Biodiversity is considered to mitigate detrimental impacts of climate change on the
functioning of forest ecosystems, such as drought‐induced decline in forest productivity …

Featured Application The following research has a potential to provide a scientific basis for
the management of drought mitigation strategies. The trends in drought characteristics in …

The accumulation of fuel and the homogenization of the landscape in Mediterranean forests
are leading to an increasingly hazardous behavior of wildfires, fostering larger, more …

In the wake of a rapidly changing climate, droughts have intensified, in both duration and
severity, across the globe. The Germanwatch long-term Climate Risk Index ranks Pakistan …

Wildfires in the Mediterranean are strongly tied to human activities. Given their particular link
with humans, which act as both initiators and suppressors, wildfire hazard is highly sensitive …

The Northeast United States is a generally wet region that has had substantial increases in
mean precipitation over the past decades, but also experiences damaging droughts. We …

Vegetation optical depth (VOD) from microwave satellite observations has received much
attention in global vegetation studies in recent years due to its relationship to vegetation …

In response to changing climatic conditions, people are increasingly likely to migrate.
However, individual-level survey data reveal that people mainly state economic, social, or …

This paper discusses some methodological aspects of the historical analysis of drought,
particularly the trend assessment. The Standardized Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is …

Monitoring drought in real-time using minimal field data is a challenge for ecosystem
management and conservation. Most methods require extensive data collection and in-situ …