….or in deteriorated soils. They are able to grow in land which has been devastated by a fire, in sandy areas, or in damaged soil plots due to exaggerated agricultural use. They survive with little food and little water. Repopulating with this type of tree is not an impulse decision, but a practical one. Where other species would die due to a lack of nutrients, the pine is able to grow and at the same time take root, and its pine needles fertilise the land. Its needles create a layer on the ground that prevents the emergence of opportunistic species that take advantage of the organic matter that the same pine is depositing on the ground.