Context Since the nineteenth century, rural areas have experienced progressive
abandonment mostly due to socioeconomic changes, with direct and indirect effects on …

Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be
predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter …

Fires can be ignited by people or by natural causes, which are almost exclusively lightning
strikes. Discriminating between lightning and anthropogenic fires is paramount when …

Fuel management for wildfire risk prevention generally lacks economic sustainability. In
marginal areas of southern Europe, this limits fuel treatment programs from reaching the …

The environmental and socio-economic impacts of wildfires are foreseen to increase across
southern Europe over the next decades regardless of increasing resources allocated for fire …

The assumption that increased wildfire incidence in the Mediterranean Basin during the last
decades is an outcome of changes in land use warrants an objective analysis. In this study …

In light of the ongoing global biodiversity crisis, the urge to monitor and map terrestrial plant
biodiversity at large spatial extents has spurred research on adequate quantitative methods …

Background Heathlands are dynamic plant communities characterized by a high cover of
sclerophyllous, ericoid shrubs that develop over nutrient-poor soils. Interest in the …

This study explored and applied the concepts of Fire Regulation Capacity (FRC) and Fire
Protection Ecosystem Service (FPES) in the assessment of the effects of landscape change …

Many parts of Europe face increasing challenges managing wildfires. Although wildfire is an
integral part of certain ecosystems, fires in many places are becoming larger and more …