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A new study published in Global Change Biology reviews the potential impacts of climate change on the provision of ecosystem services and the risk of fire and other climatic risks linked to Mediterranean forests. Forests provide a wide range of provisioning, regulating and cultural services of great value to societies ...
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A new article published in Climatic Change reviews the major mechanisms behind the occurrence of novel extreme wildfire events occurred around the globe between 2016 and 2020. Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need ...
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Check out our important paper published in Science in which we highlight forward-looking methods for predicting the combined effects of human drivers and fire on biodiversity, and foreshadow emerging actions and strategies that could evolutionize how society manages fire for biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Fire has been a source of ...
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The box tree moth is an invasive species that impacts forests in Europe. What is its dynamic? What defines its impact pattern? What are the main factors determining its ecological niche? In this new publication in Ecology and Evolution we answer all these questions. Invasive species have considerably increased in ...
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Is the whole greater than the sum of his parts? In this new publication in Landscape Ecology, we performed a literature review to describe how insect pests interact with fire, drought, pollution and other disturbances and we discuss their role on forest landscape dynamics. Forest landscapes worldwide are shaped by ...
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The report shows that population sizes of vertebrates (fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals) and invertebrates (butterflies) have fallen an average of 25% in Catalonia since 2002. This trend has been calculated through an adaptation of the Living Planet Index (LPI); an indicator adopted by the United Nations to measure ...
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