In the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by its humid climate, large rural
areas are being abandoned, mostly in less-favoured areas covered by heathlands, which …

The comparison between modern terrestrial and marine pollen signals in and off western
Iberia shows that marine pollen assemblages give an integrated image of the regional …

The direct sea–land correlation applied to core MD99-2331 retrieved from the north-western
Iberian margin shows a two-phase pattern within Heinrich events 4, 2 and 1 in the ocean …

The environmental and socio-economic impacts of wildfires are foreseen to increase across
southern Europe over the next decades regardless of increasing resources allocated for fire …

Background Burn severity plays an important role in shaping vegetation recovery in
Mediterranean ecosystems. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the influence of burn …

Established plants may disrupt patterns of seed deposition by physically trapping dispersing
seed. In this study we quantified seed trapping at very fine spatial scales, by measuring seed …

Alpine grasslands are essential for carbon sequestration and food supply for domestic and
wild herbivores inhabiting mountainous areas worldwide. These biomes, however, are …

Understanding the effects of traditional livestock grazing abandonment on the ability of
mountain grasslands to sustain multiple ecosystem functions (ecosystem multifunctionality; …

Heathlands are considered biodiversity hotspots of high conservation interest. However,
they are at risk of degradation and disappearance in most parts of Europe mainly due to …

Intensive management has been proposed as a method of preserving European heathland
ecosystems, many of which have undergone a process of decline in the last decades. Non …