The S Iberian Peninsula and NW Africa constitute one of the main hotspots for plant
biodiversity within the Mediterranean Basin. At the core of this hotspot, across the Strait of …

Episodes of drought-induced tree dieback have been recently observed in many forest
areas of the world, particularly at the dry edge of species distributions. Under climate …

Here, we investigated the physiological and structural leaf responses of seedlings of two
evergreen and two deciduous Quercus species, grown in a glasshouse and subjected to …

Characterizing the responses of key tree species to extreme climatic events may provide
important information for predicting future forest responses to increased climatic variability …

Understanding seedling performance across resource gradients is crucial for defining the
regeneration niche of plant species under current environmental conditions and for …

Three hypotheses have been proposed to explain the functional relationship between seed
mass and seedling performance: the reserve effect (larger seeds retain a larger proportion of …

Tree recruitment in M editerranean ecosystems is strongly limited at the seedling stage by
drought. Increasing evidence shows the critical positive role of the canopy nurse effect on …

Aims Both human and non‐human determinants have shaped Mediterranean forest
structure over the last few millennia. The effects of recent human activities on forest …

Facilitative interactions among plants enable a species persist in stressful environments, but
its use as a restoration technique of plant cover in degraded man-made ecosystems …

Understanding the impacts of combined resource supplies on seedlings is critical to enable
prediction of establishment growth, and forest dynamics. We investigated the effects of …