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Post-Fire Management of Non-Serotinous Pine Forests

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Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems ((MAFE,volume 24))

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This chapter analyzes the post-fire management of non serotinous pine forests. These pine species do not regenerate after fire and depend on the arrival of seeds from the unburned vegetation to recover after wildfires. The chapter starts with an overview of the ecological context of these forests, from their distribution, vegetation composition and importance to their response after fire. Then it introduces the main issues and alternatives of post-fire management, and concludes with two case studies, one in the western and the other in the eastern Mediterranean Basin.

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  1. Faculty of Biosciences, CREAF and Unit of Ecology, Campus UAB, Barcelona, Spain

    Javier Retana, Xavier Arnan & Anselm Rodrigo

  2. Department of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Margarita Arianoutsou & Dimitris Kazanis

  3. DIBAF, Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

    Anna Barbati

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Retana, J., Arnan, X., Arianoutsou, M., Barbati, A., Kazanis, D., Rodrigo, A. (2012). Post-Fire Management of Non-Serotinous Pine Forests. In: Moreira, F., Arianoutsou, M., Corona, P., De las Heras, J. (eds) Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2208-8_7

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