Landscape–wildfire interactions in southern Europe: implications for landscape management

F Moreira, O Viedma, M Arianoutsou, T Curt… - Journal of environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

[LIVRE][B] Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems: ecology, evolution and management

JE Keeley, WJ Bond, RA Bradstock, JG Pausas… - 2011 - books.google.com
Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this
book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in sha** …

Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

R Seidl, PM Fernandes, TF Fonseca, F Gillet… - Ecological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for
sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to …

Drought-induced vegetation shifts in terrestrial ecosystems: The key role of regeneration dynamics

J Martínez-Vilalta, F Lloret - Global and Planetary Change, 2016 - Elsevier
Ongoing climate change is modifying climatic conditions worldwide, with a trend towards
drier conditions in most regions. Vegetation will respond to these changes, eventually …

Fire and soils: Key concepts and recent advances

A Bento-Gonçalves, A Vieira, X Úbeda, D Martin - Geoderma, 2012 - Elsevier
It is clear that, in some climates, fires are a natural phenomenon, they have occurred for
millennia and plants have revealed the capacity to cope with them (Pausas et al., 2008). It is …

How fire history, fire suppression practices and climate change affect wildfire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes

L Brotons, N Aquilué, M De Cáceres, MJ Fortin, A Fall - PLOS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Available data show that future changes in global change drivers may lead to an increasing
impact of fires on terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Yet, fire regime changes in highly …

Viewing forests through the lens of complex systems science

E Filotas, L Parrott, PJ Burton, RL Chazdon… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Complex systems science provides a transdisciplinary framework to study systems
characterized by (1) heterogeneity,(2) hierarchy,(3) self‐organization,(4) openness,(5) …

[PDF][PDF] Salix caprea in Europe: distribution, habitat, usage and threats

CM Enescu, TH Durrant, D De Rigo… - European atlas of forest …, 2016 - researchgate.net
The goat willow is a short-living plant and has no severe threatening diseases in its natural
habitats. Pests are reported to result in economic loss only in biomass coppice plantations …

Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards

J Lecina‐Diaz, J Martínez‐Vilalta… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires, drought, insect outbreaks, and windstorms are altering the forest‐associated
ecosystem services that are essential for human well‐being, and the impacts of such events …