To understand in a comprehensive manner the impacts of wildfire severity on forests soils remains a challenge, particularly when dealing with soil carbon stocks, carbon dynamics and carbon forms. This knowledge is essential to determine the role of wildfires on the global carbon cycle as well as to quantify carbon budgets. In addition, the current efforts to analyze the effectiveness of post-fire restorative actions have focused on the reduction of soil erosion processes and the fast recovery of vegetation after fire. However, other aspects such as those related to soil chemical properties, including soil nutrients and soil carbon metabolism have received less attention. Therefore, we are interested in state-of-the-art research on post-fire restoration and its influence on carbon stocks, forms, cycle and post-fire dynamics.
The present Research Topic welcomes manuscripts focusing on the influence of wildfires and post-fire restorative actions on soils.
We are particularly interested in those manuscripts dealing with burn severity, carbon stocks, carbon forms and carbon cycle and post-fire carbon dynamics such as:
• Articles focusing on determining the impact of fire on soil status and processes, and their relationship with burn severity
• Papers characterizing fire severity influence on carbon stocks.
• Research about fire severity impacts on carbon forms.
• Papers studying post-fire carbon dynamics and identifying carbon sinks and sources in relation to fire.
• Articles about the modelling of fire emissions and pyrogenic carbon formation at the regional and at the planetary scale.
• Articles investigating how the burn severity influences the post-burn decomposition processes
To understand in a comprehensive manner the impacts of wildfire severity on forests soils remains a challenge, particularly when dealing with soil carbon stocks, carbon dynamics and carbon forms. This knowledge is essential to determine the role of wildfires on the global carbon cycle as well as to quantify carbon budgets. In addition, the current efforts to analyze the effectiveness of post-fire restorative actions have focused on the reduction of soil erosion processes and the fast recovery of vegetation after fire. However, other aspects such as those related to soil chemical properties, including soil nutrients and soil carbon metabolism have received less attention. Therefore, we are interested in state-of-the-art research on post-fire restoration and its influence on carbon stocks, forms, cycle and post-fire dynamics.
The present Research Topic welcomes manuscripts focusing on the influence of wildfires and post-fire restorative actions on soils.
We are particularly interested in those manuscripts dealing with burn severity, carbon stocks, carbon forms and carbon cycle and post-fire carbon dynamics such as:
• Articles focusing on determining the impact of fire on soil status and processes, and their relationship with burn severity
• Papers characterizing fire severity influence on carbon stocks.
• Research about fire severity impacts on carbon forms.
• Papers studying post-fire carbon dynamics and identifying carbon sinks and sources in relation to fire.
• Articles about the modelling of fire emissions and pyrogenic carbon formation at the regional and at the planetary scale.
• Articles investigating how the burn severity influences the post-burn decomposition processes
