As still we will experience extreme events of large wildfires, and they provide unique opportunities to study their effects, a framework for quick response to implement needed researh is necessary as extreme events may provide the upper limit of severe impact to biodiversity. Landscape dynamics modeling becomes an essential tool in this context. Aditionally, indicators for the biodiversity status of the system are needed in rapidly evolving fire-prone areas. Diversity is a distinctive sign of nature and is the basis for ecological stability. The forest has ethic, esthetic and cultural values that must be safeguarded and protected.
Biodiversity is an intrinsic value of the forest system.
To address the question of the relationship between management and forest biodiversity it is essential to overcome the concept that the forest is a machine that, if properly arranged and regulated, is capable of providing direct and indirect benefits. This view is based on a Cartesian or Newtonian scientific paradigm. But biology is not physics. The forest is a complex biological system that is under a network of internal and external influences. This shift presupposes radical changes in the scientific approach, and, above all, a deep cultural change.