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T1 Mulching treatments favour the recovery of ecosystem multifunctionality after a large wildfire in Northwest Spain
A1 Marcos Porras, Elena María
A1 Huerta del Gallego, Sara
A1 Fernández García, Víctor
A1 Prieto Aguilar, Iván
A1 Pinto Prieto, Rayo
A1 Ansola González, Gemma
A1 Sáenz de Miera Carnicer, Luis Enrique
A1 Calvo Galván, María Leonor
A2 ViegasDomingos Xavier, 1950-
A2 RibeiroLuís Mário
A2 Ecologia
K1 Ecología. Medio ambiente
K1 Ingeniería forestal
K1 Ecosystem multifunctionality
K1 High severity
K1 Mediterranean ecosystems
K1 Post-fire treatments
K1 Wildfires
K1 2417.13 Ecología Vegetal
K1 3106 Ciencia Forestal
K1 2511.02 Biología de Suelos
K1 2511.06 Conservación de Suelos
K1 3103.13 Fertilidad del Suelo
K1 3308.99 Otras (Incendios forestales)
AB [EN] Wildfires are a widespread phenomenon in forests across the Mediterranean Basin but have increased in risk and severityin recent decades. Post-fire treatments are measures that help recover burned vegetation and their functionality but towhat extent they also help recover soil functionality is currently unknown. The main objective of this study was to assessthe effect of post-fire treatments on ecosystem multifunctionality after a large wildfire in the Cabrera mountain range in2017 (NW Spain) where close to 10000 Ha of forest were burnt. At the end of 2017 and during 2018, the administrationapplied different post-fire treatments in high fire severity affected areas: i) straw mulching, ii) woody debris and iii)subsoiling and iv) mechanical hole afforestation. In each treatment, we established ten 2 x 2 m plots and ten adjacentuntreated burned plots and collected a composite soil sample from each plot four years after the fire (2021). Wecalculated regulating services as the standardized mean of total soil organic C (climate regulation), soil water repellence(water regulation) and soil aggregation (soil protection). Supporting services were measured as the standardized meanof mineral N-NH4+ and N-NO3- and available P (soil fertility), β-glucosidase, urease and acid phosphatase (nutrientcycling) and microbial biomass (soil quality). Ecosystem multifunctionality was measured as the standardized mean ofall functions measured. Application of straw mulch and woody debris increased regulating ecosystem services in relationto burned control plots. Afforestation with holes had no impact but subsoiling decreased regulating ecosystem servicesin relation to burned control plots. Post-fire treatments did not have any effect on supporting services. Straw mulch,Woody debris and afforestation with holes improved ecosystem multifunctionality when compared with subsoilingmethods. These results show that post-fire stabilisation treatments, in particular straw mulching have a significantpositive impact on regulating services and are effective measures in restoring the ecosystem multifunctionality, helpingdevelop effective management based-decisions for the recovery of ecosystem services and functioning after largewildfires
PB Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
SN 9789892622989
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18666
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18666
NO Marcos, E., Huerta, S., Fernández García, V., Prieto, I., Pinto, R., Ansola, G., Saénz de Miera, L. y Calvo, L. (2022). Mulching treatments favour the recovery of ecosystem multifunctionality after a large wildfire in Northwest Spain. En D. X. Viegas and L.M. Ribeiro (Eds.), Advances in forest fire research 2022 (pp.1234-1239). Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_187
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 13-may-2024