Fire is one of the dominant disturbances in forests that widely impacts the ecology,
environment, and socioeconomics of nations across the globe. In view of setting priorities of …

The socio-cultural valuation of forest ecosystem services is a useful tool to generate
knowledge and help balance the different interests of stakeholders with respect to the …

The increasing demand for innovative forest management strategies to adapt to and mitigate
climate change and benefit forest production, the so-called Climate-Smart Forestry, calls for …

Finding strategies and measures to prevent and mitigate wildfires is at the top of the socio-
political agendas in Europe. This is due to an increase in the recurrence and intensity of …

Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) are widely recognised by the society nowadays. However,
no study in the literature has analysed a ranking of FES after the pandemic. This paper …

Forest management is currently challenged by the need to address an increasing demand
for a wide range of ecosystem services. Addressing this challenge requires landscape-level …

Olive groves are key elements of the Mediterranean basin landscape. In southern Italy, olive
polycultural systems are predominant over specialized ones. These systems occupy …

Plant roots play a key role in stabilizing slopes, particularly in the Mediterranean region,
characterized by rough and unstable terrain. However, forest species differ in their …

In the last few years, the occurrence and abundance of tree-related microhabitats and
habitat trees have gained great attention across Europe as indicators of forest biodiversity …

Research background: Protected areas (PAs) play a fundamental role in the maintenance of
ecosystem processes and in the flow of ecosystem services (ESs) they provide. However …