Research

* Me as first author, last author or/and corresponding author.

1. Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Fernández-García, V., Cerrillo, A., Marqués, A., Cascallana, G., Calvo, L. (2024). FIREMAP: Cloud-based software to automate the estimation of wildfire-induced ecological impacts and recovery processes using remote sensing techniques. Ecological Informatics 81, 102591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102591 

2. * Fernández-García, V., Franquesa, M., Kull, C.A. (2024). Madagascar’s burned area from Sentinel-2 imagery (2016–2022): four times higher than from lower resolution sensors. Science of the Total Environment 914, 169929 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169929  

3. * Fernández-García, V., Alonso-González, A. (2023). Global patterns and dynamics of burned area and burn severity. Remote Sensing 15, 3401.https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15133401 

4. * Fernández-García, V., Kull, C.A. (2023). Refining historical burned area data from satellite observations. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 120, 103-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103350 

5. Beltrán-Marcos, D., Calvo, L., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Suárez-Seoane, S., (2023) Wildland-urban interface typologies prone to high severity fires in Spain. Science of the Total Environment 894, 165000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165000 

6. Beltrán-Marcos, D., Suárez-Seoane, S., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2023) Relevance of UAV and sentinel-2 data fusion for estimating topsoil organic carbon after forest fire. Geoderma 430,  116290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116290 

7. * Compains, L., Fernández-Manso, A., Fernández-García, V. (2022) Optimizing spectral libraries from Landsat imagery for the analysis of habitat richness using MESMA. Forests 13, 1824. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111824 

8. * Fernández-García, V., Beltrán-Marcos, D., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2022) Predicting potential wildfire severity across Southern Europe with global data sources. Science of the Total Environment 829, 154729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154729 

9. Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Suárez-Seoane, S., Fernandes, P., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Calvo, L. (2022) Pre-fire aboveground biomass, estimated from LiDAR, spectral and field inventory data, as a major driver of burn severity in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) ecosystems. Forest Ecosystems 9, 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs.2022.100022 

10. * Alonso-González, A., Fernández-García, V. (2021) MOSEV: a global burn severity database from MODIS (2000–2020). Earth System Science Data 13, 1925–1938. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1925-2021 

11. * Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Suárez-Seoane, S., Calvo, L. (2021) Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (MESMA) Applied to the Study of Habitat Diversity in the Fine-Grained Landscapes of the Cantabrian Mountains. Remote Sens. 13: 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050979 

12. Beltrán-Marcos, D., Suárez-Seoane, S., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Pinto, R., García-Llamas, P., Calvo, L. (2021) Mapping Soil Burn Severity at Very High Spatial Resolution from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Forests 12, 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12020179 

13. Pérez-Rodríguez, L.A., Quintano, C., García-Llamas, P., Fernández-García, V., Taboada, A., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Marcos, E., Suárez-Seoane, S., Calvo, L., Fernández-Manso, A. (2019). Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for forest damage monitoring in south-western Europe. Proceedings  of SPIE 11130, 111300K. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2531265 

14. García-Llamas, P., Suárez-Seoane, S., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Taboada, A., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2019) Evaluation and comparison of Landsat 8, Sentinel-2 and Deimos-1 remote sensing indices for assessing burn severity in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 80, 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2019.04.006 

15. García-Llamas, P., Suárez-Seoane S., Taboada A., Fernández-García V., Fernández-Guisuraga J.M., Fernández-Manso A., Quintano C., Marcos E., Calvo L.(2019) Assessment of the influence of biophysical properties related to fuel conditions on fire severity using remote sensing techniques: a case study on a large fire in NW Spain. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28, 512-520. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18156

16. Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Calvo, L., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E.,Taboada, A., Suárez-Seoane, S. (2019) Efficiency of remote sensing tools for post-fire management along a climatic gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 433, 553-562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.045 

17. Quintano, C., Fernández-Manso, A., García-Llamas, P., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Suárez-Seoane, S., Calvo, L. (2018) Thermally enhanced spectral indices to discriminate burn severity in Mediterranean forest ecosystems. Proceedings of SPIE 10767,107670. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2319851 

18. Marcos, E., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Valbuena, L., Tárrega, R., Luis-Calabuig, E., Calvo, L. (2018) Evaluation of Composite Burn Index and Land Surface Temperature for Assessing Soil Burn Severity in Mediterranean Fire-Prone Pine Ecosystems. Forests, 9, 494. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9080494 

19. * Fernández-García, V., Quintano, C., Taboada, A., Marcos, E., Calvo, L., Fernández-Manso, A. (2018) Remote Sensing Applied to the Study of Fire Regime Attributes and Their Influence on Post-Fire Greenness Recovery in Pine Ecosystems. Remote Sensing 10, 733. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050733

20. * Fernández-García, V., Santamarta, M., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2018) Burn severity metrics in fire-prone pine ecosystems along a climatic gradient using Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 206, 205-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.12.029 

21. Quintano, C., Fernández-Manso, A., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2015) Changes on albedo after a large forest fire in Mediterranean ecosystems. Proceedings of SPIE 9610, 961018. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187346 

1. * Fernández-García, V., Centeno, M.L., Calvo, L. (2023) Management strategies to improve the ecosystem service provision of Gentiana lutea L. in the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 33, 100454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmap.2022.100454 

2. * Fernández-García, V., Beltrán-Marcos, D., Calvo, L. (2023). Building patterns and fuel features drive wildfire severity in wildland-urban interfaces in Southern Europe. Landscape and Urban Planning 231, 104646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104646 

3. * Huerta, S., Marcos, E., Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L. (2022). Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem. Fire Ecology 18, 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-022-00156-1

4. * Huerta, S., Marcos,E., Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L. (2022) Short-term effects of burn severity on ecosystem multifunctionality in the northwest Iberian Peninsula. Science of the Total Environment 844, 157193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157193 

5. * Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Huerta, S., Calvo, L. (2021) Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire. Forest Ecoystems 8, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-021-00295-y 

6. Huerta, S., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E.; Suárez-Seoane, S., Calvo, L. (2021) Physiological and Regenerative Plant Traits Explain Vegetation Regeneration under Different Severity Levels in Mediterranean Fire-Prone Ecosystems. Forests 12, 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12020149 

7. Huerta, S., Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L., Marcos, E. (2020) Soil Resistance to Burn Severity in Different Forest Ecosystems in the Framework of a Wildfire. Forests 11, 773. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11070773 

8. * Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Fulé, P.Z., Reyes, O., Santana, V.M., Calvo, L. (2020) Fire regimes shape diversity and traits of vegetation under different climatic conditions. Science of the Total Environment 716, 137137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137137 

9. * Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Reyes, O., Calvo, L. (2020) Do Fire Regime Attributes Affect Soil Biochemical Properties in the Same Way under Different Environmental Conditions? Forests 11, 274. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11030274

10. * Fernández-García, V., Fulé, P.Z., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2019) The role of fire frequency and severity on the regeneration of Mediterranean serotinous pines under different environmental conditions. Forest Ecology and Management 444, 59-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.040

11. * Fernández-García V., Marcos E., Fernández-Guisuraga J.M., Taboada A., Suárez-Seoane S., Calvo L. (2019) Impact of burn severity on soil properties in a Pinus pinaster ecosystem immediately after fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28, 354-364. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18103 

12. * Fernández-García, V., Miesel, J., Baeza, M.J., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2019). Wildfire effects on soil properties in fire-prone pine ecosystems: Indicators of burn severity legacy over the medium term after fire. Applied Soil Ecology 135, 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2018.12.002

13. García-Llamas P., Suárez-Seoane S., Taboada A., Fernández-Manso A., Quintano C., Fernández-García V., Fernández-Guisuraga J.M., Marcos E., Calvo L. (2019) Environmental drivers of fire severity in extreme fire events that affect Mediterranean pine forest ecosystems. Forest Ecology and Management 433, 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.051 

14. Taboada, A., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2018) Interactions between large high-severity fires and salvage logging on a short return interval reduce the regrowth of fire-prone serotinous forests. Forest Ecology and Management 414, 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.02.013 

1. * Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L. (2023) Landscape Implications of Contemporary Abandonment of Extensive Sheep Grazing in a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. Land 12, 780. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040780 

2. * Rivero, L, Calvo, L., Fernández-García, V. (2022) Importance of grazing in the conservation of the traditional landscape of the Cantabrian Mountains. Pirineos 177, e074. https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2022.177008 

3. Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Tárrega, R., Marcos, E., Valbuena, L., Pinto, R., Monte, P., Beltrán, D., Huerta, S., Calvo, L. (2022) Transhumant Sheep Grazing Enhances Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Productive Mountain Grasslands: A Case Study in the Cantabrian Mountains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 861611. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.861611 

1. Phelps, L. et al. (2023). Developing transdisciplinary research on Madagascar’s grassy biomes to support resilience in tropical ecosystems and livelihoods. Under review in Ecological Monographs.

2. * Francos, M., Sánchez-García, C., Corvacho-Ganahin, O. Fernández-García, V. (2022) Minor soil elements in contrasting profiles in an area frequently affected by fire, NE Iberian Peninsula. Fire 189. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5060189 

3. Ren, H., Lv, C., Fernández-García, V., Juang, B., Ding, W. (2021) Biochar and PGPR amendments influence soil enzyme activities and nutrient concentrations in a eucalyptus seedling plantation. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 11, 1865–1874. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-019-00571-6

4. * Francos, M., Sánchez-García, C., Girona-García, A., Fernández-García, V. (2021) Influence of topography on sediment dynamics and soil chemical properties in a Mediterranean forest historically affected by wildfires: NE Iberian Peninsula. Environmental Earth Sciences 80, 436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09731-2 

5. Ren, H., Qin, X., Huang, B., Fernández-García, V., Chengqun, L. (2020) Responses of soil enzyme activities and plant growth in a eucalyptus seedling plantation amended with bacterial fertilizers. Archives of Microbiology 202, 1381–1396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-01849-4 

6. Ren, H., Huang, B., Fernández-García, V., Miesel, J., Yan, L., Lv, C. (2020) Biochar and Rhizobacteria Amendments Improve Several Soil Properties and Bacterial Diversity. Microorganisms 8, 502. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8040502 

Marcos, E., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Suárez-Seoane, S., Calvo, L. (2023) Fire severity as a determinant of the socioeconomic impact of wildfires. In: Comino, J., Salvati, L. (Eds) Fire effects on Earth System: Society and regional issues. 153-166.ISBN: 978-3-031-50445-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50446-4_12 

* Fernández-García, V., Andries, D.M., Fernández-Manso, A. (2023) Post-fire recovery of Pinus halepensis, P. pinaster, and P. brutia forests: identifying key drivers from a biophysical approach. (ASTI Book Series - In press)

* Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L., Suárez-Seoane, S., Marcos, E. (2023) Remote Sensing in Forest Fire Monitoring and Post-fire Damage Analysis. Remote Sensing- MDPI. 256pp. ISBN: 978-3-0365-8882-7 https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-8883-4 

* Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L., Suárez-Seoane, S., Marcos, E. (2023) Editorial: Remote Sensing Advances in Fire Science: From Fire Predictors to Post-Fire Monitoring. Remote Sensing 20, 4930. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15204930 

Fernández-Manso, A., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Cerrillo, A., Cascallana, G., Calvo, L. (2022) FIREMAP: Software avanzado para la toma de decisiones en la gestión postincendio basado en tecnologías satelitales. In: Ruiz, L.A., Estornell, J., González, M., Álvarez, J. (Eds.) Teledetección para una agricultura sostenible en la era del Big Data. 259-262.  ISBN: 978-84-9769-382-0

Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Suárez-Seoane, S., Fernández García, V., Beltrán Marcos, D., Huerta, S., Pinto, R., Turiel, S., Marcos, E., Tárrega, R., Valbuena, L., Ansola, G., Sáenz de Miera, L., Taboada, A., Calvo, L. (2022) Evaluación de la resiliencia forestal al fuego mediante la inversión de modelos de transferencia radiativa a partir de imágenes de satélite. Libro de actas del 8º Congreso Forestal Español. ISBN: 978-84-941695-6-4.

Beltrán-Marcos, D., Suárez-Seoane, S., Marcos, E., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-García, V., Pinto, R., Calvo, L. (2021) Identificación de indicadores visuales de severidad en el suelo post- incendio a través de imágenes UAV. In: El suelo: clave para una gestión ambiental sostenible en un escenario de cambio global. Libro de resúmenes del IX Simposio Nacional sobre Control de la Degradación y Recuperación de Suelos. 379-382. ISBN: 978-84-18177-09-5

Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L. (2019) Índices espectrales Sentinel-2 para discriminación de severidad de quemado. In:  Ruiz,L. A.,  Estornel, J., Calle, A., Antuña-Sánchez, J.C. (Eds.) Teledetección: hacia una visión global del cambio climático. 143-146. ISBN: 978-84-1320-038-5

* Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2015) Elaboración de mapas de recurrencia de incendios forestales en la Sierra del Teleno utilizando imágenes Landsat (1978-2014). In: Bustamante, J.M., Díaz-Delgado, R., Aragonés, D., Afán, I., García, D. (Eds.) Teledetección: Humedales y Espacios Protegidos. 145-148. ISBN: 978-84-60817260

Fernández-Manso, A., Fernández-García, V., Quintano, C., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2015) ECartografía de recurrencia-severidad en grandes incendios forestales utilizando técnicas de teledetección. In: Bustamante, J.M., Díaz-Delgado, R., Aragonés, D., Afán, I., García, D. (Eds.) Teledetección: Humedales y Espacios Protegidos. 121-124. ISBN: 978-84-60817260

* Fernández-García, V., Calvo, L., Suárez-Seoane, S., Marcos, E. (2023) Editorial: Wildfire severity and forest soils: impacts and post-fire restoration strategies to mitigate climate change. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 6, 120341. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1203411 

Marcos, E., Huerta, S., Fernández-García, V.,  Prieto, I., Pinto, R., Ansola, G., Sáenz-de-Miera, L., Calvo, L. (2022) Mulching treatments favour the recovery of ecosystem multifunctionality after a large wildfire in Northwest Spain. In: Viegas, D.X., Ribeiro, L.M. (Eds.) Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022. 1234-1238. ISBN: 978-989-26-2297-2

Calvo, L., Huerta, S., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Monte, P., Tárrega, R., Valbuena, L., Taboada, A., Turiel, S., Marcos, E., Suárez-Seoane, S. (2022) The loss of ecosystem multifunctionality in Pinus pinaster forests as one of the main footprints of large wildfires. In: Viegas, D.X., Ribeiro, L.M. (Eds.) Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022. 1345-1350. ISBN: 978-989-26-2297-2

Huerta, S., Calvo, L., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E. (2022) Efectos de las medidas de restauración post-incendio sobre las propiedades del suelo en ecosistemas dominados por Pinus sylvestris L. Libro de actas del 8º Congreso Forestal Español. ISBN: 978-84-941695-6-4

Huerta, S., Calvo, L., Fernández-García, V., Marcos, E. (2021) Efectos de las medidas de restauración después de incendios forestales en comunidades de matorral propensas al fuego. In: El suelo: clave para una gestión ambiental sostenible en un escenario de cambio global. Libro de resúmenes del IX Simposio Nacional sobre Control de la Degradación y Recuperación de Suelos. 407-410. ISBN: 978-84-18177-09-5

* Fernández-García, V., Beltrán-Marcos, D., Pinto-Prieto, R., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Calvo, L. (2019) Uso de técnicas de teledetección para determinar la relación entre la historia de incendios y la severidad del fuego. In:  Ruiz,L. A.,  Estornel, J., Calle, A., Antuña-Sánchez, J.C. (Eds.) Teledetección: hacia una visión global del cambio climático. 135-138. ISBN: 978-84-1320-038-5

Calvo, L., Tárrega, R., Valbuena, L., Marcos, E., Taboada, A., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Fernández-Manso, A., Quintano, C., de Luis, E., Reyes, O., Baeza, M.J., Suárez-Seoane, S. (2018). Climatic conditions and fire regime affect vegetation recovery after large wildfires in Pinus forest ecosystems. In: Viegas D. X. (Ed.) Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018. 209-217. ISBN: 978-989-26-16-506

Marcos, E., Fernández-García, V., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Quintano, C., Calvo, L. (2018) Soil resilience under different scenarios of fire recurrence and severity in Pinus forest ecosystems affected by large wildfires. In: Viegas D. X. (Ed.) Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018. 288-296. ISBN: 978-989-26-16-506

* Fernández-García, V., Baeza, M.J., Santana, V.M., Tárrega, R., Valbuena, L., Taboada, A., Luis-Calabuig, E., Fernández-Guisuraga, J.M., Suárez-Seoane, S., Marcos, E., Calvo, L. (2017) ¿Son diferentes los rasgos biológicos de las plantas en relación con la severidad de incendios en pinares propensos al fuego? Libro de actas del 7º Congreso Forestal Español. ISBN: 978-84-941695-2-6

Tárrega, R., Fernández-García, V., Luis-Calabuig, E., Marcos, E., Taboada, A., Valbuena, L., Calvo, L. (2017) Efectos de la severidad del incendio en la recuperación de Pinus pinaster. Libro de actas del 7º Congreso Forestal Español. ISBN: 978-84-941695-2-6