Fire-induced deforestation in drought-prone Mediterranean forests: drivers and unknowns from leaves to communities

Assessment of the impacts of climate change on Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems based on data from field experiments and long-term monitored field gradients in Catalonia

(2018) Josep Peñuelas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Review on fire effects on ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, an unachieved work for a scalding topic

(2017) Adrien Taudière et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Is silviculture able to enhance wild forest mushroom resources? Current knowledge and future perspectives

(2017) Antonio Tomao et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Post-fire environments are favourable for plant functioning of seeder and resprouter Mediterranean shrubs, even under drought

(2017) Antonio Parra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gas exchange recovery following natural drought is rapid unless limited by loss of leaf hydraulic conductance: evidence from an evergreen woodland

(2017) Robert P. Skelton et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predation on Early Recruitment in Mediterranean Forests after Prescribed Fires

(2017) Javier Sagra et al.   Forests

Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems

(2017) Enric Batllori et al.   Ecosphere

Diversifying sub-Mediterranean pinewoods with oak species in a context of assisted migration: responses to local climate and light environment

(2016) Santiago Martín-Alcón et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climate change and the eco-hydrology of fire: Will area burned increase in a warming western USA?

(2016) Donald McKenzie et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Bottom-Up Variables Govern Large-Fire Size in Portugal

(2016) Paulo M. Fernandes et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Reproductive output, seed anatomy and germination under water stress in the seeder Cistus ladanifer subjected to experimental drought

(2016) D. Chamorro et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes

(2016) Matthias M Boer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Reforestation with resprouter species to increase diversity and resilience in Mediterranean pine forests

(2016) M.E. Granados et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest shifts induced by fire and management legacies in a Pinus pinaster woodland

(2016) Iván Torres et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Unraveling the relative importance of factors driving post-fire regeneration trajectories in non-serotinous Pinus nigra forests

(2016) Santiago Martín-Alcón et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large-scale, dynamic transformations in fuel moisture drive wildfire activity across southeastern Australia

(2016) R. H. Nolan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Disentangling the effect of competition, CO2and climate on intrinsic water-use efficiency and tree growth

(2016) Laura Fernández-de-Uña et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

(2016) Sonia I. Seneviratne et al.   NATURE

Bark thickness across the angiosperms: more than just fire

(2016) Julieta A. Rosell   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Experimental evidence for heat plume-induced cavitation and xylem deformation as a mechanism of rapid post-fire tree mortality

(2016) Adam G. West et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fires can benefit plants by disrupting antagonistic interactions

(2016) Y. García et al.   OECOLOGIA

Toward an index of desiccation time to tree mortality under drought

(2016) Chris J. Blackman et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Why is the world green? The interactions of top–down and bottom–up processes in terrestrial vegetation ecology

(2016) David M. Wilkinson et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Sequence of plant responses to droughts of different timescales: lessons from holm oak (Quercus ilex) forests

(2016) Adrià Barbeta et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Decreasing Fires in Mediterranean Europe

(2016) Marco Turco et al.   PLoS One

Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in response to climate warming

(2016) Tatiana A. Shestakova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire-induced pine woodland to shrubland transitions in Southern Europe may promote shifts in soil fertility

(2016) A.G. Mayor et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Post-fire soil functionality and microbial community structure in a Mediterranean shrubland subjected to experimental drought

(2016) M. Belén Hinojosa et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Intraspecific variation in juvenile tree growth under elevated CO2alone and with O3: a meta-analysis

(2016) Víctor Resco de Dios et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

When fire acts like an irrigation: competition release after burning enhances growth

(2016) Víctor Resco de Dios   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Demographic controls of future global fire risk

(2016) W. Knorr et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biophysical Mechanistic Modelling Quantifies the Effects of Plant Traits on Fire Severity: Species, Not Surface Fuel Loads, Determine Flame Dimensions in Eucalypt Forests

(2016) Philip Zylstra et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns in the sensitivity of burned area to fire-weather: Implications for climate change

(2015) Joaquín Bedia et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Mycorrhizal strategies of tree species correlate with trailing range edge responses to current and past climate change

(2015) Richard A. Lankau et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire activity as a function of fire–weather seasonal severity and antecedent climate across spatial scales in southern Europe and Pacific western USA

(2015) Itziar R Urbieta et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland–shrubland–woodland systems

(2015) Enric Batllori et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species

(2015) Saskia Grootemaat et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predictive modelling of fire occurrences from different fire spread patterns in Mediterranean landscapes

(2015) Andrea Duane et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

A generic, empirical-based model for predicting rate of fire spread in shrublands

(2015) Wendy R. Anderson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

On the pyrophytism in the Mediterranean area

(2015) Angelo Troia et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Attributing forest responses to global-change drivers: limited evidence of a CO2-fertilization effect in Iberian pine growth

(2015) J. Julio Camarero et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Does soil burn severity affect the post-fire runoff and interrill erosion response? A review based on meta-analysis of field rainfall simulation data

(2015) D.C.S. Vieira et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Coordination of physiological traits involved in drought-induced mortality of woody plants

(2015) Maurizio Mencuccini et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size

(2015) William K. Cornwell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Towards understanding resprouting at the global scale

(2015) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire increases the risk of higher soil N2O emissions from Mediterranean Macchia ecosystems

(2015) K. Karhu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Bud vigor, budburst lipid peroxidation, and hormonal changes during bud development in healthy and moribund beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) trees

(2015) Marta Juvany et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Post-fire Aleppo pine growth, C and N isotope composition depend on site dryness

(2015) Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Evidence of vulnerability segmentation in a deciduous Mediterranean oak (Quercus subpyrenaica E. H. del Villar)

(2015) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Senescence: Is It Universal or Not?

(2015) Sergi Munné-Bosch   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Modelling the Meteorological Forest Fire Niche in Heterogeneous Pyrologic Conditions

(2015) Antonella De Angelis et al.   PLoS One

A succession of theories: purging redundancy from disturbance theory

(2014) Stephanie A. Pulsford et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Bark thickness and fire regime

(2014) Juli G. Pausas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Flammability of litter sampled according to two different methods: comparison of results in laboratory experiments

(2014) Anne Ganteaume et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fire history of Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica Manetti) in Mount Chélia, northern Algeria

(2014) S. Slimani et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Costs of female reproduction in a conifer tree: a whole-tree level assessment

(2014) Luis Santos-del-Blanco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mushroom production as an alternative for rural development in a forested mountainous area

(2014) José A. Bonet et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Transitions from grassland to savanna under drought through passive facilitation by grasses

(2014) Víctor Resco de Dios et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation

(2014) William R. L. Anderegg   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

(2014) Jonàs Oliva et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought and resprouting plants

(2014) Melanie J. B. Zeppel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biomass-modulated fire dynamics during the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition at the Central Pyrenees (Spain)

(2014) Graciela Gil-Romera et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Wildfire Selectivity for Land Cover Type: Does Size Matter?

(2014) Ana M. G. Barros et al.   PLoS One

Seedling Responses to Water Pulses in Shrubs with Contrasting Histories of Grassland Encroachment

(2014) Steven R. Woods et al.   PLoS One

Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought

(2014) C. Grossiord et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Post-fire restoration of beech stands in the Southern Alps by natural regeneration

(2013) D. Ascoli et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States

(2013) Phillip J. van Mantgem et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Insulation capacity of three bark types of temperate Eucalyptus species

(2013) Anita Wesolowski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mortality of resprouting chaparral shrubs after a fire and during a record drought: physiological mechanisms and demographic consequences

(2013) R. Brandon Pratt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change-induced shifts in fire for Mediterranean ecosystems

(2013) Enric Batllori et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global fire-productivity relationship

(2013) Juli G. Pausas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring shifts in tree species distribution using asymmetric distribution curves: a case study in the Iberian mountains

(2013) Morgane Urli et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Field evidence of smoke-stimulated seedling emergence and establishment in Mediterranean Basin flora

(2013) J. Tormo et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Growth and carbon isotopes of Mediterranean trees reveal contrasting responses to increased carbon dioxide and drought

(2013) Elena Granda et al.   OECOLOGIA

Elevated [CO2] does not ameliorate the negative effects of elevated temperature on drought-induced mortality inEucalyptus radiataseedlings

(2013) HONGLANG DUAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Regional estimation of woodland moisture content by inverting Radiative Transfer Models

(2013) Sara Jurdao et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Ecology and evolution of pine life histories

(2012) Jon E. Keeley   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Pathways for resilience in Mediterranean cork oak land use systems

(2012) Vanda Acácio et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Host Preferences of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonizing Annual Herbaceous Plant Species in Semiarid Mediterranean Prairies

(2012) E. Torrecillas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Differences in morpho-physiological leaf traits reflect the response of growth to drought in a seeder but not in a resprouter Mediterranean species

(2012) David A. Ramírez et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Fire and the Angiosperm Revolutions

(2012) William J. Bond et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Assessing the effect of foliar moisture on the spread rate of crown fires

(2012) Martin E. Alexander et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Economically profitable post fire restoration with black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) producing plantations

(2012) Juan Martínez de Aragón et al.   NEW FORESTS

Flammability as a biological concept

(2012) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant flammability experiments offer limited insight into vegetation-fire dynamics interactions

(2012) Paulo M. Fernandes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Moving beyond the cambium necrosis hypothesis of post-fire tree mortality: cavitation and deformation of xylem in forest fires

(2012) S. T. Michaletz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire History In European Black Pine (Pinus nigra Arn.) Forests of the Valia Kalda, Pindus Mountains, Greece

(2012) Ramzi Touchan et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Drought-induced decline in Mediterranean truffle harvest

(2012) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Nature Climate Change

Ecological and climatic controls of modern wildfire activity patterns across southwestern South America

(2012) Andrés Holz et al.   Ecosphere

Seedling establishment along post-fire succession in Mediterranean shrublands dominated by obligate seeders

(2011) Victor M. Santana et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evaluation of the flammability of gorse (Ulex europaeus L.) managed by prescribed burning

(2011) Javier Madrigal et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime

(2011) Juli G. Pausas et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Post-wildfire soil erosion in the Mediterranean: Review and future research directions

(2011) R.A. Shakesby   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fire resistance of tree species explains historical gallery forest community composition

(2011) Benjamin L. VanderWeide et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest composition in Mediterranean mountains is projected to shift along the entire elevational gradient under climate change

(2011) Diego Ruiz-Labourdette et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disturbance intensity and seasonality affect the resprouting ability of the neotropical dry-forest tree Acacia pennatula: do resources stored below-ground matter?

(2011) Guille Peguero et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Successional trends in standing dead biomass in Mediterranean basin species

(2011) M.J. Baeza et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Common environmental factors explain both ectomycorrhizal species diversity and pine regeneration variability in a post-fire Mediterranean forest

(2011) Erika Buscardo et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Soil seed bank, fire season, and temporal patterns of germination in a seeder-dominated Mediterranean shrubland

(2011) Blanca Céspedes et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Bark thickness determines fire resistance of selected tree species from fire-prone tropical savanna in north Australia

(2011) Michael J. Lawes et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

(2011) J. Carnicer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

(2011) Jon E. Keeley et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

TURNER REVIEW No. 19. Savanna woody plant dynamics: the role of fire and herbivory, separately and synergistically

(2010) Jeremy J. Midgley et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Structural and climatic determinants of demographic rates of Scots pine forests across the Iberian Peninsula

(2010) Albert Vilà-Cabrera et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Feedbacks between fuel reduction and landscape homogenisation determine fire regimes in three Mediterranean areas

(2010) Lasse Loepfe et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Old-field secondary succession in SE Spain: can fire divert it?

(2010) Victor M. Santana et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Salvage Logging Versus the Use of Burnt Wood as a Nurse Object to Promote Post-Fire Tree Seedling Establishment

(2010) Jorge Castro et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Contribution of Semi-Arid Forests to the Climate System

(2010) E. Rotenberg et al.   SCIENCE

How do fires kill plants? The hydraulic death hypothesis and Cape Proteaceae “fire-resisters”

(2010) J.J. Midgley et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Little evidence for fire-adapted plant traits in Mediterranean climate regions

(2010) S. Don Bradshaw et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

A Way Forward for Fire-Caused Tree Mortality Prediction: Modeling a Physiological Consequence of Fire

(2010) Kathleen L. Kavanagh et al.   Fire Ecology

Belowground starch consumption after recurrent severe disturbance in three resprouter species of the genus Erica

(2009) Susana Paula et al.   Botany

Facilitated establishment of Quercus ilex in shrub-dominated communities within a Mediterranean ecosystem: do mycorrhizal partners matter?

(2009) Franck Richard et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Evaluating predictive models of critical live fuel moisture in the Santa Monica Mountains, California

(2009) Philip E. Dennison et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Seed provenance and fire-related reproductive traits ofPinus pinasterin central Spain

(2009) Luis Gil et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage

(2009) Jon E. Keeley   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The survival of the ‘natural potential vegetation’ concept (or the power of tradition)

(2009) José S Carrión et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Alternative community states maintained by fire in the Klamath Mountains, USA

(2009) Dennis C. Odion et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A soil heat and water transfer model to predict belowground grass rhizome bud death in a grass fire

(2009) Joanna Choczynska et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Are drought and wildfires turning Mediterranean cork oak forests into persistent shrublands?

(2008) Vanda Acácio et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

A biophysical process model of tree mortality in surface fires

(2008) S. T. Michaletz et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

EARLY TO RISE MAKES A PLANT HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE

(2008) M. de Luis et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire resistance of European pines

(2008) Paulo M. Fernandes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changing feedbacks in the climate–biosphere system

(2008) F Stuart Chapin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Testing the correlations between leaf life span and leaf structural reinforcement in 13 species of European Mediterranean woody plants

(2008) S. Mediavilla et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Drought-induced tree death in savanna

(2008) R. J. FENSHAM et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Are wildfires a disaster in the Mediterranean basin? – A review

(2008) Juli G. Pausas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Drought-induced hydraulic limitations constrain leaf gas exchange recovery after precipitation pulses in the C3 woody legume, Prosopis velutina

(2008) Víctor Resco et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

(2008) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Shifts in the regeneration niche of an endangered tree (Acer opalus ssp. granatense) during ontogeny: Using an ecological concept for application

(2007) José L Quero et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Forest structure and fire history in an old Pinus nigra forest, eastern Spain

(2007) Peter Z. Fulé et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT