Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja
Biographic Data
| ID | 7993587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel Esteban |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas‐Borja |
| SIGNATURE | BORJA M E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Castilla-La Mancha |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6270-8408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Impacts of Post‐Fire Mulching and Salvage Logging on Ecosystem Recovery 9 Years After a Severe Wildfire in Semi‐Arid Mediterranean Forests
Wildfires severely affect forest ecosystems, degrading soil quality and reducing biodiversity. Post‐fire management aims to mitigate these impacts and accelerate ecological recovery, but little research has explored their long‐term effects on soil and plant diversity. Only a few studies have assessed post‐fire management impacts beyond the short term. To fill this gap, this study provides evidence of the transient effects of mulching and logging …
Effects of Repeated Low‐Severity Fires on Particle Detachment Capacity and Soil Properties in Rills of Semi‐Arid Forests
In forest ecosystems, in addition to wildfire hazards, low‐severity fires may alter some soil properties and trigger soil erosion, especially on long and steep slopes. The literature on the hydrological effects of fire with variable intensity is ample, but the studies on the post‐fire variability of soil detachment capacity in rills (hereafter D c ) are scarce. Moreover, the effects of repeated fires with low severity on the variability of partic…
Effects of Log Erosion Barriers on Soil Fungal Communities Ten Years After a Severe Wildfire in a Semi‐Arid Forest
Fungi are involved in several biotic processes in soil. Many studies have investigated the impacts of wildfire on fungal communities, but few have explored their diversity after post‐fire management. This study seeks to fill this gap by evaluating the species richness, diversity, and evenness of fungi, and many soil properties in a severely burned forest in Central‐Eastern Spain 10 years after installing log erosion barriers (LEBs) as a post‐fire…
Effects of small rock check dams on channel bed, vegetation diversity, and soil properties 10 years after a severe wildfire in forest micro‐catchments of central eastern Spain
One of the most common post‐fire management techniques is the construction of check dams in catchments. However, little research has explored how small check dams impact on bed profile, vegetation diversity and soil properties several years after their construction in Mediterranean ephemeral channels draining micro‐catchments burned by severe wildfires. To fill this gap, this study has evaluated the effects of rock check dams installed about 10 y…
Mid‐Term Effects of Postfire Mulching With Straw or Wood Chips on Soil Erosion in Semi‐Arid Forests
Soil mulching has been studied as a postfire management action to reduce soil erosion in several forest environments. Less research exists about the effectiveness of mulching with straw and wood chips beyond the first year after a wildfire on sites with different slopes. To fill this gap, this study has measured soil erosion in three burned sites (untreated soils, and soils mulched using wheat straw or pine wood chips) throughout a 2.5‐year obser…
The snow cover is more important than other climatic variables on the prediction of vegetation dynamics in the Pyrenees (1981–2014)
The dynamics of the mountain vegetation is governed by multiple climatic drivers including temperature, precipitation, radiation and snow cover variability. However, in the Mediterranean environment, little is known about the relative importance of each variable. In this study we assess how different snowpack indices (the maximum annual accumulation, the length of the snow season, and the melt-out date) and key climate variables (precipitation, t…
Thinning effects on forest production and rainfall redistribution
Large‐scale planted afforestation worldwide has exacerbated soil desiccation and led to a serious shortage of water resources for forests sustainability in semiarid areas. Consequently, thinning is discussed as an important management approach to conserve water resources and to maintain plantation forestland sustainability. Here, we explored the effects of thinning intensity on semiarid forest production and soil water supply. Three artificial fo…
Plants, soil properties and microbes directly and positively drive ecosystem multifunctionality in a plantation chronosequence
Chinese fir ( Cunninghamia lanceolata ) is the main plantation species in the subtropical region of China. However, the shift in ecosystem multifunctionality with stand development remains largely unexplored for these plantations. This study used a chronosequence to investigate the variations of ecosystem multifunctionality by employing individual functions and identified its driving factors in Chinese fir plantations. The findings provide strong…
Components of plant diversity as ecological indicators reflecting the effects of conservation management and degradation in different climatic conditions
Additive partitioning of species diversity is a valuable approach for quantifying the spatial patterns of biodiversity sampled in hierarchically scaled studies. This approach may provide key insights into vegetation community restoration following terrestrial ecosystems degradation in different climatic conditions. The scale‐dependence of plant diversity in relation to different plant functional groups (e.g., herbaceous and woody) is still little…
Early spring prescribed burning in mixed Pinus halepensis Mill. and Pinus pinaster Ait. stands reduced biological soil functionality in the short term
This study evaluates the effects of prescribed burnings on soil physico‐chemical and biological properties in the short term. This practice is still in the process of evaluation and its effect on Mediterranean pine forests is not understood completely. Prescribed burning was carried out in three plots of mixed Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinaster stands in Castilla‐La Mancha (Spain) while monitoring soil temperature. Vegetation coverage was measur…
Integrating preferences and social values for ecosystem services in local ecological management
Integrating preferences and social values for ecosystem services in local ecological management
Components of plant diversity as ecological indicators reflecting the effects of conservation management and degradation in different climatic conditions
Additive partitioning of species diversity is a valuable approach for quantifying the spatial patterns of biodiversity sampled in hierarchically scaled studies. This approach may provide key insights into vegetation community restoration following terrestrial ecosystems degradation in different climatic conditions. The scale‐dependence of plant diversity in relation to different plant functional groups (e.g., herbaceous and woody) is still little…
Early spring prescribed burning in mixed Pinus halepensis Mill. and Pinus pinaster Ait. stands reduced biological soil functionality in the short term
This study evaluates the effects of prescribed burnings on soil physico‐chemical and biological properties in the short term. This practice is still in the process of evaluation and its effect on Mediterranean pine forests is not understood completely. Prescribed burning was carried out in three plots of mixed Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinaster stands in Castilla‐La Mancha (Spain) while monitoring soil temperature. Vegetation coverage was measur…
Thinning effects on forest production and rainfall redistribution
Large‐scale planted afforestation worldwide has exacerbated soil desiccation and led to a serious shortage of water resources for forests sustainability in semiarid areas. Consequently, thinning is discussed as an important management approach to conserve water resources and to maintain plantation forestland sustainability. Here, we explored the effects of thinning intensity on semiarid forest production and soil water supply. Three artificial fo…
Plants, soil properties and microbes directly and positively drive ecosystem multifunctionality in a plantation chronosequence
Chinese fir ( Cunninghamia lanceolata ) is the main plantation species in the subtropical region of China. However, the shift in ecosystem multifunctionality with stand development remains largely unexplored for these plantations. This study used a chronosequence to investigate the variations of ecosystem multifunctionality by employing individual functions and identified its driving factors in Chinese fir plantations. The findings provide strong…
Effects of small rock check dams on channel bed, vegetation diversity, and soil properties 10 years after a severe wildfire in forest micro‐catchments of central eastern Spain
One of the most common post‐fire management techniques is the construction of check dams in catchments. However, little research has explored how small check dams impact on bed profile, vegetation diversity and soil properties several years after their construction in Mediterranean ephemeral channels draining micro‐catchments burned by severe wildfires. To fill this gap, this study has evaluated the effects of rock check dams installed about 10 y…
Mid‐Term Effects of Postfire Mulching With Straw or Wood Chips on Soil Erosion in Semi‐Arid Forests
Soil mulching has been studied as a postfire management action to reduce soil erosion in several forest environments. Less research exists about the effectiveness of mulching with straw and wood chips beyond the first year after a wildfire on sites with different slopes. To fill this gap, this study has measured soil erosion in three burned sites (untreated soils, and soils mulched using wheat straw or pine wood chips) throughout a 2.5‐year obser…
The snow cover is more important than other climatic variables on the prediction of vegetation dynamics in the Pyrenees (1981–2014)
The dynamics of the mountain vegetation is governed by multiple climatic drivers including temperature, precipitation, radiation and snow cover variability. However, in the Mediterranean environment, little is known about the relative importance of each variable. In this study we assess how different snowpack indices (the maximum annual accumulation, the length of the snow season, and the melt-out date) and key climate variables (precipitation, t…
Effects of Repeated Low‐Severity Fires on Particle Detachment Capacity and Soil Properties in Rills of Semi‐Arid Forests
In forest ecosystems, in addition to wildfire hazards, low‐severity fires may alter some soil properties and trigger soil erosion, especially on long and steep slopes. The literature on the hydrological effects of fire with variable intensity is ample, but the studies on the post‐fire variability of soil detachment capacity in rills (hereafter D c ) are scarce. Moreover, the effects of repeated fires with low severity on the variability of partic…
Effects of Log Erosion Barriers on Soil Fungal Communities Ten Years After a Severe Wildfire in a Semi‐Arid Forest
Fungi are involved in several biotic processes in soil. Many studies have investigated the impacts of wildfire on fungal communities, but few have explored their diversity after post‐fire management. This study seeks to fill this gap by evaluating the species richness, diversity, and evenness of fungi, and many soil properties in a severely burned forest in Central‐Eastern Spain 10 years after installing log erosion barriers (LEBs) as a post‐fire…
Impacts of Post‐Fire Mulching and Salvage Logging on Ecosystem Recovery 9 Years After a Severe Wildfire in Semi‐Arid Mediterranean Forests
Wildfires severely affect forest ecosystems, degrading soil quality and reducing biodiversity. Post‐fire management aims to mitigate these impacts and accelerate ecological recovery, but little research has explored their long‐term effects on soil and plant diversity. Only a few studies have assessed post‐fire management impacts beyond the short term. To fill this gap, this study provides evidence of the transient effects of mulching and logging …
Environmental Science (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Fire effects on ecosystems (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Agronomy (4 works) · Arid (4 works)