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Post-Fire Management of Cork Oak Forests

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Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

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This chapter concerns the ecology and post-fire management of cork oak forests. It starts with a short overview of ecological and socio-economic context, continuing with an introduction on the cork oak post-fire regeneration strategies and the main factors affecting tree responses. Several post-fire management issues and alternatives, such as tree logging, assisting natural regeneration, reforestation, cork harvesting and pruning, or protecting against herbivory, are also presented and discussed.

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Acknowledgments

To all people who contributed in some way to the contents of this chapter, with special thanks to Francisco Rego, Paulo Fernandes and Thomas Curt. To Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PhD grant SFRH/BD/65991/2009), FFP (project Recuperação de Áreas Ardidas), EU (COST FP0701 and TRANZFOR), and the Spanish government (project VARQUS, CGL2004-04325/BOS).

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  1. Centre for Applied Ecology, School of Agriculture (ISA), Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Filipe X. Catry & Francisco Moreira

  2. Institute for the Wood, Cork and Vegetable Coal (IPROCOR), Polígono Industrial El Prado, Badajoz, Spain

    Enrique Cardillo

  3. Desertification Research Centre, Spanish National Research Council (CIDE-CSIC), Valencia, Spain

    Juli G. Pausas

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Catry, F.X., Moreira, F., Cardillo, E., Pausas, J.G. (2012). Post-Fire Management of Cork Oak 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_9

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