{"id":333,"date":"2011-12-04T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/?p=333"},"modified":"2017-08-27T18:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T18:31:52","slug":"shrubland-management-strategies-to-maximize-multiple-ecosystem-functions-and-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Shrubland management strategies to maximize multiple ecosystem functions and services"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Understory shrubs play an important role in forest functioning as they may compete with overstory trees for soil resources and increase the risk of fire propagation. Moreover, shrub encroachment into grassland may decrease pastoral value and increase fire hazard to surrounding forests. However, shrubs may have value as a fodder resource or alternative biomass energy, and shrub formations may have non-marketable values as C sinks or biodiversity hot-spots. Thus, forest managers are increasingly interested to develop strategies to manage the multifunctional benefits of these formations in a context of global change. Management for all these goods and services simultaneously may require tradeoffs in most cases. This research aims to contribute to provide knowledge and tools for the management strategies and decision process. The overall aim of this research is to gain knowledge on shrub responses and effects on soil and ecosystem function after disturbances caused by these different management activities. Specifically, this research line addresses the following objectives:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To determine the mechanistic drivers of the response of different functional shrub types to management disturbances<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To understand the trade-offs between different management techniques and shrub formations<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To estimate how contrasting management practices affect ecosystem function, including pastoral value and soil fertility<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To define key processes for modelling ecosystem changes associated to different management options<\/p>\n

Related Projects:<\/p>\n

Forest Understory Prescribed Burnings: Effectiveness and Constraints (ForBurn). <\/strong>Ministerio de Ciencia y Econom\u00eda (MINECO). AGL2012-40098-CO3-00. 2013-1015.<\/p>\n

Restoration of encroached mountain pastures using prescribed burnings or mechanical clearing<\/strong>. Conselleria d’Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca i Medi Natural. Generalitat de Catalunya. 2012-2013.<\/a><\/p>\n

GHG-Europe. Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems. <\/strong>European Comission. EU-RTD integrated project. VII FP. 2010-2013.<\/p>\n

VULCA. Vulnerabilidad del C ed\u00e1fico al cambio clim\u00e1tico y de uso del suelo en ecosistemas pastorales: Efectos del cambio en el r\u00e9gimen de precipitaci\u00f3n en pastos abandonados o quemados. <\/strong>Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n y Ciencia. 2006-2008.<\/p>\n

Selected related papers are:<\/p>\n

Valor T, Gonz\u00e1lez-Olabarria JR, Piqu\u00e9 M, Casals P. 2017. The effects of burning season and severity on the mortality over time of Pinus nigra<\/em> ssp. salzmannii<\/em> (Dunal) Franco and P. sylvestris<\/em> L. For. Ecol.\u00a0 Manage.<\/em> doi:10.1016\/j.foreco.2017.08.027<\/p>\n

Casals P, Valor T, Besal\u00fa A, Molina D. 2016. Understory fuel load and structure eight to nine years after prescribed burning in Mediterranean pine forests. For. Ecol.\u00a0 Manage.<\/em> 362,156-168<\/p>\n

Montan\u00e9 F, Casals P, Dale MRT, \u00a02011. How spatial heterogeneity of cover affects patterns of shrub encroachment into mesic grasslands.\u00a0 PLoS ONE<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ed-Roura M, Casals P, Romany\u00e0 J, 2011. Temporal changes in soil organic C under Mediterranean shrublands and grasslands: Impact of fire and drought. Plant and Soil<\/em>, 338, 289-300 doi: 10.1007\/s11104-010-0485-0<\/p>\n

Montan\u00e9 F, Romany\u00e0 J, Rovira P, Casals P. 2010. Aboveground litter quality changes may drive soil organic carbon increase after shrub encroachment into mountain grasslands. Plant and Soil<\/em>, 337, 151-165. Doi: 10.1007\/s11104-010-0512-1<\/p>\n

Montan\u00e9 F, Casals P, Dale MRT. 2010. Spatial patterns of shrub encroachment in neighbouring grassland communities in the Pyrenees: floristic composition heterogeneity drives shrub proliferation rates. Plant Ecology<\/em>, 211, 267-278 Doi: 10.1007\/s11258-010-9788-8<\/p>\n

Montan\u00e9 F, Casals P, Taull M, Lambert B, Dale M R T, 2009. \u00a0Spatial patterns of shrub cover after different fire disturbances in the Pyrenees. Annals of Forest Science<\/em>, 66:612<\/p>\n

Casals P, Romanya J, Vallejo VR 2005. Short-term N2<\/sub> fixation by legume seedlings and resprouts after fire in Mediterranean old-fields. Biogeochemistry<\/em>, 76(3): 477- 501<\/p>\n

Romany\u00e0 J, Casals P, Vallejo VR 2001. Short-term effects of fire severity on soil nitrogen availability in Mediterranean grasslands and shrublands growing in old fields. Forest Ecology and Management,<\/em> 147: 39- 53<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Understory shrubs play an important role in forest functioning as they may compete with overstory trees for soil resources and increase the risk of fire propagation. Moreover, shrub encroachment into grassland may decrease pastoral value and increase fire hazard to surrounding forests. However, shrubs may have value as a fodder resource or alternative biomass energy, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,24,39,38],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvopas.ctfc.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}