Mediterranean areas of both southern Europe and North Africa are subject to dramatic
changes that will affect the sustainability, quantity, quality, and management of water …

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 …

Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

Intense erosion processes are widespread in the Mediterranean region, and include sheet
wash erosion, rilling, gullying, shallow landsliding, and the development of large and active …

Farmland abandonment is a major problem in parts of Europe, particularly in mountain
areas and semiarid environments. In such places, farmland abandonment represents a …

Rainfall partitioning by vegetation plays an important role affecting the water balance at local
and catchment scale due to the control that vegetation canopies exert by modifying both …

Although a few texts on forest hydrology are available, they cover very little, if any,
background on water resources. On the other hand, books dealing with water resources do …

Background and aims In the last decades, large areas undergo a revegetation process as a
result of land abandonment, producing significant environmental and landscape impacts. In …

Post-fire hydrologic research typically focuses on the first few years after a wildfire, leading
to substantial uncertainty regarding the longevity of impacts. The time needed for hydrologic …

Land cover, typically, is a local phenomenon, so the impact of any disturbance is likely to
strongly decrease with catchment size. The position in the landscape will modulate the scale …