Restoration of a Mediterranean forest after a fire: bioremediation and rhizoremediation field-scale trial.

ABSTRACT: Forest fires pose a serious threat to countries in the Mediterranean basin, often razing large areas of land each year. After fires, soils are more likely to erode and resilience is inhibited in part by the toxic aromatic hydrocarbons produced during the combustion of cellulose and lignins. In this study, we explored the use of bioremediation and rhizoremediation techniques for soil restoration in a field-scale trial in a protected Mediterranean ecosystem after a controlled fire. Our bioremediation strategy combined the use of Pseudomonas putida strains, indigenous culturable microbes and annual grasses. After 8 months of monitoring soil quality parameters, including the removal of monoaromatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as well as vegetation cover, we found that the site had ret

SUBMITTER: Pizarro-Tobias P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4321375 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature