Forest Fires as a Global Threat for the Sustainability of Soil Resources

Dear Colleagues,

In the current context of global climate change, wildfires are spreading far beyond their historical areas of main influence to reach the boreal belt, therefore affecting vegetation, animals and soils for which such disturbances arise as novel and destructive, potentially capable of releasing huge amounts of organic C contained in either living and dead biomass into the atmosphere. In addition, wildfires in Mediterranean and temperate ecosystems are continuously growing in terms of severity because of progressive shortages in fire frequencies, as well as increasing damages for soil, vegetation and, quite often, human lives and property. The scientific community has regarded the effects of intense soil degradation as irreversible along centuries or millennia. In this sense, wildfires must be regarded as a global and long-term issue.

Prof. Dr. Jesús S. Notario-del Pino
Guest Editor

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