Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

D Thom, R Seidl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands

JV Roces‐Díaz, C Santín… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a primary disturbance in the world's forested ecosystems and its impacts are
projected to increase in many regions due to global climate change. Fire impacts have been …

[HTML][HTML] Fire severity and soil erosion susceptibility mapping using multi-temporal Earth Observation data: The case of Mati fatal wildfire in Eastern Attica, Greece

N Efthimiou, E Psomiadis, P Panagos - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, forest fires have increased in terms of frequency, extent and intensity,
especially in Mediterranean countries. Climate characteristics and anthropogenic …

Evaluating and comparing Sentinel 2A and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) spectral indices for estimating fire severity in a Mediterranean pine ecosystem of …

G Mallinis, I Mitsopoulos, I Chrysafi - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The main purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between three field-based fire
severity indices (Composite Burn Index-CBI, Geometrically structure CBI, weighted CBI) and …

An economic, perception and biophysical approach to the use of oat straw as mulch in Mediterranean rainfed agriculture land

A Cerdà, J Rodrigo-Comino, A Giménez-Morera… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil erosion is a key cause of land degradation in agriculture lands; and it is a worldwide
threat that must be solved by means of nature-based strategies to be able to achieve …

[HTML][HTML] Landslide susceptibility mapping based on landslide history and analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

D Myronidis, C Papageorgiou, S Theophanous - Natural Hazards, 2016 - Springer
Landslide phenomena are responsible for significant economic damages, loss of human
lives and irreversible changes in natural environment. In this manuscript, in a landslide …

Pre/post-fire soil erosion and evaluation of check-dams effectiveness in mediterranean suburban catchments based on field measurements and modeling

S Margiorou, A Kastridis, M Sapountzis - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The present study was conducted in the suburban forest of Thessaloniki city (Seich Sou),
which constitutes one of the most significant suburban forests in Greece. In 1997, more than …

Assessment of Water-Induced Soil Erosion as a Threat to Natura 2000 Protected Areas in Crete Island, Greece

S Stefanidis, V Alexandridis, K Ghosal - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water erosion is a major threat to biodiversity, according to the European Commission's Soil
Thematic Strategy, as it negatively affects soil structure, soil fertility and water availability for …

Assessment of k-nearest neighbor and random forest classifiers for mapping forest fire areas in central portugal using landsat-8, sentinel-2, and terra imagery

AP Pacheco, JAS Junior, AM Ruiz-Armenteros… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest fires threaten the population's health, biomass, and biodiversity, intensifying the
desertification processes and causing temporary damage to conservation areas. Remote …

A cloud-based mapping approach for assessing spatiotemporal changes in erosion dynamics due to biotic and abiotic disturbances in a Mediterranean Peri-Urban …

S Stefanidis, V Alexandridis, G Mallinis - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
During the last decades, the demographic trajectory and the associated urban development
have increased the demand for urban and peri-urban green space. Peri-urban forests …