Fire Ecology and Post-Fire Restoration Approaches in Southern European Forest Types

Vallejo, V. Ramón; Αριανούτσου, Μαργαρίτα; Moreira, Francisco

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2208-8_5

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“…Post-fire survival of native species was high and in accordance with previous studies in our region (Miglietta 1994;Renison et al 2002;Verzino et al 2005;Gurvich et al 2005;Torres et al 2014) and other fire-prone ecosystems (Brown et al 2000;Vallejo et al 2012). Contrary to our predictions, the post-fire survival of non-native species present in the study area showed similarly high average performance with a higher variability mainly due to low survival of Ligustrum lucidum.…”

Section: Post-fire Survivalcontrasting

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Do Wildfires Promote Woody Species Invasion in a Fire-Adapted Ecosystem? Post-fire Resprouting of Native and Non-native Woody Plants in Central Argentina

Herrero

Torres

Renison

2015

Environmental Management

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We asked whether prescribed fire could be a useful management tool to reduce invasion by non-native plants in an ecosystem where native plants are supposed to be adapted to fires. Specifically, we compare the post-fire resprouting response of native and non-native woody species in Chaco Serrano forest of central Argentina. The measurements were carried out in five burnt areas where we selected ten native and seven non-native species. Our response variables were (1) post-fire survival, (2) types of resprouts, and (3) the growth of the resprouts. Our main results show that one year after the fire, survivals of native and non-native species were 0.84 and 0.89, respectively, with variances in survival seven times smaller in the native species group. Type of resprout was also less variable in native species, while growth of the resprouts was similar in native and non-native groups. We interpret that in most cases, the burning a forest with mixed native and non-native plants through prescribed fires will not differentially stop the invasion by non-native woody species even in ecosystems which are presumed to be relatively resistant to fires such as our study area.

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Section: Post-fire Survivalcontrasting

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Do Wildfires Promote Woody Species Invasion in a Fire-Adapted Ecosystem? Post-fire Resprouting of Native and Non-native Woody Plants in Central Argentina

Herrero

Torres

Renison

2015

Environmental Management

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“…Several post-fire restoration techniques are used in Mediterranean Europe and their success depends on site specific conditions [171][172][173]. Some of the main actions used in forest restoration are intended to achieve compositional and structural conditions resistant and resilient to fire [174].…”

Section: Forest Fire Prevention/restorationmentioning

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Multifaceted Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Drylands: A Review

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Biophysical restoration or rehabilitation measures of land have demonstrated to be effective in many scientific projects and small-scale environmental experiments. However circumstances such as poverty, weak policies, or inefficient scientific knowledge transmission can hinder the effective upscaling of land restoration and the long term maintenance of proven sustainable use of soil and water. This may be especially worrisome in lands with harsh environmental conditions. This review covers recent efforts in landscape restoration and rehabilitation with a functional perspective aiming to simultaneously achieve ecosystem sustainability, economic efficiency, and social wellbeing. Water management and rehabilitation of ecosystem services in croplands, rangelands, forests, and coastlands are reviewed. The joint analysis of such diverse ecosystems provides a wide perspective to determine: (i) multifaceted impacts on biophysical and socio-economic factors; and (ii) elements influencing effective upscaling of sustainable land management practices. One conclusion can be highlighted: voluntary adoption is based on different pillars, i.e. external material and economic support, and spread of success information at the local scale to demonstrate the multidimensional benefits of sustainable land management. For the successful upscaling of land management, more attention must be paid to the social system from the first involvement stage, up to the long term maintenance.

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“…De manera general, para estimar la severidad de un incendio a partir de imágenes de satélite se emplean métodos estandarizados basados en índices espectrales, tales como el índice de vegetación de diferencia normalizada (NDVI) y el cociente normalizado de área quemada (NBR) (Chuvieco, 1999). El efecto del incendio sobre el ecosistema está íntimamente ligado a la severidad de quemado (Vallejo et al, 2012;González et al, 2016), siendo mayor el daño producido en zonas vulnerables con baja calidad de sitio, como zonas áridas y semiáridas de clima mediterráneo (Hedo et al, 2014). Este daño ligado a la alta severidad de quemado puede incluso afectar a los flujos energéticos instantáneos (Sánchez et al, 2009) y a su resiliencia (Paula et al, 2009;Tessler et al, 2014).…”

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Ajuste de metodologías para evaluar severidad de quemado en zonas semiáridas (SE peninsular): incendio Donceles 2012

Gómez-Sánchez¹,

Heras

Lucas‐Borja

2017

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<p>Post-fire management should be based on a proper evaluation of fire damage (burn severity), mainly for Large Fires (>500 ha). Several methodologies have been developed based on remote sensing information validated with fieldwork. The most widespread techniques was the assessment of fire severity indices obtained from remote sensing. It allow a quick assessment of large areas at affordable costs, although the analysis of soil burn severity and the degree of agreement with the ground truth is not fully reliable. Our study case was the Donceles fire (summer 2012, Hellín, Albacete). The post-fire restoration planning, emergency actions, was based on cartographic information of burn severity. To optimize results in a short time and low budget, we applied methodologies in a similar way other similar fires in the Mediterranean peninsular area. We assessed burn severity by using spectral indices (NDVI, dNBR, RdNBR and RBR) and images from Landsat-7 (including banded) and Deimos-1. For each index, we developed both supervised and unsupervised classifications, using field data as training areas. The highest overall reliability values were found for dNBR (79%) and NBR (71%), obtaining low values with RdNBR. In all cases, the reliability was higher using the supervised classification, so using real-ground data to identify the categories of severity to be discriminated. We conclude the need to extend fire studies in our area to improve the reliability of the fire severity assessment obtained from spectral indexes, thus establishing a protocol of data collection and standard methodology of calculation adapted to the characteristics of the region.</p>

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Fire Ecology and Post-Fire Restoration Approaches in Southern European Forest Types

Cited by 60 publications

References 84 publications

Do Wildfires Promote Woody Species Invasion in a Fire-Adapted Ecosystem? Post-fire Resprouting of Native and Non-native Woody Plants in Central Argentina

Do Wildfires Promote Woody Species Invasion in a Fire-Adapted Ecosystem? Post-fire Resprouting of Native and Non-native Woody Plants in Central Argentina

Multifaceted Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Drylands: A Review

Ajuste de metodologías para evaluar severidad de quemado en zonas semiáridas (SE peninsular): incendio Donceles 2012

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