Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina
During 2008, under a region-wide drought, there were a large number of simultaneous fires in the Paraná River Delta region: the most affected vegetation was in marshes dominated by Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Soják or Cyperus giganteus Vahl. The objective of this paper was to study fire s...
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| author | Salvia, María Mercedes Ceballos, Dario Sebastian Grings, Francisco Matias Karszenbaum, Haydee Kandus, Patricia |
| author_browse | Ceballos, Dario Sebastian Grings, Francisco Matias Kandus, Patricia Karszenbaum, Haydee Salvia, María Mercedes |
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| description | During 2008, under a region-wide drought, there were a large number of simultaneous fires in the Paraná River Delta region: the most affected vegetation was in marshes dominated by Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Soják or Cyperus giganteus Vahl. The objective of this paper was to study fire severity in terms of fire effect on vegetation cover and soil properties, and the recovery of those properties after one growing season, using optical remote sensing techniques and fieldwork data. To this aim, we performed unsupervised classification of Landsat TM imagery and conducted vegetation censuses and soil sampling in November 2008 and May 2009. Our results show that we could identify three fire severity classes: low severity, medium severity, and high severity. These classes are characterized by a remnant vegetation cover of approximately 75 %, 25 %, and 5 %, respectively, and a diminution of soil organic carbon and nitrogen of 66 % and 59 % in the case of medium severity and high severity. Fire had almost no effect over pH and a slight effect on electrical conductivity. After one growing season, vegetation recovery is dependent on fire severity and hydrological condition, while soil properties did not show signs of recovery. This is one of the first studies of fire effects and recovery on fluvial herbaceous wetlands. |
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| spelling | INTA42502019-01-11T12:49:07Z Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina Salvia, María Mercedes Ceballos, Dario Sebastian Grings, Francisco Matias Karszenbaum, Haydee Kandus, Patricia Tierras Húmedas Medio Ambiente Incendios Paisaje Teledetección Soil Properties Vegetación Wetlands Environment Fires Landscape Remote Sensing Vegetation Propiedades del Suelo Delta del Paraná During 2008, under a region-wide drought, there were a large number of simultaneous fires in the Paraná River Delta region: the most affected vegetation was in marshes dominated by Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Soják or Cyperus giganteus Vahl. The objective of this paper was to study fire severity in terms of fire effect on vegetation cover and soil properties, and the recovery of those properties after one growing season, using optical remote sensing techniques and fieldwork data. To this aim, we performed unsupervised classification of Landsat TM imagery and conducted vegetation censuses and soil sampling in November 2008 and May 2009. Our results show that we could identify three fire severity classes: low severity, medium severity, and high severity. These classes are characterized by a remnant vegetation cover of approximately 75 %, 25 %, and 5 %, respectively, and a diminution of soil organic carbon and nitrogen of 66 % and 59 % in the case of medium severity and high severity. Fire had almost no effect over pH and a slight effect on electrical conductivity. After one growing season, vegetation recovery is dependent on fire severity and hydrological condition, while soil properties did not show signs of recovery. This is one of the first studies of fire effects and recovery on fluvial herbaceous wetlands. EEA Delta del Paraná Fil: Salvia, Maria Mercedes. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina Fil: Ceballos, Dario Sebastian. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Delta del Paraná; Argentina Fil: Grings, Francisco Matias. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina Fil: Karszenbaum, Haydee. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina Fil: Kandus, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Investigaciones e Ingeniería Ambiental. Laboratorio de Ecología, Teledetección y Ecoinformática; Argentina 2019-01-11T12:46:26Z 2019-01-11T12:46:26Z 2012-08 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://link.springer.com/article/10.4996/fireecology.0802017 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4250 1933-9747 https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.0802017 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Springer Fire Ecology 8 (2) : 17–37 (August 2012) |
| spellingShingle | Tierras Húmedas Medio Ambiente Incendios Paisaje Teledetección Soil Properties Vegetación Wetlands Environment Fires Landscape Remote Sensing Vegetation Propiedades del Suelo Delta del Paraná Salvia, María Mercedes Ceballos, Dario Sebastian Grings, Francisco Matias Karszenbaum, Haydee Kandus, Patricia Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina |
| title | Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina |
| title_full | Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina |
| title_short | Post-Fire Effects in Wetland Environments: Landscape Assessment of Plant Coverage and Soil Recovery in the Paraná River Delta Marshes, Argentina |
| title_sort | post fire effects in wetland environments landscape assessment of plant coverage and soil recovery in the parana river delta marshes argentina |
| topic | Tierras Húmedas Medio Ambiente Incendios Paisaje Teledetección Soil Properties Vegetación Wetlands Environment Fires Landscape Remote Sensing Vegetation Propiedades del Suelo Delta del Paraná |
| url | https://link.springer.com/article/10.4996/fireecology.0802017 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4250 https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.0802017 |
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