Sep 29, 2022 · Many recent forest fires worldwide have been fueled by large areas of evergreen monoculture plantations, such as Eucalyptus spp. in Chile and Portugal in 2017 (5) and Pinus spp. in France this past summer (6).

Aug 18, 2024 · Dealing with the risk of fire in carbon sequestration strategies: Diverse forests or plantation monocultures?

Sep 30, 2022 · Dense forest plantations of flammable pine and eucalypt species favor the development of high-intensity large fires, threatening people and the forest industry sustainability under increasingly...

Jan 1, 2023 · Monoculture farming pollutes the environment by increasing the use of inputs, accelerating soil erosion, polluting water resources, raising carbon level in the atmosphere, and decreasing biodiversity. Therefore, farmers are advised to implement diversified farming systems such as crop rotation.

Apr 4, 2024 · Wildfires have strong impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, whose frequency, severity, and intensity are increasing with climate change. Moreover, the expansion of exotic monoculture plantations, such as those of eucalypts, increases this risk.

Fires have always been part of land-management in the tropics and beyond as it is the cheapest way to prepare land for planting, but monoculture plantation development has transformed a long-lived, small-scale practice into a landscape-scale threat.

In particular, the vulnerability of some monoculture forest plantations, as found in Chile, raises questions about the suitability of aforestation programmes intended to take up carbon if they...

Aug 18, 2024 · To help mitigate the climate crisis, restoration is a rapidly growing industry used to offset carbon emissions. The most common approach is to plant fast‐growing monocultures with the aim of...

Sep 27, 2023 · Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees. Yes, really.

3 days ago · Forest fires are classified based on more than five fire detections in an area with >50% forest cover, that last >1 day and with a fire perimeter >100 km 2.