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López-Serrano FR, Rubio E, Dadi T, et al. Influences of recovery from wildfire and thinning on soil respiration of a Mediterranean mixed forest. Sci Total Environ. 2016;573:1217-1231doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.242.
López-Serrano, F. R., Rubio, E., Dadi, T., Moya, D., Andrés-Abellán, M., García-Morote, F. A., Miettinen, H., & Martínez-García, E. (2016). Influences of recovery from wildfire and thinning on soil respiration of a Mediterranean mixed forest. The Science of the total environment, 5731217-1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.242
López-Serrano, F R, et al. "Influences of recovery from wildfire and thinning on soil respiration of a Mediterranean mixed forest." The Science of the total environment vol. 573 (2016): 1217-1231. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.242
López-Serrano FR, Rubio E, Dadi T, Moya D, Andrés-Abellán M, García-Morote FA, Miettinen H, Martínez-García E. Influences of recovery from wildfire and thinning on soil respiration of a Mediterranean mixed forest. Sci Total Environ. 2016 Dec 15;573:1217-1231. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.242. Epub 2016 May 11. PMID: 27179619.
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Sci Total Environ. 2016 Dec 15;573:1217-1231. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.242. Epub 2016 May 11.

Influences of recovery from wildfire and thinning on soil respiration of a Mediterranean mixed forest.

The Science of the total environment

F R López-Serrano, E Rubio, T Dadi, D Moya, M Andrés-Abellán, F A García-Morote, H Miettinen, E Martínez-García

Affiliations

  1. Department of Science and Agroforestry Technology and Genetics, Higher Technical School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, CP 02071 Albacete, Spain; Environmental Department, Renewable Energy Research Institute, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, CP 02071 Albacete, Spain.
  2. Department of Applied Physics, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, CP 02071 Albacete, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Department of Plant Production, Higher Technical School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, CP 02071 Albacete, Spain.

PMID: 27179619 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.242

Abstract

The ecosystem recovery after wildfire and thinning practices are both key processes that have great potential to influence fluxes and storage of carbon within Mediterranean semiarid ecosystems. In this study, started 7years after a wildfire, soil respiration (SR) patterns measured from 2008 to 2010 were compared between an unmanaged-undisturbed mature forest stand (UB site) and a naturally regenerated post-wildfire stand (B site) in a Mediterranean mixed forest in Spain. The disturbed stand included a control zone (unthinned forest, BUT site) and a thinned zone (BT site). Our results indicated that SR was lower at naturally regenerated after fire sites (BUT and BT) than at unburnt one. Soil under the canopy layer of pine and oak trees exhibited higher SR rates than bare or herbaceous layer soils, regardless of the site. The effect of thinning was only manifest, with a significant increase of SR, during the 1st year after thinning practices. SR showed a clear soil temperature-dependent seasonal pattern, which was strongly modulated by soil water content (SWC), especially in summer. Site-specific polynomial regression models were defined to describe SR responses, being mainly controlled by both soil temperature (Ts) and SWC at UB site, or Ts at burnt sites. The sensitivity of SR rate to Ts variations (Q

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Keywords: Holm oak; Mediterranean maritime pine; Q(10); Soil CO(2) efflux

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