@article{fdi:010077836,
  title = {{P}rojecting future impacts of global change including fires on soil erosion to anticipate better land management in the forests of {NW} {P}ortugal},
  author = {{P}astor, {A}. {V}. and {N}unes, {J}. {P}. and {C}iampalini, {R}ossano and {K}oopmans, {M}. and {B}aartman, {J}. and {H}uard, {F}. and {C}alheiros, {T}. and {L}e-{B}issonnais, {Y}. and {K}eizer, {J}. {J}. and {R}aclot, {D}amien},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{W}ildfire is known to create the pre-conditions leading to accelerated soil erosion. {U}nfortunately, its occurrence is expected to increase with climate change. {T}he objective of this study was to assess the impacts of fire on runoff and soil erosion in a context of global change, and to evaluate the effectiveness of mulching as a post-fire erosion mitigation measure. {F}or this, the long-term soil erosion model {L}and{S}oil was calibrated for a {M}editerranean catchment in north-central {P}ortugal that burnt in 2011. {L}and{S}oil was then applied for a 20-year period to quantify the separate and combined hydrological and erosion impacts of fire frequency and of post-fire mulching using four plausible site-specific land use and management scenarios ({S}1. business-as-usual, {S}2. market-oriented, {S}3. environmental protection and {S}4. sustainable trade-off) and an intermediate climate change scenario {R}epresentative {C}oncentration {P}athway ({RCP}) 4.5 by 2050. {T}he obtained results showed that: (i) fire had a reduced impact on runoff generation in the studied catchment (<5%) but a marked impact on sediment yield ({SY}) by about 30%; (ii) eucalypt intensification combined with climate change and fires can increase {SY} by threefold and (iii) post-fire mulching, combined with riparian vegetation maintenance/restoration and reduced tillage at the landscape level, was highly effective to mitigate soil erosion under global change and associated, increased fire frequency (up to 50% reduction). {T}his study shows how field monitoring data can be combined with numerical erosion modeling to segregate the prominent processes occurring in post forest fire conditions and find the best management pathways to meet international goals on achieving land degradation neutrality ({LDN}).},
  keywords = {sediment yield ; runoff ; fire frequency ; erosion control techniques ; mulching ; global change ; {PORTUGAL}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{W}ater},
  volume = {11},
  numero = {12},
  pages = {art. 2617 [19 p.]},
  year = {2019},
  DOI = {10.3390/w11122617},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010077836},
}