When fire runs. Credit: A. Jordán. Click to see the original picture and data at Imaggeo.
Noemí Lana-Renault Monreal
noemi-solange.lana-renault@unirioja.es
University of La Rioja, Spain
We are glad to announce that the Special Issue on “Geo-environmental effects of wildfires”, which has been recently published by Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica (volume 40 (2), 2014). This Special Issue aims at bringing together the key impacts of wildfires on runoff, soil properties and erosion, and plant biomass changes.
Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica
Some contributions to this Special Issue include field measurements and lab experiments. Keesstra et al. (2014), investigated in the lab the fire effects on a Redzina soil and suggested that water repellency and protection by ash were factors to consider in assessing the erosion susceptibility of a burnt forest soil; Velasco & Úbeda (2014) analyzed soil aggregate stability after a forest fire that occurred in 1994, and Moya et al. (2014), studied the post fire forest management in relation to biomass recovery and carbon stock on burnt areas. Other contributions to this Special Issue synthesized the state-of-the-art in several related topics, especially the effect of fire on soil properties (Zavala et al., 2014), soil erodibility in Galicia (Benito et al., 2014), soil organic matter (de la Rosa et al., 2014) and soil erosion and runoff in Portugal (Prats et al., 2014). Additionally, the contribution by Herrera & Chuvieco (2014) highlights the importance of estimating fuel moisture content by hyperspectral measurements for fire risk assessment. The last contribution of this Special Issue (Domíneguez et al., 2014) assesses media coverage of wildfires and critically discusses the lack of scientific communication about the nature of wildfires in Mediterranean ecosystems.
All the articles are freely accessible here (see the table of contents below).
About the journal
Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica is issued twice a year and includes original research and review papers on all aspects of physical geography and environmental sciences. All papers are subject to full peer review. This journal has been in publication uninterruptedly since 1975. It is indexed in Scopus since 2009.
Editors of the Special Issue
Artemi Cerdá, Universitat de Valéncia
José Arnáez Vadillo, Universidad de La Rioja
Noemí Lana-Renault, Universidad de La Rioja
José M. García-Ruiz, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC)
Table of contents
- Keesstra SD, Maroulis J, Argaman E, Voogt A, Wittenberg L. 2014. Effects of controlled fire on hydrology and erosion under simulated rainfall. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 269-294.
- Herrera ME, Chuvieco E. 2014. Estimating water content from hyperspectral measurements for fire risk mapping. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 295-310.
- Zavala LM, de Celis R, Jordán A. 2014. How wildfires affect soil properties. A brief review. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 311-332.
- Velasco A, Úbeda X. 2014. Water-stable aggregates in a burned soil at different intensities eighteen years after a forest fire. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 333-352.
- Benito E, Varela ME, Rodríguez-Alleres M. 2014. Wildfire effects on soil erodibility in Galicia. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 353-370.
- Moya D, Alfaro-Sánchez R, López-Serrano F, Dadi T, Hernández-Tecles E, Ferrandis P, de las Heras J. 2014. Post-fire management of mediterranean forests: carbon storage in regenerated areas in eastern Iberian Peninsula. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 371-386.
- De la Rosa JM, Knicker H, González-Pérez JA, González-Vila FJ, Jiménez-Morillo NT, Almendros G. 2014. Revisiting molecular-level research on the impact of fire on soil organic matter: Progresses in the 21st century. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 387-402.
- Prats S, Malvar M, Martins MAS, Keizer JJ. 2014. Post-fire soil erosion mitigation: a review of the last research and techniques developed in Portugal. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 403-428.
- Domínguez M, González C, Pineda F. 2014. More fuel to the fire: news coverage of wildfires. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 40, 429-448.
