Soils constitute one of the most valuable resources on earth, especially because soil is
renewable on human time scales. During the 20th century, a period marked by a …

In the last years, uncontrolled fires are frequently occurring in forest and agricultural areas
as an indirect effect of the rising aridity and global warming or caused by intentional illegal …

Prescribed fires are a common management practice in the Mediterranean region and can
be an alternative to reduce the quantity of fuel and hence decrease the wildfire risk. This …

Soils play an essential role in supporting and sustaining life on this planet. In fire-impacted
environments, fire causes considerable changes to the soil, especially in the various …

Fire, a prevalent land management tool in rotational shifting cultivation (RSC), has long
been debated for its immediate disruption of surface soil, vegetation, and microbial …

The aim of this work is to investigate the topsoil thickness affected by burning under
contrasting soil moisture content (field capacity versus air-dried conditions). A mollic horizon …

Aim of the study: To review and acknowledge the value of carbon sequestration by forest
management in the Mediterranean area. Material and methods: We review the main effects …

We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-
prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to …

Fires in forested catchments pose a water contamination risk from fire-derived dissolved
organic matter (DOM). Fire events are expected to increase under a projection of warmer …

Prescribed burning has been readopted in the last decade in the Central Pyrenees to stop
the regression of subalpine grasslands in favour of shrublands, dominated among others by …