Demetrio Antonio Zema

Biographic Data

ID8661672
NAMEDemetrio Antonio Zema
GIVEN NAMESDemetrio Antonio
FAMILY NAMEZema
SIGNATUREZEMA D A
AFFILIATIONSAGRARIA Department “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria Reggio Calabria Italy
ORCID0000-0002-5743-3996
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Impacts of Post‐Fire Mulching and Salvage Logging on Ecosystem Recovery 9 Years After a Severe Wildfire in Semi‐Arid Mediterranean Forests

    Open AccessPedro Antonio Plaza‐Álvarez, Pedro Antonio Plaza-Álvarez et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2026

    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

    Open AccessMisagh Parhizkar, Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2025

    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

    Open AccessPedro Antonio Plaza‐Álvarez, Rocío Arias‐Calderón et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2025

    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

    Open AccessAdrian Martinez Hontecillas, Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2024

    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

    Open AccessPedro Antonio Plaza‐Álvarez, Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2024

    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…