SLM Database

Forest residue mulch is spread immediately after a wildfire in order to prevent soil erosion and reduce overland flow.

• Compiler: Sergio Prats Alegre Prats
• 04/25/2013 3:39 nm.

Use of prescribed fire (or ‘controlled burn’) to reduce the fuel load in the form of live and dead plant material and thus to prevent the likelihood of more damaging wildfire.

• Compiler: Manuela Carreiras
• 07/01/2011 9:25 vm.

In certain situations, the leaves from the burnt trees created a natural carpet that protect the soil from being eroded.

• Compiler: Sergio Prats Alegre Prats
• 05/23/2013 6:44 nm.

Linear strips are strategically located in areas where total or partial removal of the forest biomass is possible. This technology contributes towards preventing the occurrence and spread of large forest fires and reducing their consequences for the environment, people, infrastructures, etc.

• Compiler: Celeste Coelho
• 10/28/2010 11:28 vm.

Post-fire salvage logging is the practice of harvest the trees after fire, the employed methodology is clearcutting which involves the cut of essentially all the trees and the removal of logging residues.

• Compiler: Maruxa Malvar Cortizo
• 01/26/2016 5:27 nm.

Minimum tillage in vineyards is performed in alternated inter-row zone, to promote soil decompation and maintain partial vegetation cover.

• Compiler: Carla Ferreira
• 06/30/2017 11:23 vm.

Miscanthus sinensis gigantheus is a perennial warm-season grass used as a commercial energy crop on soils contaminated with heavy metals.

• Compiler: Andrei Vrinceanu
• 06/18/2015 11:05 vm.

Introducing the leguminous crops in crop rotation to improve soil fertility, as field plot set temporarely outside the crop rotation. Crop rotation with legumes is an alternative to rotation containing only cereals.

• Compiler: Olga Vizitiu
• 07/19/2017 1:32 nm.

Direct drill (no-till) for arable cropping systems. Crop establishment with minimum soil disturbance.

• Compiler: Olga Vizitiu
• 07/19/2017 10:38 vm.