Fire resilience in a Mediterranean cultural landscape
Mediterranean cultural landscapes contain a legacy of historical agricultural practices, including terraces and dry-stone walls, that remain embedded in forests following decades of land-use change and abandonment.
This research investigates how historical agricultural terraces, forest structure, and environmental conditions influence forest resistance, recovery, and post-fire regeneration following wildfire in a Mediterranean cultural landscape.
Eleven years after a mixed-severity wildfire, we surveyed 29 forest plots across terraced and non-terraced hillslopes and evaluated multiple dimensions of fire resilience, including overstory resistance, recovery, and post-fire establishment of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis).
Keywords
Aleppo pine · Balearic Islands · Cultural landscapes · Fire resilience · Forest structure · Recruitment · Regeneration · Time since fire
Authors
Alicia Azpeleta