Postfire Ecosystem Restoration

Vallejo, V. Ramón; Alloza, J.A.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-410434-1.00012-9

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“…The main changes among treatments were associated with resprouter species, which is a common pattern after wildfire (Clarke et al., 2013). As pointed out by Vallejo and Alloza, (2015), plant resprouting is a trait of paramount relevance in fire‐prone environments in that it is highly related to plant persistence and regeneration after fires.…”

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Changes in ecosystem properties after post‐fire management strategies in wildfire‐affected Mediterranean forests

Lucas‐Borja

Delgado‐Baquerizo

Muñoz‐Rojas

et al. 2021

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Forest are highly vulnerable to global change drivers, such as an increase in wildfire events. Learning more about how and why different post‐fire management strategies regulate the ability of forest ecosystem properties (e.g. plant diversity and function) to simultaneously recover after wildfire and provide multiple ecosystem functions is of critical importance. This study aims to evaluate how unburned, burned managed and burned unmanaged plots regulate the responses of multiple forest ecosystem properties (e.g. plant diversity, nutrient cycling, soil carbon stocks, water regulation, decomposition and wood production) and overall multifunctionality to wildfires. In September 2017, we selected two post‐fire management strategies in a 3‐km2 watershed previously affected by a wildfire in July 2012: contour‐felled log debris (CFD), log erosion barriers area (LEB), and also unburned and unmanaged plots (BNA). We randomly distributed 12 plots among the three post‐fire management strategies (three plots per treatment) and unburned. The results showed that multiple forest ecosystem properties were significantly affected by wildfire and that specific post‐fire management treatment (e.g. LEB and CFD) can be used to efficiently support plant diversity and ecosystem functioning. Our results revealed that the general indicators of ecosystem functions decreased in Mediterranean forests after wildfires and post‐fire management strategies (LEB and CFD) significantly helped to recover the ecosystems’ short‐term community‐level properties and ecosystem functions (5 years after a wildfire event) to pre‐fire levels. Synthesis and applications. These findings demonstrate that multiple ecosystem functions are affected by wildfires in Mediterranean forests and show that post‐fire management treatments can promote multifunctionality and plant diversity. Our results unfold the potential of log erosion barriers (LEB) and contour‐felled log debris (CFD) as effective strategies for recovering community‐level properties and forest functions in the short term.

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Changes in ecosystem properties after post‐fire management strategies in wildfire‐affected Mediterranean forests

Lucas‐Borja

Delgado‐Baquerizo

Muñoz‐Rojas

et al. 2021

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…Third, studying how affected people understand and evaluate a wildfire is needed to better understand the social consequences of a disaster at the local level, for those living in the affected area, but also for wider issues of their trust towards involved organizations and the general forest sector (Carroll et al 2004;Abrams et al 2015;Dickinson et al 2015;Vallejo and Alloza 2015). A forest fire, and how it is evaluated afterwards, may influence public attitudes towards forestry, in turn, generating indirect consequences, such as providing incentives for modified forest practices, regulatory changes and policy changes.…”

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“…Furthermore, "megafires"wildfires that overwhelm the capacity and endurance of available firefighting resourceshave become increasingly common in Europe since the early 1990s, and their frequency is expected to further increase in the future due to climate change (Tedim et al 2016). Studies also stress that managing a wildfire does not end when the fire is extinguished, as long-term social and ecological concerns need to be addressed (Vallejo and Alloza 2015;Tedim et al 2016). Thus, wildfires are a growing global problem, making it important to generate more knowledge about this phenomenonboth to prevent their occurrence and to minimize their consequences.…”

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Wildfires, responsibility and trust: public understanding of Sweden's largest wildfire

Lidskog

Johansson

Sjödin

2019

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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Wildfires present a growing risk to many countries, and climate change is likely to exacerbate this risk. This study analyzes how people directly affected by a wildfire understand its causes and consequences, as well as the future risk of wildfires. The point of departure is that social understanding of wildfires has an important influence on the consequences that emerge in the wake of a wildfire. The empirical case analyzed here is the largest forest fire in modern Swedish history, and the material basis of the study is a postal survey to all individuals directly affected by the fire. The results revealed a complex picture of the respondents' understanding of the wildfire. Even if the fire was human caused, there was little blame toward forest companies and fire departments. Many positive consequences, such as a long-term increase in biodiversity, were attached to the disaster, and there was a belief that organizations will learn from it and take action to limit wildfires in the future. Simultaneously, the majority of the respondents believed that climate change may lead to an increased risk of forest fires in the future. These findings illustrate the complexity of people's perceptions of the fire and its aftermath.

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“…These include topography (eg in xeric ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere, sites with northern aspects typically recover better than those with southern aspects), local climate (eg wetter conditions typically accelerate recovery in relatively dry regions), and forest management (eg selective thinning or planting to promote regeneration of certain species after a wildfire; Vallejo and Alloza 2015).…”

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Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards

Lecina‐Diaz

Martínez‐Vilalta

Álvarez

et al. 2020

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Wildfires, drought, insect outbreaks, and windstorms are altering the forest‐associated ecosystem services that are essential for human well‐being, and the impacts of such events are likely to increase under ongoing climate change. However, a widely accepted and operational framework for evaluating forest vulnerability and risk to these disturbances remains lacking. We propose a general framework to assess forest vulnerability and risk based on the widely used concepts of exposure, hazard magnitude, susceptibility, and lack of adaptive capacity as defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We suggest a standardized procedure for defining and combining these components, as well as a list of indicators readily applicable to the primary hazards to forests associated with climate change. This framework and its methodology constitute a basis for a systematic assessment of forest risk and vulnerability for policy makers, as well as for forest and land managers, that can aid in the development of forward‐looking policies.

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Postfire Ecosystem Restoration

Cited by 14 publications

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Changes in ecosystem properties after post‐fire management strategies in wildfire‐affected Mediterranean forests

Changes in ecosystem properties after post‐fire management strategies in wildfire‐affected Mediterranean forests

Wildfires, responsibility and trust: public understanding of Sweden's largest wildfire

Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards

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