Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century

Most of the Iberian Peninsula has a Mediterranean climate, which strongly determines the objectives, strategies and techniques of forest restoration. This communication addresses a main forest restoration challenge for Mediterranean-climate woodlands in Spain: the transformation of old monospecific...

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Autor: Villar Salvador, Pedro|||0000-0001-9338-4530
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27080
https://dx.doi.org/10.21750/REFOR.1.04.4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Afforestation
Biodiversity
Container Stock
Fertilization
Pine Plantations
Oak Stands
Plant Quality
Ciencia
Medio Ambiente
Environmental science
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spelling Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st centuryVillar Salvador, Pedro|||0000-0001-9338-4530AfforestationBiodiversityContainer StockFertilizationPine PlantationsOak StandsPlant QualityCienciaMedio AmbienteEnvironmental scienceMost of the Iberian Peninsula has a Mediterranean climate, which strongly determines the objectives, strategies and techniques of forest restoration. This communication addresses a main forest restoration challenge for Mediterranean-climate woodlands in Spain: the transformation of old monospecific pine plantations to more diverse, resistant and resilient forest systems. I also present how afforestation methods and some ideas on plant quality have evolved in the last 80 years. Productivity of Mediterranean forests is low, which discourages private owners to invest in woodland management. Therefore, woodland management strongly relies on public funds. Largescale afforestation in the 20th century has created huge areas of monospecific pine plantations, which have been under thinned and are very simple structurally with almost no understory. The stands are very prone to fires, diseases and drought dieback. However, old pine plantations can facilitate the establishment of late successional trees and shrubs when properly thinned. Therefore, pine plantations are an opportunity for restoring several types of oak-dominated forests at a large scale and resources should invested to preserve and gradually transform these plantations into mixed forests. Funds should be invested in thinning progressively rather than to plant new areas. In many plantations close to oak forests remnants, thinning is the only management required. However, many pine plantations are far from seed sources and enrichment plantations together with thinning are needed. Extensive enrichment plantations are expensive. Therefore, an option is to develop a network of small islets strategically placed inside pine plantations and properly managed as seed foci to foster pine plantation colonization. This option is cheaper than conventional extensive low-density enrichment plantations but research is needed to assess its effectiveness for pine plantation transformation.Comunidad de MadridMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad20162016-05-25journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/27080https://dx.doi.org/10.21750/REFOR.1.04.4reponame:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcaláinstname:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/270802026-06-18T11:13:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
title Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
spellingShingle Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
Villar Salvador, Pedro|||0000-0001-9338-4530
Afforestation
Biodiversity
Container Stock
Fertilization
Pine Plantations
Oak Stands
Plant Quality
Ciencia
Medio Ambiente
Environmental science
title_short Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
title_full Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
title_fullStr Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
title_full_unstemmed Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
title_sort Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Villar Salvador, Pedro|||0000-0001-9338-4530
author Villar Salvador, Pedro|||0000-0001-9338-4530
author_facet Villar Salvador, Pedro|||0000-0001-9338-4530
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Afforestation
Biodiversity
Container Stock
Fertilization
Pine Plantations
Oak Stands
Plant Quality
Ciencia
Medio Ambiente
Environmental science
topic Afforestation
Biodiversity
Container Stock
Fertilization
Pine Plantations
Oak Stands
Plant Quality
Ciencia
Medio Ambiente
Environmental science
description Most of the Iberian Peninsula has a Mediterranean climate, which strongly determines the objectives, strategies and techniques of forest restoration. This communication addresses a main forest restoration challenge for Mediterranean-climate woodlands in Spain: the transformation of old monospecific pine plantations to more diverse, resistant and resilient forest systems. I also present how afforestation methods and some ideas on plant quality have evolved in the last 80 years. Productivity of Mediterranean forests is low, which discourages private owners to invest in woodland management. Therefore, woodland management strongly relies on public funds. Largescale afforestation in the 20th century has created huge areas of monospecific pine plantations, which have been under thinned and are very simple structurally with almost no understory. The stands are very prone to fires, diseases and drought dieback. However, old pine plantations can facilitate the establishment of late successional trees and shrubs when properly thinned. Therefore, pine plantations are an opportunity for restoring several types of oak-dominated forests at a large scale and resources should invested to preserve and gradually transform these plantations into mixed forests. Funds should be invested in thinning progressively rather than to plant new areas. In many plantations close to oak forests remnants, thinning is the only management required. However, many pine plantations are far from seed sources and enrichment plantations together with thinning are needed. Extensive enrichment plantations are expensive. Therefore, an option is to develop a network of small islets strategically placed inside pine plantations and properly managed as seed foci to foster pine plantation colonization. This option is cheaper than conventional extensive low-density enrichment plantations but research is needed to assess its effectiveness for pine plantation transformation.
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