In increasingly changing environments, plant species are forced to either adapt to novel
conditions or shift their ranges to track their ecological niches. Those species that can …

The effects of the present biodiversity crisis have been largely focused on the loss of
species. However, a missed component of biodiversity loss that often accompanies or even …

Mediterranean mountains are extraordinarily diverse and hold a high proportion of endemic
plants, but they are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and most species distribution …

Aim To assess the effects of climate change, past land uses and physiography on the current
position of the tree line in the C atalan P yrenees and its dynamics between 1956 and 2006 …

We combined imagery from multiple sources (MODIS, Landsat-5, 7, 8) with land cover data
to test for long-term (1984–2015) greening or browning trends of vegetation in a temperate …

Abstract Mountain regions in Western Europe have gone through a massive rural–urban
migration and the collapse of their traditional socioeconomic system. As a result, forest has …

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 …

The widespread use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) and their
high persistence in animal tissues has led to these compounds becoming ubiquitous in …

Past the middle of the 20th century, forest fires started to increase markedly in the
Mediterranean countries of southern Europe. Hazardous land-use and land-cover (LULC) …

Rural abandonment and subsequent vegetation regeneration ('passive rewilding') are
expected to increase worldwide, producing cascades of dynamic socioeconomic, landscape …