**6. Rehabilitation practices in areas affected by wildfires**

Some rehabilitation practices have been implemented as urgent measures to control soil erosion in areas affected by wildfire in thesemiarid Central Ebro Valley (Figure 10): rehabilitation practices include herb seeding, re-mycorrhization and mulching with barley straw and pine woodchip. The effectiveness of these treatments are discussed in this section.

Fig. 10. Rural depopulation, land abandonment and afforestation with flammable species increased wildifres in Mediterranean semiarid ecosystems: Burned Aleppo pine afforestation in Fraga mountains (left) and abandoned terraces in Sarsa Castle (right).
