Agroforestry mosaics shape wildfires

In the Euro-Mediterranean countries, landscape management strategies aim to increase land-cover and fuel-structure heterogeneity by preserving or promoting the ancient agroforestry mosaics in which wildfire spread more slowly, burn with less intensity, and are less costly to suppress. We can observe how historical agriculture and silvopastoral practices have shaped the landscapes of the western Pyrenees (Spain).