‘Back to the Future’—Oak wood-pasture for wildfire prevention in the Mediterranean

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dc.contributor.authorBergmeier, E.
dc.contributor.authorCapelo, J.
dc.contributor.authorDi, Pietro, R.
dc.contributor.authorGuarino, R.
dc.contributor.authorKavgaci, A.
dc.contributor.authorLoidi, J.
dc.contributor.authorTsiripidis, I.
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-29T16:16:13Z
dc.date.available2024-09-29T16:16:13Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentKarabük Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIn the summer of 2021, enormous wildfires in the Mediterranean eliminated huge areas of mainly coniferous forest, destroyed adjacent settlements and claimed the lives of many people. The fires indicate effects of climate change and expose consequences of rural demographic changes, deficits in regional and touristic development planning and shortcomings in forest policy. This forum article highlights the dimensions of the problem, calls for a paradigm shift and shows solutions. Land abandonment, woody plant encroachment and non-reflective afforestation are leading to increasing amounts of combustible biomass. To prevent disastrous fires in future, fundamental changes in tree species composition, forest structure and management are essential. Plantations of reseeding pines are to be substituted by spacious or periodically open woodlands of long-lived trees with resprouting capacity such as Mediterranean oaks. Biomass-reducing practices including wood-pasture have to be revived in rural and peri-urban areas. Exemplary fire-resistant multifunctional oak woodlands occur throughout the Mediterranean. Urgent and medium-term measures in the burnt areas include promoting natural ecosystem regeneration, developing regionalized seed banks and nurseries to support native genetic resources, fostering vegetation mosaics of groves and multiple-use open and coppice woodland maintained by traditional practices, and in general forest management aiming at fuel biomass reduction and a policy counteracting land abandonment. © 2021 Societa Italiana di Scienza della Vegetazione. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3897/pls2021582/04
dc.identifier.endpage48en_US
dc.identifier.issn2280-1855
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85123684623en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage41en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3897/pls2021582/04
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/8945
dc.identifier.volume58en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSocieta Italiana di Scienza della Vegetazioneen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlant Sociologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBiomass reductionen_US
dc.subjectFire preventionen_US
dc.subjectForest fireen_US
dc.subjectForest managementen_US
dc.subjectMediterranean Basinen_US
dc.subjectOaken_US
dc.subjectPine foresten_US
dc.subjectWood pastureen_US
dc.title‘Back to the Future’—Oak wood-pasture for wildfire prevention in the Mediterraneanen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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