Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

1. Front Matter

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2. Setting the Scene for Post-Fire Management

   • Francisco Moreira, Margarita Arianoutsou, V. Ramón Vallejo, Jorge de las Heras, Piermaria Corona, Gavriil Xanthopoulos et al.

   Pages 1-19

3. Land Cover Change and Fire Regime in the European Mediterranean Region

   • Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz, Marcos Rodrigues, Sandra Santos de Oliveira, Claudia Kemper Pacheco, Francisco Moreira, Beatriz Duguy et al.

   Pages 21-43

4. Economic, Legal and Social Aspects of Post-Fire Management

   • Robert Mavsar, Elsa Varela, Piermaria Corona, Anna Barbati, Graham Marsh

   Pages 45-78

5. Fire Hazard and Flammability of European Forest Types

   • Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Carlo Calfapietra, Paulo Fernandes

   Pages 79-92

6. Fire Ecology and Post-Fire Restoration Approaches in Southern European Forest Types

   • V. Ramón Vallejo, Margarita Arianoutsou, Francisco Moreira

   Pages 93-119

7. Post-Fire Management of Serotinous Pine Forests

   • Jorge de las Heras, Daniel Moya, José Antonio Vega, Evangelia Daskalakou, V. Ramón Vallejo, Nikolaos Grigoriadis et al.

   Pages 121-150

8. Post-Fire Management of Non-Serotinous Pine Forests

   • Javier Retana, Xavier Arnan, Margarita Arianoutsou, Anna Barbati, Dimitris Kazanis, Anselm Rodrigo

   Pages 151-170

9. Post-Fire Management of Mediterranean Broadleaved Forests

   • Josep Maria Espelta, Anna Barbati, Lídia Quevedo, Reyes Tárrega, Pablo Navascués, Consuelo Bonfil et al.

   Pages 171-194

10. Post-Fire Management of Cork Oak Forests

    • Filipe X. Catry, Francisco Moreira, Enrique Cardillo, Juli G. Pausas

    Pages 195-222

11. Post-Fire Management of Exotic Forests

    • Joaquim S. Silva, Hélia Marchante

    Pages 223-255

12. Management of Threatened, High Conservation Value, Forest Hotspots Under Changing Fire Regimes

    • Margarita Arianoutsou, Vittorio Leone, Daniel Moya, Raffaella Lovreglio, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Jorge de las Heras

    Pages 257-291

13. Post-Fire Management of Shrublands

    • Leonor Calvo, Jaime Baeza, Elena Marcos, Victor Santana, Vasilios P. Papanastasis

    Pages 293-319

14. Back Matter

    Pages 321-329

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In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the post-fire management of burned areas raises strong concerns (economic and social impacts, soil erosion and water quality, biodiversity loss, forest restoration). Although there are a few publications which address post-fire management, the focus of these has been either on general approaches to restoration or specific topics such as preventing post-fire soil erosion. This book is about the post-fire management of fire-prone forest types in southern Europe. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the topic, ranging from stand-level to landscape-level management, and from emergency actions to long-term restoration approaches.

• Fire ecology
• Forest restoration
• Post-fire management
• Wildfires
• Forestry Management

From the reviews:

“The book disseminates scientific knowledge on post-fire management and restoration of forests mainly to a target audience of professionals (forest managers, landscape planners, forest agency staff and policy makers), graduate students and researchers. The contents are presented with technical language but understandable even to non-specialized readers. … this is a mandatory book for all those involved in restoration related to forest fires from stand to landscape-level planning, and … whose contents will be valid and taken into account for a long period of time.” (Daniel Moya Navarro, International Forestry Review, Vol. 14 (1), 2012)

• , Centre of Applied Ecology, Institute of Agronomy, Lisbon, Portugal

  Francisco Moreira

• , Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biol, National and Kapodistrian University of, Athens, Greece

  Margarita Arianoutsou

• , Dept. for the Innovation in Biological,, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

  Piermaria Corona

• , Plant Production and Agronomy Technology, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

  Jorge De las Heras

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