In recent decades, fires in Mediterranean Europe have become larger and more frequent.
This trend has been driven by socioeconomic changes that have generated rural …

Wildfires are an integral part of Mediterranean ecosystems; humans impact on landscapes
imply changes in fuel amount and continuity, and thus in fire regime. We tested the …

Fire regimes in Mediterranean countries have been shifting in recent decades, including
changes in wildfire size and frequency. We sought to describe changes in fire regimes …

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 …

Forest fires are a serious environmental hazard in southern Europe. Quantitative
assessment of recent trends in fire statistics is important for assessing the possible shifts …

The concept of fire regime refers to a variety of fire characteristics occurring at a given place
and period of time. Understanding fire regimes is relevant to fire ecology and fire …

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 …

Aim To understand how vegetation mediates the interplay between fire and climate.
Specifically, we predict that neither the switching of climatic conditions to high flammability …

Since fire has been recognized as an essential disturbance in Mediterranean landscapes,
the study of long-term fire ecology has developed rapidly. We have reconstructed a …

There is growing evidence that the climatic conditions favorable to the occurrence of large
fires (LFs) might not be unique within a homogeneous biogeographic area. But the …