Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Wildfires increased dramatically in frequency and extent in the European Mediterranean
region from the 1960s, aided by a general warming and drying trend, but driven primarily by …

Forest fire disaster is currently the subject of intense research worldwide. The development
of accurate strategies to prevent potential impacts and minimize the occurrence of disastrous …

Fire is a dominant ecological factor in Mediterranean ecosystems, and changes in the fire
regime can have important consequences for the stability of our landscapes. In this …

Disturbance is a dominant factor in many ecosystems, and the disturbance regime is likely to
change over the next decades in response to land‐use changes and global warming. We …

Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international
environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and …

In many parts of the world, forests are likely to face novel disturbance regimes as a result of
global change processes, and there is concern that the capacity of forest ecosystems to …

With the accumulating evidence of changing disturbance regimes becoming increasingly
obvious, there is potential for disturbance ecology to become the most valuable lens through …

Pines have been extensively used for land restoration in the Mediterranean basin and in
other parts of the world, since the late 19 th century. The theoretical basis supporting pine …

Time series of the total annual burnt area in Portugal reveal two main features, a large inter-
annual variability and a positive trend since the early 80s. Here we show that inter-annual …