Almost half of the total organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems is stored in forest soils.
By altering rates of input or release of C from soils, forest management activities can …

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 …

Context Since the nineteenth century, rural areas have experienced progressive
abandonment mostly due to socioeconomic changes, with direct and indirect effects on …

Extreme fire events, also referred to as “megafires,” are not uncommon events on a global
scale; they tend to happen a steady frequency in different parts of the world, although, at a …

Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused
persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather …

Agricultural activities and their complex effects on nature conservation, and the services that
ecosystems deliver to humans are controversial. We present an overview of land …

Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be
predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter …

Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for
sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to …

This paper identifies human factors associated with high forest fire risk in Spain and
analyses the spatial distribution of fire occurrence in the country. The spatial units were …

Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to
understand the effects of institutional changes on agricultural land abandonment in different …