Post-fire Impacts and Landscape Management in Forest Ecosystems

Dear Colleagues,

Fire is an important ecological factor that is present in many ecosystems worldwide. However, wildfires, and particularly forest fires, have become increasingly common and more severe in several regions of the world, largely driven by climate and land use changes.

Fire can quickly and drastically change the land, causing direct and indirect impacts that may last for decades or centuries. These impacts, which range from local- to landscape-scale, include severe loss of vegetation cover and related problems, such as soil erosion, water quality, habitat loss for wildlife, pests and diseases. Therefore, all the efforts to better understand the fire effects and improve land management are particularly important to reduce the negative ecological and socio-economic impacts of wildfires.

A large variety of ecological and management factors may interact and determine the speed and performance of post-fire regeneration and recovery in burnt areas. It is important to gather expertise on assessing different post-fire impacts and to share experiences on sucessuful (and unsuccessful) techniques applied on different spatial and temporal scales, in order to inform land managers and to promote more fire-resistent and fire-resilient landscapes in the future.

This Special Issue aims to compile research (original and literature reviews) on a variety of topics related to post-fire impacts and management, including but not limited to:

• Fire impacts on biodiversity and on species of conservation concerns;
• Pest control and sprawl of invasive species;
• Management actions to increase forest resistance and resilience;
• Application of time- and cost-effective tools to monitor post-fire forest recovery;
• Challenges of landscape management at the urban–forest interface;

Proposed titles and abstracts (200–300 words) can be submitted to the guest editors if the prospective authors would like feedback before preparing their manuscripts. For quality research articles or extensive review papers with significant relevance to the Special Issue, submission fees may be waived or partially waived.

Dr. Filipe Xavier Catry
Dr. Susana Abreu Dias
Guest Editors

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• landscape management
• forest ecosystems
• wildfires
• post-fire management
• biodiversity
• fire impact
• resilience