Plants are exposed to heterogeneity in the environment where new stress factors (ie, climate
change, land use change, and invasiveness) are introduced, and where inter‐and …

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 …

Shade, in ecological sense, is not merely a lack of light, but a multi-faceted phenomenon
that creates new and complex settings for community and ecosystem dynamics. Tolerating …

Forest trees are exposed to a myriad of single and combined stresses with varying strength
and duration throughout their lifetime, and many of the simultaneous and successive stress …

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of
new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora …

After a millenarian history of overexploitation, most forests in the Mediterranean Basin have
disappeared, leaving many degraded landscapes that have been recolonized by early …

Aim Biodiversity loss could reduce primary productivity and the carbon storage provided by
forests; however, the mechanisms underpinning the effects of biodiversity on multiple …

Most large‐scale multispecies studies of tree growth have been conducted in tropical and
cool temperate forests, whereas Mediterranean water‐limited ecosystems have received …

Many forest types globally have been subject to an increase in the frequency of, and area
burnt by, high‐severity wildfire. Here we explore the role that previous disturbance has …

Drought and heat-induced forest dieback and mortality are emerging global concerns.
Although Mediterranean-type forest (MTF) ecosystems are considered to be resilient to …