摘要
In the last two decades, unprecedented changes have taken place in the frequency and severity of wildfires;in different regions of the world, some fires were even classified as megafires. Although there are studies about the diverse effects of fire, which have made significant theoretical contributions, a comprehensive review of the changes in fire research is required to understand worldwide patterns, particularly in those countries where fire activity is on the rise, such is the case of Mexico. The objective of this study was to analyze the trends in the research on wildfires published in Mexico and worldwide over a 40-year timescale. For this purpose, the Web of Science database, bibliometric tools, and the keywords TI = Forest fire* OR TI = Wildfire* were used to extract as many articles as possible related to fires from 1980 to 2020, without being restricted to those studies whose title included any of the variants of the keywords. There were 8458 publications about fires in the vegetation cover, with a notable increase in the frequency of studies in the previous decade;52% of the studies were concentrated in five countries and 20% of the articles focused on the study of different aspects of the soil. Mexico ranks thirteenth in volume of scientific production and studies in the country have focused mainly on the description of the quantitative relationship between the size of the affected area and the number of occurrences in the landscape, meanwhile, studies on fires and the consequences on the biotic interactions have been little explored.
In the last two decades, unprecedented changes have taken place in the frequency and severity of wildfires;in different regions of the world, some fires were even classified as megafires. Although there are studies about the diverse effects of fire, which have made significant theoretical contributions, a comprehensive review of the changes in fire research is required to understand worldwide patterns, particularly in those countries where fire activity is on the rise, such is the case of Mexico. The objective of this study was to analyze the trends in the research on wildfires published in Mexico and worldwide over a 40-year timescale. For this purpose, the Web of Science database, bibliometric tools, and the keywords TI = Forest fire* OR TI = Wildfire* were used to extract as many articles as possible related to fires from 1980 to 2020, without being restricted to those studies whose title included any of the variants of the keywords. There were 8458 publications about fires in the vegetation cover, with a notable increase in the frequency of studies in the previous decade;52% of the studies were concentrated in five countries and 20% of the articles focused on the study of different aspects of the soil. Mexico ranks thirteenth in volume of scientific production and studies in the country have focused mainly on the description of the quantitative relationship between the size of the affected area and the number of occurrences in the landscape, meanwhile, studies on fires and the consequences on the biotic interactions have been little explored.
作者
Daniel Alejandro Cadena Zamudio
Betsabé Ruiz Guerra
José Luis Arispe Vázquez
José German Flores Garnica
Leslie Carnero Avilés
Rocío Toledo Aguilar
David Heriberto Noriega Cantú
Adriana Antonio Bautista
Juan Mayo Hernandez
David Castillo Quiroz
Norma Tolama Nava
Roger Guevara Hernández
Daniel Alejandro Cadena Zamudio;Betsabé Ruiz Guerra;José Luis Arispe Vázquez;José German Flores Garnica;Leslie Carnero Avilés;Rocío Toledo Aguilar;David Heriberto Noriega Cantú;Adriana Antonio Bautista;Juan Mayo Hernandez;David Castillo Quiroz;Norma Tolama Nava;Roger Guevara Hernández(Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Iguala de la Independencia, Guerrero, México;Instituto de Ecología, A.C, Xalapa, Veracruz, México;Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Tepatitlán, Guadalajara, México;Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Delicias, Chihuahua, México;Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Saltillo, Coahuila, México;Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Saltillo, Coahuila, México)