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 …

Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) is an important conifer from the western Mediterranean
Basin. Fire is the most significant threat to maritime pine plantations but also a disturbance …

Fire is a dominant ecological factor in Mediterranean ecosystems, and changes in the fire
regime can have important consequences for the stability of our landscapes. In this …

Fire is an integral part of many ecosystems, including the Mediterranean ones. However, in
recent decades the general trend in number of fires and surface burnt in European …

In this paper we test the hypothesis that landscape changes in a region of Northern Portugal
(Minho) in the last 40 years could be predicted from socioeconomic and political history. The …

Time series of the total annual burnt area in Portugal reveal two main features, a large inter-
annual variability and a positive trend since the early 80s. Here we show that inter-annual …

Abstract Information on the spatial incidence of fire ignition density and burnt area, trends
and drivers of wildfires is vitally important in providing support for environmental and civil …

Agricultural land abandonment, widespread in the Mediterranean, is leading to a recovery of
scrubland and forests which are replacing open habitats and increasing wildfire events …

The purpose of this study is to investigate if, or under what conditions, fires select given land
cover types for burning. If fires burn unselectively then the land cover composition (the …

Understanding the spatial patterns of wildfire ignition and spread has important implications
for landscape planning for reducing fire hazard. In this paper we characterise the patterns of …