Fire is the main destroyer of forest areas in Mediterranean ecosystems, in this work we are going to focus on the specific case of Sierra Mijas.
The most remarkable thing about it is the climate, since there is a great irregularity in rainfall, with mild temperatures, exchanging dry seasons with warm ones. This makes it one of the municipalities, together with the rest of the corners of the Mediterranean, susceptible to forest fires, due to the dry vegetation in summer, together with its pyrophilic nature, and the appearance of torrential rains from the dry season, eroding large amounts of soil, soils that are more fragile if they have been subjected to combustion, as well as nutrient washing.
The short-term effects on the properties of the soil after the forest fire of July 2022 in Sierra Mijas, it has been possible to reach different conclusions, such as that these results have been differentiated by different factors such as lithology, topography, vegetation, land use, intensity and severity of the fire. For this reason, an analysis and knowledge of the affected area is needed, since it is essential to understand the effectiveness of post-fire management treatments and identify the most positive practices in each area.
Fire radically transforms the visual aspect of the landscape and the different aspects that make up the eco-geomorphological system. The elimination of the vegetal cover leads it to a rexistatic state, which is also exacerbated by the post-fire management of the burned area, without taking into account, not only aspects related to the hydro-geomorphological dynamics and its direct consequences, but with the visual quality of the landscape and its recovery in the post-fire situation, which could also be a determining factor in the local economic scale. Regarding the most outstanding parameters are the stability of aggregates that has decreased in the samples analyzed, causing a considerable fragility of the soil against erosion.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
