Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Forests are increasingly subject to a number of disturbances that can adversely influence
their health. Remote sensing offers an efficient alternative for assessing and monitoring …

Severe droughts limit tree growth and forest productivity worldwide, a phenomenon which is
expected to aggravate over the next decades. However, how drought intensity and climatic …

Drought-related tree mortality is a global phenomenon that currently affects a wide range of
forests. Key functional variables on plant hydraulics, carbon economy, growth and allocation …

Forest dieback is a high risk factor for the sustainability of these ecosystems in the climate
change context. Productivity losses and increased defoliation and mortality rates have …

In recent decades there has been a proliferation of studies concerning forest mortality events
due to increased stress, most of them focusing on climate change as the main cause. Here …

Forest ecosystems worldwide currently face worrying episodes of forest decline, which have
boosted weakening and mortality of the trees. In the Mediterranean region, especially in the …

Adaptive forest management (AFM) is an urgent need because of the uncertainty regarding
how changes in the climate will affect the structure, composition and function of forests …

Rached-Kanouni M, Zerrouki A, Lahmar M, Beldjazia A, Kara K, Ababsa. 2020. Assessment
of the health status of the Sidi R'Ghies forest, Oum El Bouaghi, north-east Algerian …

Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) is widely distributed in the Mediterranean region and in
other areas of the world, where it has been introduced due to its adaptive capacity to …