Los musgos juegan un papel importante tras los incendios forestales actuando como colonizadores tempranos, estabilizando y protegiendo así el suelo frente a la erosión. Sin embargo, se desconoce el efecto de los musgos sobre la recuperación del suelo post-incendio. En este trabajo estudiamos los efectos a medio plazo del musgo sobre las propiedades físicoquímicas del suelo en una plantación de eucalipto de la r...
Wildfires are known to be one of the main causes of soil erosion and land degradation, and their impacts on ecosystems and society are expected to increase in the future due to changes in climate and land use. It is therefore vital to mitigate the increased hydrological and erosive response after wildfires to maintain the sustainability of ecosystems and protect the values at risk downstream from the fire-affec...
Prescribed burning has been recently readopted as a management practice in the Central Pyrenees (NE-Spain) to stop shrub encroachment processes and recover pasturelands. The immediate effects of prescribed burning on soil C stocks and related biological properties and their evolution in the short-to mid-term after burning were assessed. The study was conducted during three autumnal prescribed burnings in the Ce...
The introduction of coniferous species in former deciduous forests may exert changes in soil organic matter, particularly in its molecular composition. In this work, pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was used to study changes in SOM quality related to the centennial afforestation of Scots pine in an area formerly covered by European beech forest in the NE-flank of the Moncayo Natural Park (NE-Spain...