Site Implementation Plan: Macao and Gois, Portugal

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Site 1 (Caratão catchment)
4. Site 2 (Vale Torto catchment)
5. Site 3 (Camelo catchment)
6. Site 4 (Moinhos catchment)
7. Stakeholder information
8. Land use
9. Conservation measures and experimental setup
10. Monitoring activities
    1. One-off measurements
    2. Meteorological data
    3. Hydrological data
    4. Rainfall simulations
    5. Repeat-photography of ground surface
    6. Repeated measurements (2 weekly/ monthly):
    7. Agronomic activities by stakeholder
    8. Yield assessment

Yield assessment

The success of prescribed fire will be judged by the extent to which erosional losses are lower than those monitored at the wildfire site (Camelo) and the speed of return of erosion rates to pre-fire conditions. Results to date suggest that erosional losses are 1-2 orders of magnitude less at Vale Torto following prescribed fire compared with Camelo following wildfire.