The relative importance of climate change and human activities in influencing regional fire
regimes during the Holocene is still a matter of debate. The introduction of agriculture during …

A new record from a long sediment core (S3) in Navamuño (1505 m asl, western Iberian
Central System) provides the reconstruction of the vegetation history and environmental …

Fire regime changes are considered a major threat to future biodiversity in the
Mediterranean Basin. Such predictions remain uncertain, given that fire regime changes and …

Fire has been one of the main causes of disturbance of vegetation over time, and since the
Neolithic has become an irreplaceable tool for the opening of forest spaces and …

Climate variability such as higher or lower temperatures, changing precipitation patterns,
shifts in plant communities and other climate-related changes have particularly affected …

Human-environment dynamics in past societies has been a major field of research in the
Mediterranean for a long time, but has grown significantly following the increase in the …

Empirical studies investigating long-term trends in wildfires' frequency and severity have
been relatively scarce in Europe. Number of fire events, total burnt area and average fire …

Pines are a major component of forests and other wooded lands in the Mediterranean
region. Pine woodlands have increased during recent decades due to abandonment and …

Global warming and land use changes, contributing to landscape level fuel increments,
could threaten Mediterranean pine forest resilience to wildfire disturbances. Reconstructions …

The Holocene vegetation dynamics of low-and mid-altitude areas of inland Iberia remain
largely unknown, masking possible legacy effects of past land-use on current and future …