A5039940150- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Landslides and related hazards
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Forest ecology and management
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2023-2024
University of Castilla-La Mancha
2018-2023
A detailed knowledge of soil water repellency (SWR) and infiltration capacity soils under different land uses is fundamental importance in Mediterranean areas, since these areas are prone to degradation risks (e.g., erosion, runoff polluting compounds) as a response hydrological processes. The present study evaluates the effects on SWR hydraulic conductivity (SHC) by direct measurements at plot scale three representing (1) intensive agricultural use, (2) abandoned farmland, (3) forest...
Abstract Forest are highly vulnerable to global change drivers, such as an increase in wildfire events. Learning more about how and why different post‐fire management strategies regulate the ability of forest ecosystem properties (e.g. plant diversity function) simultaneously recover after provide multiple functions is critical importance. This study aims evaluate unburned, burned managed unmanaged plots responses diversity, nutrient cycling, soil carbon stocks, water regulation,...
The evaluation of vegetation cover after post-fire treatments burned lands is important for forest managers to restore soil quality and plant biodiversity in ecosystems. Unfortunately, this may be time consuming expensive, requiring much fieldwork surveys. use remote sensing, which makes these activities quicker easier, have rarely been carried out the Mediterranean forests, subjected wildfire stabilization techniques. To fill gap, study evaluates feasibility satellite (using LANDSAT8...
The modification of fire regimes and their impact on vegetation recovery, soil properties, fuel structure are current key research areas that attempt to identify the thresholds vegetation’s susceptibility wildfires. This study aimed evaluate vulnerability Mediterranean pine forests (Pinus halepensis Mill. Pinus pinaster Aiton) wildfires, analyzing two major forest fires occurred in Yeste (Spain) 1994 2017, affecting over 14,000 3200 hectares, respectively. Four recovery regions were...
After wildfires, emergency actions and post-fire management are implemented to mitigate fire damage. Salvage logging is a tool often applied burned stands, but despite being forest restore ecosystem functions, its ecological effects remain poorly understood. In the Mediterranean Basin, where land use land-use change bringing about changes in drought periods regimes, optimal treatments should be included adaptive order increase resilience reduce vulnerability. July 2012, mid- high-burn...
Abstract Forest fires and post‐fire practices influence sediment connectivity (SC). In this study, we use the ‘aggregated index of connectivity’ (AIC) to assess SC in five Mediterranean catchments (198–1090 ha) affected by a wildfire 2012 south‐eastern Spain. Two temporal scenarios were considered, immediately after fire before management, 2 years including all (hillslope barriers, check‐dams, afforestation, salvage logging skid trails). One LiDAR (light detection ranging)‐derived digital...
The soil microbiota is vulnerable to burning; however, it shows some resilience. No indices have yet been developed assess fire damage related biota. We evaluated the biological recorded by a Biolog EcoPlate System in Mediterranean ecosystem. experiment was carried out an outdoor forest lysimeter facility (MedForECOtron), where we simulated burns with different burn severities. Burning increased metabolic diversity of bacteria and most C-substrate utilization groups. Soil organic matter,...