CALORIFIC VALUES AND FLAMMABILITY OF FOREST SPECIES IN GALICIA - CONTINENTAL HIGH MOUNTAINOUS AND HUMID ATLANTIC ZONES

Calorific value, flammability and chemical composition during the seas ons of the year for the different forest species which make Lip the wo odland map of two zones, Devesa da Rogueira (continental high mountain ous zone) and As Neves (humid atlantic zone), situated in Galicia (Spa in), are reported The species characteristic of the zones are: Sorbus aucuparia L., Acer pseudoplatanus L., Taxus baccata L., Fagus sylvatic a L., Quercus robur L. and Castanea sativa Miller. in Devesa da Roguei ra (Orense), and Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertner., Betula celtiberica L. , Prunus avium (L.) L., Fraxinus excelsior L., Laurus nobilis L. and S alix Atrocinera L., in As Neves (La Coruna). The calorific values were measured by static bomb calorimetry and the flammability using a meth od proposed by Valette. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.