The specific vulnerability of plant biodiversity and vegetation on Mediterranean islands in the face of global change

F Médail - Regional Environmental Change, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The numerous Mediterranean islands (> 10,000) are very important from a
biodiversity point of view, both in term of plant species (numerous endemics, presence of …

New relative sea-level insights into the isostatic history of the Western Mediterranean

M Vacchi, M Ghilardi, RT Melis, G Spada… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
A recent suite of Relative Sea-Level (RSL) data for the past 12 ka BP has provided new
insights into the sea-level histories of the western Mediterranean region. Our analysis of the …

Climate pacing of millennial sea-level change variability in the central and western Mediterranean

M Vacchi, KM Joyse, RE Kopp, N Marriner… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Future warming in the Mediterranean is expected to significantly exceed global values with
unpredictable implications on the sea-level rise rates in the coming decades. Here, we apply …

Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia's vegetation during the mid–late Holocene

SE Connor, B Vannière, D Colombaroli… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The 4.2 ka event in the vegetation record of the central Mediterranean

F Di Rita, D Magri - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
In this paper, the variation in forest cover in the central Mediterranean region, reflected by
percentage changes in the arboreal pollen record, has been examined in relation to the 4.2 …

8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)

T Pedrotta, E Gobet, C Schwörer, G Beffa… - Vegetation History and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Knowledge about the vegetation history of Sardinia, the second largest island of the
Mediterranean, is scanty. Here, we present a new sedimentary record covering the past …

Natural and anthropogenic dynamics of the coastal environment in northwestern Corsica (western Mediterranean) over the past six millennia

F Di Rita, M Ghilardi, N Fagel, M Vacchi… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper provides new insights into the climatic and anthropic factors that
influenced a 6000-year coastal evolution in northwestern Corsica, the third largest island of …

8000 years of coastal changes on a western Mediterranean island: A multiproxy approach from the Posada plain of Sardinia

RT Melis, F Di Rita, C French, N Marriner, F Montis… - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation was conducted to reconstruct the Holocene
history of coastal landscape change in the lower Posada coastal plain of eastern Sardinia. In …

Mid to late Holocene environmental changes along the coast of western Sardinia (Mediterranean Sea)

RT Melis, A Depalmas, F Di Rita, F Montis… - Global and planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiproxy analysis composed of biostratigraphy and pollen analysis allowed reconstructing
the palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tirso river coastal plain in …

Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems

C Schwörer, C Morales‐Molino, E Gobet… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, large wildfires are becoming increasingly common, leading to economic
damages and threatening ecosystems and human health. Under future climate change …