Hollow tree fire is a useless forest fire category

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F18%3A78405" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/18:78405 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/forj-2017-0028" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/forj-2017-0028</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/forj-2017-0028" target="_blank" >10.1515/forj-2017-0028</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hollow tree fire is a useless forest fire category

Original language description

In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the term hollow tree fire was first used in a publication in 1956 without being well defined and was then uncritically used in other publications. The term refers to fires occurring in the rotted, inner trunks of trees. The main aim of the current study was to determine whether the term should be considered a useful category for the statistical analysis of forest fires. The nature and causes of fires from 2006-2015 were assessed by performing a detailed analysis of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic (FRS CR) database. The database included a total of 7,256 fires in the natural environment, but only 18 of these were hollow tree fires. Most hollow tree fires were initiated by human carelessness, and only three were initiated by lightning. Based on our critical consideration of fire attributes, hollow tree fires should not be considered a category of forest fire. The presence of rotten trees is, however, a serious problem because such trees represent long-l

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1620454" target="_blank" >QJ1620454: Water resources in the landscape in relation to forest fires</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Lesnicky časopis (Forestry Journal)

ISSN

0323-1046

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

67-78

UT code for WoS article

000453420100007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85042085742