Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern
Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use …

Modified, more severe fire regimes are develo** in the Mediterranean basin as a result of
changes in land use and climate. Current fire management privileges fire suppression and …

Early global estimates of carbon emissions from biomass burning were based on empirical
assumptions of fire return interval in different biomes in the 1980s. Since then, significant …

In past decades, the European Mediterranean has undergone widespread land use
transformations. These are largely driven by changes of socio-economic conditions, such as …

Patterns of wildfire occurrence at the landscape level were characterised during the period
1990–94 in Portugal. Based on land-cover information within 5591 burned patches (larger …

Cork oak has historically been an important species in the western Mediterranean—
ecologically as a canopy or “framework” tree in natural woodlands, and culturally as an …

The Ayora region, situated about 60 km southwest of the city of Valencia/Spain, was chosen
to demonstrate pathways of characterizing fire events and post-fire succession in …

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 …

Wildfires pose complex challenges to policymakers and fire agencies. Fuel break networks
and area-wide fuel treatments are risk-management options to reduce losses from large …

The country of Spain is representative of land change processes in Mediterranean member
states of the European Union (EU). These land change processes are often triggered by …