The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions—the lives and homes lost, the expense of
suppression and the damage to ecosystem services—necessitate a more sustainable …

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 …

Wildfires increased dramatically in frequency and extent in the European Mediterranean
region from the 1960s, aided by a general warming and drying trend, but driven primarily by …

Land abandonment is common in the Mediterranean Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, but
little is known about its impacts on biodiversity. To upscale existing case-study insights to the …

The Mediterranean area is one of the most significantly altered hotspots on Earth, since it
has been intensively affected by human activity for millennia. As a result, only 4.7% of its …

The long history of substantial human impacts on the landscape of the Mediterranean
region, and their effects on fluvial systems, is documented. These effects have included …

The role of land use dynamics on shallow landslide susceptibility remains an unresolved
problem. Thus, this work aims to assess the influence of land use changes on shallow …

Agricultural land abandonment and the consequent natural forest regrowth in areas once
cultivated has significantly transformed Alpine ecosystems and landscapes. In this paper, we …

Question: Which are the structural attributes and the history of old‐growth Fagus forest in
Mediterranean montane environments? What are the processes underlying their structural …

Lack of tree regeneration and persistency of species-poor shrublands represent a growing
problem across Mediterranean evergreen oak forests. What constrains forest regeneration is …