Post-wildfire soil erosion in the Mediterranean: Review and future research directions

RA Shakesby - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Wildfires increased dramatically in frequency and extent in the European Mediterranean
region from the 1960s, aided by a general warming and drying trend, but driven primarily by …

Are wildfires a disaster in the Mediterranean basin?–A review

JG Pausas, J Llovet, A Rodrigo… - International journal of …, 2008 - CSIRO Publishing
Evolutionary and paleoecological studies suggest that fires are natural in the Mediterranean
basin. However, the important increase in the number of fires and area burned during the …

Expected trends and surprises in the Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands

JS Carrión, S Fernández, P González-Sampériz… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent, high-resolution palaeoecological records are changing the traditional picture of post-
glacial vegetation succession in the Iberian Peninsula. In addition to the influence of …

Orbital-and sub-orbital-scale climate impacts on vegetation of the western Mediterranean basin over the last 48,000 yr

WJ Fletcher, MFS Goñi - Quaternary Research, 2008 - cambridge.org
High-resolution pollen analysis of Alborán Sea core MD95-2043 provides a 48-ka
continuous vegetation record that can be directly correlated with sea surface and deep …

The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

D Langgut, R Cheddadi, JS Carrión… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Olive (Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient
Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin …

The complex history of the olive tree: from Late Quaternary diversification of Mediterranean lineages to primary domestication in the northern Levant

G Besnard, B Khadari, M Navascués… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The location and timing of domestication of the olive tree, a key crop in Early Mediterranean
societies, remain hotly debated. Here, we unravel the history of wild olives (oleasters), and …

A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean

J Luterbacher, R García-Herrera, AR Allan… - The Climate of the …, 2012 - shs.hal.science
A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean - HAL-SHS -
Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Accéder directement au contenu Documentation FR …

Quaternary disappearance of tree taxa from Southern Europe: Timing and trends

D Magri, F Di Rita, J Aranbarri, W Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

Olea, Juglans and Castanea: the OJC group as pollen evidence of the development of human-induced environments in the Italian peninsula

AM Mercuri, MB Mazzanti, A Florenzano… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Pollen data from three off-site records and twenty-six on-site (archaeological) sites are
reviewed to investigate the development of cultural landscapes through the history of the …