In Japan, abandonment of forest management and underuse of forest resources are
substantial challenges to environmental protection and sustainable wood production, while …

A widespread increase in forest cover is underway in northern Mediterranean forests
because of land abandonment and decreased wood demand, but the resilience of these …

We are currently witnessing significant global changes in climate conditions. We cannot
change the natural conditions, but with regard to sustainable landscape management, we …

Abstract Changes in the structure and development of managed Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris
L.) stands with respect to changing environmental conditions were set for the period 1979 …

In the Mediterranean, non-serotinous pinewoods are suffering an increasing occurrence of
high-severity crown fires that usually drive vegetation shifts to fire-adapted communities and …

Previous investigations of the role of pathogens as drivers of community dynamics in forests
have mostly focused on interspecific interactions between canopy trees and seedlings via …

Mixed forests have been proposed as a tool for more flexible wood production that
simultaneously improves conditions for biodiversity and various social demands. Therefore …

Shrubs have been shown to facilitate tree seedling establishment in open Mediterranean
ecosystem habitats, but their effects in forests have been much less explored. We …

A long history of human influence, including large-scale afforestation with pines and
changes in land-management and conservation priorities, have strongly affected the …

Agricultural abandonment followed by vegetation succession is a major land use and land
cover (LULC) change in Europe. Such a dynamic has critical consequences on biodiversity …