The paper gives an overview on the trends in the usage of landscape metrics as indicators
for: land use changes, habitat functions (biodiversity, habitats), landscape regulating …

Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be
predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter …

This paper presents a new global burned area (BA) product, generated from the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) red (R) and near-infrared (NIR) reflectances …

Fire refugia are landscape elements that remain unburned or minimally affected by fire,
thereby supporting postfire ecosystem function, biodiversity, and resilience to disturbances …

Modified, more severe fire regimes are developing in the Mediterranean basin as a result of
changes in land use and climate. Current fire management privileges fire suppression and …

Rapid environmental change is placing increasing pressure on the survival of many species
globally. Ecological refuges can mitigate the impacts of change by facilitating the survival or …

Fire refugia, sometimes referred to as fire islands, shadows, skips, residuals, or fire
remnants, are an important element of the burn mosaic, but we lack a quantitative framework …

For decades, wildfire studies have utilized fire occurrence as the primary data source for
investigating the causes and effects of wildfire on the landscape. Fire occurrence data fall …

Wildfire refugia (unburnt patches within large wildfires) are important for the persistence of
fire‐sensitive species across forested landscapes globally. A key challenge is to identify the …

With the rapid development of China's economy, an increasing number of cities are building
forest parks or landscape forests to improve the quality of people's lives and protect the …