TY - JOUR 
A1 - Moya Navarro, Daniel
AU - Heras Ibáñez, Jorge de las
AU - Ferrandis Gotor, Pablo
AU - Herranz Sanz, José María
AU - Martínez Sánchez, Juan José
T1 - Fire resilience and forest restoration in Mediterranean fire-prone areas
Y1 - 2011
SN - 2172-0436
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1694
AB - 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 pinaster Aiton have been catalogued as pirophylous species. They are not promoted by fire (Martínez-Sánchez et al., 1996) but show colonizer behavior in the absence of fire (Ayari et al., 2011). The main four components of resilience are elasticity (recovery rate), amplitude (fire severity inducing no recovery), malleability (differences from the previous state) and damping (oscillation of ecosystem parameters). If the plant community does not recover after disturbance or natural characteristics do not achieve forest planning objectives, restoration and stand improvement through forest management are important choices for lowering the aridity risk.
KW - Producción Vegetal
KW - Wildfire
KW - Seed germination
KW - Soil seed bank
KW - Pinus halepensis Mill
KW - Pinus pinaster Aiton
KW - Cistus
KW - Post-fire Management
KW - Fire ecology
KW - Incendios forestales
KW - Germinación de semillas
KW - Banco de semillas
KW - Gestión después de un incendio
KW - Ecología del fuego
KW - Pino carrasco
KW - Pino resinero
KW - Pino marítimo
KW - Jara
LA - eng
PB - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
ER -