Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Key message Wildfire danger and burnt areas should increase over the century in southern
Europe, owing to climate warming. Fire-prone area expansion to the north and to …

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 …

During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of
megafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs). Here, we argue that current …

Wildfire activity is expected to increase across the Mediterranean Basin because of climate
change. However, the effects of future climate change on the combinations of atmospheric …

Efficient management of biodiversity requires a forward‐looking approach based on
scenarios that explore biodiversity changes under future environmental conditions. A …

Wildfires have been systematically studied from the early 1950s, with significant progress in
the applied computational methodologies during the 21st century. However, modern …

Forest fires are a serious environmental hazard in southern Europe. Quantitative
assessment of recent trends in fire statistics is important for assessing the possible shifts …

Climate and weather have long been noted as playing key roles in wildfire activity, and
global warming is expected to exacerbate fire impacts on natural and urban ecosystems …

Wildfires influence terrestrial carbon cycling and represent a safety risk, and yet a process-
based understanding of their frequency and spatial distributions remains elusive. We …