Long-Term Evolution of Shrub Prescribed Burning Effects on Topsoil Organic Matter and Biological Activity in the Central Pyrenees (Ne-Spain)

Medium-Term Comparative Effects of Prescribed Burning and Mechanical Shredding on Soil Characteristics in Heathland and Shrubland Habitats: Insights from a Protected Natural Area

“…The main contributions of the study are derived from the comparison of the medium-term effects of two alternative treatments in soils of a different pH. Numerous studies have investigated how soil properties are affected by prescribed burning [19,21,33,[43][44][45][46][47][48] and mechanical treatments [49][50][51], but studies comparing different treatments are scarce [23]. Likewise, to our knowledge, no other studies have simultaneously analyzed such effects in soils of a different pH.…”

Contrasting Immediate Impact of Prescribed Fires and Experimental Summer Fires on Soil Organic Matter Quality and Microbial Properties in the Forest Floor and Mineral Soil in Mediterranean Black Pine Forest

“…Studies analysing the immediate and very short term (up to 15 days) effects of prescribed fires in some or all of these enzyme activities show inconsistent results in other ecosystems. Absence of any response (Saá et al, 1993;Fontúrbel et al, 2012;San Emeterio et al, 2016;Múgica et al, 2018) and decrease (Barreiro et al, 2010, Armas-Herrera et al, 2016Girona-García et al, 2018;Alfaro-Leranoz et al, 2023) in shrublands of N Spain and in subtropical native rangeland (Rai et al, 2023) have been reported. Differences in soil heating temperatures and soil depth sampled, in addition to the pre-fire soil properties, may partly explain the different responses observed.…”