In recent decades, fire regimes have been modified by various factors such as changes in
land use, global change or forest management policies. The vulnerability of Mediterranean …

The soil microbiota is vulnerable to burning; however, it shows some resilience. No indices
have yet been developed to assess fire damage related to soil biota. We evaluated the …

Mediterranean forests will experience more frequent and intense drought periods and
extreme rainfall events in the coming decades. Concomitantly, drought-induced forest die-off …

After wildfires, emergency actions and post-fire management are implemented to mitigate
fire damage. Salvage logging is a tool often applied to burned stands, but despite being a …

This study examines the dynamics of land use and land cover change (LULCC) in the
Gargano area (Southern Italy) to reveal crucial insights into the socio-economic and …

Global change challenges ecosystems in xeric locations transformed by intensive human
use. Resilience to drought of relict Mediterranean Quercus pyrenaica populations in the …

Τhis is a review paper based on national and international literature, national inventories
and empirical approach. A general overview of the forests, forest management and forest …

Increased drought combined with extreme episodes of heatwaves is triggering severe
impacts on vegetation growth, particularly for plant communities in arid and semiarid …

Forest managers require reliable tools to evaluate post-fire recovery across different
geographic/climatic contexts and define management actions at the landscape scale, which …

A systematic literature review was undertaken to analyze the effects of climate change
concerning the forests in the Mediterranean region as it is a climate and a global hot spot of …