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Description
The use of databases to answer complex environmental questions has enabled a quantitative and qualitative leap on our knowledge on global change. One of the terrestrial processes that best articulates the impacts of global change is fire. It is a phenomenon that depends on climatic conditions and fuel availability so burning captures processes such as global warming or rural abandonment. The study of fire over long time scales has proven to be a useful tool for defining conservation strategies today, which implies combining the knowledge we have on fire, but also the knowledge available on climate and vegetation. In this sense, the use of databases that allow the combination of all of them is essential. In this talk I will give some examples, from past, present and future studies that demonstrate the power of the combined use of palaeoscientific databases from different proxies to access global knowledge that is translational to conservation policies.
