Ecosystem services provision by Mediterranean forests will be compromised above 2℃ warming

A Morán‐Ordóñez, J Ramsauer, L Coll… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forests provide a wide range of provisioning, regulating and cultural services of great value
to societies across the Mediterranean basin. In this study, we reviewed the scientific …

Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire events

A Duane, M Castellnou, L Brotons - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire
regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing the potential of prescribed burning for the biodiversity conservation of European grasslands

O Valkó, B Deák - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Prescribed burning (PB), the planned and controlled application of fire, is a well-established
tool for biodiversity conservation in a plethora of habitats globally. In European grasslands …

Future trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services in Mediterranean forests under global change scenarios

A Morán-Ordóñez, A Ameztegui, M De Cáceres… - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Mediterranean forests play a key role in providing services and goods to society, and are
currently threatened by global change. We assessed the future provision of ecosystem …

Future impact of climate extremes in the Mediterranean: Soil erosion projections when fire and extreme rainfall meet

A Morán‐Ordóñez, A Duane, A Gil‐Tena… - Land Degradation & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change projections over the Mediterranean basin point toward an increase in
frequency and intensity of extreme events that will directly impact ecosystems resilience. In …

[HTML][HTML] Mountain farmland protection and fire-smart management jointly reduce fire hazard and enhance biodiversity and carbon sequestration

S Pais, N Aquilué, J Campos, Â Sil, B Marcos… - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] What is a fire resilient landscape? Towards an integrated definition

FEN Thacker, MC Ribau, H Bartholomeus, CR Stoof - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
The concept of fire resilience has become increasingly relevant as society looks to
understand and respond to recent wildfire events. In particular, the idea of a 'fire resilient …

Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let's be fire-smart!

A Regos, S Pais, JC Campos… - International journal of …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Extreme wildfires are expected to increase in Southern Europe, due to climate change and
rural abandonment. Fire management is focused on suppression, which accelerates the …

[HTML][HTML] Development of comprehensive fuel management strategies for reducing wildfire risk in Greece

P Palaiologou, K Kalabokidis, AA Ager, MA Day - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
A solution to the growing problem of catastrophic wildfires in Greece will require a more
holistic fuel management strategy that focuses more broadly on landscape fire behavior and …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping opportunities for the use of land management strategies to address fire risk in Europe

AN Neidermeier, C Zagaria, V Pampanoni… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many parts of Europe face increasing challenges managing wildfires. Although wildfire is an
integral part of certain ecosystems, fires in many places are becoming larger and more …