Burn Severity and Post-Fire Erosion Control Affect Post-Fire Woody Plant Recruitment

Booth, Emily Mary; Creacy, Greg

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“…After fires, soils tend to become exposed and susceptible to erosion [40]. High radiation, low water retention/penetration, and high-water stress can severely limit germination and re-growth of natural vegetation post-fire [41,42]. Thus, mycorrhizal fungi can be a key element for the restoration process by increasing plant performance in stressful conditions, improving water and nutrient uptake [43], and improving biological [44] and physicochemical characteristics of the soil [45,46].…”

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Assessing the Importance of Native Mycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Tree Establishment after Wildfires

Átala

Reyes

Molina‐Montenegro

2023

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The Chilean matorral is a heavily threatened Mediterranean-type ecosystem due to human-related activities such as anthropogenic fires. Mycorrhizal fungi may be the key microorganisms to help plants cope with environmental stress and improve the restoration of degraded ecosystems. However, the application of mycorrhizal fungi in the restoration of the Chilean matorral is limited because of insufficient local information. Consequently, we assessed the effect of mycorrhizal inoculation on the survival and photosynthesis at set intervals for two years after a fire event in four native woody plant species, namely: Peumus boldus, Quillaja saponaria, Cryptocarya alba, and Kageneckia oblonga, all dominant species of the matorral. Additionally, we assessed the enzymatic activity of three enzymes and macronutrient in the soil in mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plants. The results showed that mycorrhizal inoculation increased survival in all studied species after a fire and increased photosynthesis in all, but not in P. boldus. Additionally, the soil associated with mycorrhizal plants had higher enzymatic activity and macronutrient levels in all species except in Q. saponaria, in which there was no significant mycorrhization effect. The results suggest that mycorrhizal fungi could increase the fitness of plants used in restoration initiatives after severe disturbances such as fires and, consequently, should be considered for restoration programs of native species in threatened Mediterranean ecosystems.

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Assessing the Importance of Native Mycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Tree Establishment after Wildfires

Átala

Reyes

Molina‐Montenegro

2023

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Creating Fire-Adapted Communities Through Recovery: Case Studies from the United States and Australia

Mockrin,

Schumann,

Whittaker

et al. 2022

J. of Extr. Even.

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Wildfires can be devastating for social and ecological systems, but the recovery period after wildfire presents opportunities to reduce future risk through adaptation. We use a collective case study approach to systematically compare social and ecological recovery following four major fire events in Australia and the United States: the 1998 wildfires in northeastern Florida; the 2003 Cedar fire in southern California; the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, southeastern Australia; and the 2011 Bastrop fires in Texas. Fires spurred similar policy changes, with an emphasis on education, land use planning, suppression/emergency response, and vegetation management. However, there was little information available in peer-reviewed literature about social recovery, ecological recovery was mostly studied short term, and feedbacks between social and ecological outcomes went largely unconsidered. Strategic and holistic approaches to wildfire recovery that consider linkages within and between social–ecological systems will be increasingly critical to determine if recovery leads to adaptation or recreates vulnerability.

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Burn Severity and Post-Fire Erosion Control Affect Post-Fire Woody Plant Recruitment

Cited by 2 publications

References 77 publications

Assessing the Importance of Native Mycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Tree Establishment after Wildfires

Assessing the Importance of Native Mycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Tree Establishment after Wildfires

Creating Fire-Adapted Communities Through Recovery: Case Studies from the United States and Australia

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