There are many factors conditioning the recovery of fire-affected ecosystems. So, it is important to assess what measures are necessary to apply and their effectiveness in each case. Certain postfire actions may cause more damage than burning itself, while there are others that are not always necessary, as the ecosystem may sometimes be able to recover by itself.
DescriptionThis project aims to obtain applicable results by studying and comparing different types of post-fire restoration techniques in different soil types, under different vegetation and climatic conditions. Among the possible post-fire actions, the project focuses on the study of natural regeneration, the efficiency of soil protection and conservation techniques (e.g., mulching), soil improvement and accelerating techniques for the recovery of vegetation cover (e.g., the application organic compost) and the assessment of the impact of traditional activities as the removal of burned wood, which may be aggressive to the soil.
Non-UV principal researchers
Jorge Mataix-Solera, University Miguel Hernández
Non-UV participating researchers
Artemi Cerdá
Jorge Mataix-Solera
Jorge Mataix-Beneyto
Antonio Jordán
Lorena M. Zavala
Arturo J.P. Granged
Juan Gil
Ernesto García Sánchez
Victoria Arcenegui
Elena Lozano
Patricia Jiménez-Pinilla
Katka Chrenková
Vincenzo Alagna
Jorge Moltó Sánchez
Ángel J. Gordillo-Rivero
Jorge García-Moreno
Marco A. Jiménez-González
Nicasio T. Jiménez-Morillo
Elisabeth Jiménez-Compán
Reyes de Celis
Nancy Alanís
Fernando M. Granja-Martins
Helena M. Neto-Paixão
Nuno Simões
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
Xavier Úbeda
Paulo Pereira
Joaquim Farguell
Marcos Francos
Meritxell Alcañiz
Roser Rodríguez-Carreras
Alicia Morugán-Coronado
Óscar González-Pelayo
José Antonio González Pérez
Pavel Dlapa
Pilar Torres
Stefan H. Doerr
Paul Hallet
Lubomir Lichner
Massimo Lovino
Antonio Vieira
Antonio Bento
Susan Grayston
Saskia Keesstra
Jacob Keizer
Giovanni Mastrolonardo
Giacomo Certini
Lily Pereg
Miriam Muñoz Rojas
Funding agencies:
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Results
THESES
- 2016. Advances in the study of Mediterranean soils affected by forest fires. Patricia Jiménez Pinilla. Supervisors: J Mataix-Solera, V Arcenegui Baldó and LM Zavala. Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.
- 2015. Sensitivity of glomalin to fire effects on soil and its relationship with water repellency in Mediterranean forests soils. Elena Lozano Guardiola. Jorge Mataix-Solera, Victoria Arcenegui Baldó and Jorge Mataix-Beneyto. Universidad Miguel Hernández.
- 2014. Study on the impact of wildfires in water repellency from Mediterranean soils (south-western Andalusia). Ángel J. Gordillo-Rivero. Supervisors: LM Zavala and A Jordán. Universidad de Sevilla.
- 2014. Soil water repellency as conditioned by land use and management. Short- and long-term effects. Jorge García Moreno. Supervisors: Lorena Martínez Zavala and Antonio Jordán López (Universidad de Sevilla).
- 2014. Marco A Jiménez González. Aplicación de técnicas de análisis mineralógico a la estimación de la temperatura alcanzada en un suelo durante un incendio forestal. Supervisors: A Jordán, LM Zavala. Universidad de Sevilla.
- 2013. NT JIménez Morillo. Aplicación de pirólisis analítica para el estudio de la repelencia al agua en suelos arenosos del Parque Nacional de Doñana. Supervisors: A Jordán, LM Zavala, JA González-Pérez. Ph.D. Program: Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente. Universidad de Sevilla.
- 2015. E Jiménez Compán. Factores que controlan la respuesta microbiana del suelo tras la aplicación de quemas en laboratorio. Supervisors: G Bárcenas (Universidad de Sevilla), M Muñoz-Rojas (University of Western Australia). Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla.
- 2015. PJ Cervantes. Diseño y montaje de un simulador de lluvia pra ensayos de campo: "ARLOAN". Supervisors: AJ Gordillo-Rivero, J García-Moreno. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Universidad de Sevilla.
- 2014. R de Celis. Efecto de las cenizas en la respuesta hidrológica y erosiva de suelos afectados por incendios. Supervisors: A Jordán, LM Zavala. Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla.
COURSES AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- 2015. Forest fire's effects on the soil system. The state of the art and techniques to learn more. Coord.: Artemi Cerdà. El Teularet, Alicante.
- 2015. Soil restoration after wildfires. Coords.: Paulo Pereira (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Antonio Jordán (University of Seville, Spain), Jorge Mataix-Solera (University Miguel Hernández, Spain), Kevin Hyde (University of Wyoming, USA) and Lorena M. Zavala (University of Seville, Spain). EGU2015, Vienna, Austria.
COLLABORATIONS IN EXTERNAL COURSES
ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESSES
- 2014. Incêndios florestais. XIV Colóquio Ibérico de Geografia. Universidade do Minho, Azurém. Portugal.
POSTERS
PAPERS IN SCI JOURNALS
In press
- Alanís, N., Hernández Madrigal V.M., Cerdà, A., Muñoz-Rojas, M., Jordán, A. Spatial gradients of intensity and persistence of soil water repellency under different forest types in central Mexico Land Degradation & Development. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2544.
- Francos, M., Pereira, P., Alcañiz, M., Mataix-Solera, J., Úbeda, X. Impact of an intense rainfall event on soil properties following a wildfire in a Mediterranean environment (North-East Spain). Science of the Total Environment. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.145.
- Lozano, E., Chrenková, K., Arcenegui, V., Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Mataix-Solera, J., Mataix-Beneyto, J. Glomalin-related soil protein response to heating temperature: a laboratory approach. Land Degradation & Development . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2415.
- Lozano, E., Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Arcenegui, V., _Mataix-Solera, J., Mataix-Beneyto, J. Sensitivity of glomalin-related soil protein to wildfires: immediate and medium-term changes. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.071.
- Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Lozano, E., Mataix-Solera, J., Arcenegui, V., Zavala, L.M., Jordán, A. Temporal changes in soil water repellency after a forest fire in a Mediterranean calcareous soil: influence of ash and different vegetation type. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.121.
- Jiménez-Morillo, N.T., González-Pérez, J.A., Jordán, A., Zavala, L.M., de la Rosa, J.M., Jiménez-González, M.A., González-Vila, F.J. Organic matter fractions controlli_ng soil water repellency in sandy soils from the Doñana National Park (SW Spain). Land Degradation & Development. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2314.
- Jordán, A., Zavala, L.M., Granged, A.J.P., Gordillo-Rivero, A.J., García-Moreno, J., Pereira, P., Bárcenas-Moreno, G., de Celis, R., Jiménez-Compán, E., Alanís, N. Wettability of ash conditions splash eros_ion and runoff rates in the postfire. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.140.
- Pereira, P., Cerdà, A., Jordán, A., Zavala, L.M., Mataix-Solera, J., Arcenegui, V., Misiune, I., Keesstra, S., Novara, A. (In press) Short-term vegetation recovery after a grassland fire in Lithuania. The effects of fire severity, slope position and aspect Land Degradation & Development. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2498.
2016
- Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Doerr, S.H., Ahn, S., Lozano, E., Mataix-Solera, J., Jordán, A., Zavala, L.M., Arcenegui V. (2016) Effects of relative humidity on the water repellency of fire-affected soils Catena 138: 68-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.11.012.
2015
- Dlapa, P., Bodí, M.B., Mataix-Solera, J., Cerdà, Doerr S.H. (2015) Organic matter and wettability characteristics of wildfire ash from Mediterranean conifer forests. Catena, 135, 369-376. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.06.018.
- Pereira, P., Cerdà, A., Úbeda, X., Mataix-Solera, J. Arcenegui, V., Zavala, L. (2015) Modelling the impacts of wildfire on ash thickness in a short-term period, Land Degradation and Development, 26, 180-192. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2195.
- Pereira, P., Jordán, A., Cerdà, A., Martin, D. (2015) Editorial: The role of ash in fire-affected ecosystems. Catena, 135, 337-339. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.11.016.
2014
- Bodí, M.B., Martin, D.A., Balfour, V.N., Santín, C., Doerr, S.H., Pereira, P., Cerdà, A., Mataix-Solera, J. Wildland fire ash: Production, composition and eco-hydro-geomorphic effects (2014) Earth-Science Reviews, 130, pp. 103-127. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.12.007.
- Dlapa, P., Bodí, M.B., Mataix-Solera, J., Cerdà, A., Doerr, S.H. Organic matter and wettability characteristics of wildfire ash from Mediterranean conifer forests (2014) Catena, . Article in Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.06.018.
- Jordán, A., Gordillo-Rivero, T.J., García-Moreno, J., Zavala, L.M., Granged, A.J.P., Gil, J., Neto-Paixão, H.M. Post-fire evolution of water repellency and aggregate stability in Mediterranean calcareous soils: A 6-year study (2014) Catena, 118, pp. 115-123. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.02.001.
- Lozano, E., García-Orenes, F., Bárcenas-Moreno, G., Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Mataix-Solera, J., Arcenegui, V., Morugán-Coronado, A., Mataix-Beneyto, J. Relationships between soil water repellency and microbial community composition under different plant species in a Mediterranean semiarid forest (2014) Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 62 (2), pp. 101-107. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/johh-2014-0017.
- Oliva, M., Pereira, P. Bockheim, J., Navas, A. (2014). Preface: Soil processes in cold-climate environments (2014) Solid Earth, 5, pp. 1205-1208. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-5-1205-2014.
- Pereira, P., Úbeda, X., Martin, D., Mataix-Solera, J., Cerdà, A., Burguet, M. Wildfire effects on extractable elements in ash from a Pinus pinaster forest in Portugal (2014) Hydrological Processes, 28 (11), pp. 3681-3690. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9907.
- Pereira, P., Úbeda, X., Mataix-Solera, J., Oliva, M., Novara, A. Short-term changes in soil Munsell colour value, organic matter content and soil water repellency after a spring grassland fire in Lithuania (2014) Solid Earth, 5 (1), pp. 209-225. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-5-209-2014.
- Zavala, L.M., García-Moreno, J., Gordillo-Rivero, T.J., Jordán, A., Mataix-Solera, J. Natural soil water repellency in different types of Mediterranean woodlands (2014) Geoderma, 226-227 (1), pp. 170-178. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.02.009.
- Zavala LM, de Celis R, Jordán A. How wildfires affect soil properties. A brief review (2014) Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 40 (2), 311-331. Full text.
PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS IN NOT-SCI JOURNALS
2015
- Pereira, P., Pranskevicius ,M., Jordán, A., Zavala, L. M., Úbeda, X., Cerdá, A. 2015. Short term spatio-temporal variability of soil water extractable Al and Zn after a low severity grassland fire in Lithuania. Flamma, 6, pp. 50-57.
- Pereira, P., Pranskevicius, M., Bolutiene, V., Jordán, A., Zavala, L. M., Mataix-Solera, J., Úbeda, X., Cerdá, A. 2015. Short-term impact of prescribed fire on soil pH, organic matter and hydrophobicity in a Calluna vulgaris heathland located in Lithuania. First results. Flamma, 6, pp. 13-19.
2014
- Mataix-Solera, J., Arcenegui, V., Zavala, L. M., Pérez-Bejarano, A., Jordán, A., Morugán-Coronado, A., Bárcenas-Moreno, G., Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Lozano, E., Granged, A. J. P., Gil-Torres, J. 2014. Small variations of soil properties control fire-induced water repellency. Spanish Journal of Soil Science, 4, pp. 51-60.
- Gordillo-Rivero, A. J., García-Moreno, J., Jiménez-Morillo, N. T., Jordán, A., Zavala, L. M., Pereira, P., Mataix-Solera, J., Granja-Martins, F.M., Neto-Paixão, H.M. 2014. Stones resting on the top soil cause heterogeneous patterns of fire-induced water repellency. Flamma, 5, pp. 66-70.
- Jiménez-Pinilla, P., Lozano-Guardiola, E., Mataix-Solera, J., Arcenegui, V., Zavala, L. M., Jordán, A., García-Orenes, F. 2014. Advances in the knowledge of the effects of heating on soil aggregate stability. Flamma, 5, pp. 71-74.
- Pereira, P., Cerdá, A., Úbeda, X., Mataix-Solera, J., Jordán, A., Martin, D., Mierauskas, P., Arcenegui, V., Zavala, L. M. 2014. Do fire severity effects on soil change in space and time in the short-term? What ash tells us. Flamma, 5, pp. 23-27.
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