Belchior, Isabela Braga

de Carvalho, Luis Marcelo Tavares

Ferreira, Flávio Carvalho

Gomes, Samantha Ramos

Motta, Marcelo Souza

Pereira, Raphaela Soares de Souza

Tomzhinki, Gustavo Wanderley

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Occurrence and recurrence of forest fires 
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 10(1): 72, 2020 Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade 
 
 
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Occurrence and recurrence of forest fires in Itatiaia National Park 
between 2008 and 2016 
 
 
Isabela Braga Belchior1*, Luis Marcelo Tavares de Carvalho1, Samantha Ramos Gomes1, 
Flávio Carvalho Ferreira1, Raphaela Soares de Souza Pereira1, Gustavo Wanderley Tomzhinki2, 
Marcelo Souza Motta2 
 
 
1 Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, Brasil 
2Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Brasil 
*e-mail: isabela_bbelchior@hotmail.com  
 
 
 
 
ABSTRACT – Some ecosystems are adapted to fire disturbances, but as fires become 
recurrent in the same area, fire can cause drastic landscape changes resulting in loss of 
biodiversity. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the occurrence and recurrence of forest 
fires for a period of 8 years in the interior and in the buffer zone of Itatiaia National Park 
(INP). The polygons of the burned areas were extracted from the INP Fire Report database. 
Since 2008, reporting polygons have been collected using GPS devices. Each polygon that 
delimits a burned area represents one occurrence. Therefore, the total number of 
occurrences in each year is represented by the number of polygons this year. The total area 
burned between 2008 and 2016 was 3435.64 hectares, corresponding to 4.3% of the study 
area. In this period, 354 occurrences were verified, and 2014 had 51 occurrences, the largest 
number found in the study. However, 2014 was not the year with the largest area hit by 
fire. The largest burned area occurred in 2010, with 1573,86 hectares. This fact can be 
explained by a single occurrence that reached 1255.11 hectares in the Campos de Altitude 
of Itatiaia upland. Inside the INP, areas with up to 5 fire recurrences that can be classified 
as anthropic fields and related to livestock use were verified. In the buffer zone, up to 6 
recurrences were found, especially the lower part of the park and the areas near the rural 
communities of the municipality of Itamonte. The map of fire recurrence plus the survey 
of the causes of forest fires and the socioeconomic needs of fire use provides important 
subsidies for the planning and execution of specific strategies aimed at the protection and 
management of protected areas. 
 
Keywords: INP, burned area, GIS 
 


Occurrence and recurrence of forest fires in Itatiaia National Park between 2008 and 2016

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Occurrence and recurrence of forest fires in Itatiaia National Park between 2008 and 2016

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