Fire resilience and forest restoration in Mediterranean fire-prone areas
Author
Moya Navarro, Daniel; Heras Ibáñez, Jorge de las; Ferrandis Gotor, Pablo; Herranz Sanz, José María; Martínez Sánchez, Juan JoséResearch Group
Hortofloricultura MediterráneaKnowledge Area
Producción VegetalPublication date
2011Publisher
Universidad Politécnica de CartagenaBibliographic Citation
MOYA NAVARRO, Daniel et al. Fire resilience and forest restoration in Mediterranean fire-prone areas. Technology and Knowledge Transfer e-Bulletin, vol.2, no.3, 2011. ISSN 2172-0436Peer review
SiKeywords
WildfireSeed germination
Soil seed bank
Pinus halepensis Mill
Pinus pinaster Aiton
Cistus
Post-fire Management
Fire ecology
Incendios forestales
Germinación de semillas
Banco de semillas
Gestión después de un incendio
Ecología del fuego
Pino carrasco
Pino resinero
Pino marítimo
Jara
Abstract
Mediterranean ecosystems are of importance worldwide because they are biodiversity hot spots. In these areas, forest fires have been modelling the landscape since the Pleistocene Era. Consequently, plant communities inhabiting this fire-prone area have developed adaptive traits (e.g. serotiny) or life-history strategies to persist, exhibiting a high degree of survival or recovering after frequent fires or other disturbances, such as severe drought. In general, this implies high resilience, but in recent years aridity and fire dynamics have been increasing due to global climate change, which has strongly affected the Mediterranean Basin. These changes are inducing higher risks of soil loss and lower plant productivity in the long term, which influences the resilience of the community present before the disturbance. Some species are pirophytes (fire adapted), such as Cistus sp. (Ferrandis et al., 1999a), or pirophyles (fire dependant). Pinus halepensis Mill. and some populations of Pinus ...
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