Effects of salvage logging on soil properties and vegetation recovery in a fire-affected Mediterranean forest: A two year monitoring research

Post-Fire Salvage Logging Imposes a New Disturbance that Retards Succession: The Case of Bryophyte Communities in a Macaronesian Laurel Forest

“…Overall, a main driver of the changes in species composition is the removal of the logs (salvage logging) through the effect that this has upon resources or habitat and microhabitat characteristics [4,13,14,20,[79][80][81]. Moreover, post-fire salvage logging promotes community assemblages characteristic of open habitats across other different taxonomic groups, whereas the presence of logs promote communities closer to those of mature forests (e.g., [20,73,76,78,82]).…”

“…In short, the role of snags and other CWD as biological legacies that promote biodiversity, regeneration, and ecosystem functioning has been increasingly demonstrated by studies performed mostly in the last couple of decades. These studies overall provide evidence for the need of retaining part of these structures as key elements for habitat restoration and biodiversity conservation [3,[12][13][14][15][16].…”

“…The reasons for conducting SL are diverse, but are largely related either to the recovery of economic capital still available in the remaining wood soon after the disturbance, or to facilitate future restoration or reforestation [19,20]. Nonetheless, this management action has been sharply criticized in the last two decades, and a growing number of studies have showed that salvage logging may seriously compromise ecosystem regeneration [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]21,22]. It is becoming increasingly clear that the negative effect of SL is related to its impact on habitat structure and components, which is linked primarily to the amount of biomass removed and the simplification of habitat structure [9,10,12,23].…”

Phenolics decontamination of olive mill wastewater using onion solid by-products homogenate

“…A major obstacle in the commercial application of peroxidase for environmental purposes is its limited stability and reusability, which means that a continuous supply of a large amount of fresh enzyme is required. Enzyme immobilization is one of the strategies known to increase enzyme stability and reusability [9,10]. For example, the results showed that after the use of immobilized bitter ground peroxidase (BGP), a maximum removal of phenols with the presence of hydrogen peroxide was observed.…”

Hemiboreālo mežu degšanas vēsture un kokaudžu atjaunošanās degumos = Forest fire history and post-fire regeneration patterns in hemiboreal forests

“…In addition, SL alters the ground microtopography (Waldron et al 2013), nutrient cycling (Smith et al 2012), and successional pathways of natural regeneration (Beghin et al 2010). Studies have shown that SL can have a negative effect on water quality (Smith et al 2012), soil (Page-Dumroese et al 2006García-Orenes et al 2017;Malvar et al 2017;), natural regeneration (Beghin et al 2010;Boucher et al 2014;, and biodiversity . Similarly, SL can negatively affect ecosystem services (Lindenmayer and Noss 2006) and increases carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (Serrano-Ortiz et al 2011).…”