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Fire effects on soils: the human dimension
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Santín C
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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
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Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They
support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest
terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water.
Mankind has impacted on soils from its early days in many different ways, with
burning being the first human perturbation at landscape scales. Fire has long
been used as a tool to fertilize soils and control plant growth, but it can also
substantially change vegetation, enhance soil erosion and even cause
desertification of previously productive areas. Indeed fire is now regarded by
some as the seventh soil-forming factor. Here we explore the effects of fire on
soils as influenced by human interference. Human-induced fires have shaped our
landscape for thousands of years and they are currently the most common fires in
many parts of the world. We first give an overview of fire effect on soils and
then focus specifically on (i) how traditional land-use practices involving fire,
such as slash-and-burn or vegetation clearing, have affected and still are
affecting soils; (ii) the effects of more modern uses of fire, such as fuel
reduction or ecological burns, on soils; and (iii) the ongoing and potential
future effects on soils of the complex interactions between human-induced land
cover changes, climate warming and fire dynamics.This article is part of the
themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.