Mediterranean fire regime effects on pine-oak forest landscape mosaics under global change in NE Spain

2016 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assu Gil-Tena ◽  
Núria Aquilué ◽  
Andrea Duane ◽  
Miquel De Cáceres ◽  
Lluís Brotons
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Oak Forest ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Landscape Mosaics ◽  
Ne Spain

scholarly journals Forest landscape mosaics: disturbance, restoration, and management at times of global change

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. v-vi ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalev Jõgiste ◽  
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson ◽  
Timo Kuuluvainen ◽  
Sylvie Gauthier ◽  
W. Keith Moser
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Landscape Mosaics

Simulating impact of larch caterpillar (Dendrolimus superans) on fire regime and forest landscape in Da Hinggan Mountains, Northeast China

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Chen ◽  
Yuanman Hu ◽  
Yu Chang ◽  
Rencang Bu ◽  
Yuehui Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Da Hinggan Mountains ◽  
Dendrolimus Superans

scholarly journals Historic Fire Regime of an Upland Oak Forest in South-Central North America

Fire Ecology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan D. DeSantis ◽  
Stephen W. Hallgren ◽  
David W. Stahle
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Oak Forest ◽  
South Central

scholarly journals Sessile oak forest plant community changes on the NE Iberian Peninsula over recent decades

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 894-906
Author(s):  
Jordi Bou ◽  
Lluís Vilar
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Oak Forests ◽  
Oak Forest ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Sessile Oak ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Coastal Range

AbstractAimsOur aims were 3-fold: (i) to determine whether global change has altered the composition and structure of the plant community found in the sessile oak forests on the NE Iberian Peninsula over the last decades, (ii) to establish whether the decline in forest exploitation activities that has taken place since the mid-20th century has had any effect on the forests and (iii) to ascertain whether there is any evidence of impact from climate warming.MethodsWe assess changes in the plant community by comparing a current survey of sessile oak forest with a historical data set obtained from previous regional studies dating from 1962 to 1977. We analyse the regional changes in the community in terms of biodiversity variables, species composition and plant traits. Furthermore, plants traits such as plant life forms and chorological groups are used to discern any effects from land-use changes and climate warming on the plant community.Important FindingsThere has been a loss of diversity in the community and, in the hottest region, there is also a loss of species richness. The composition of the community suggests that, although significant changes have taken place over recent decades, these changes differ between regions as a result of the low impact global change has had in the western regions. For instance, while the tree canopy cover in the western sessile oak forests remains stable, the eastern sessile oak forests are still recovering from the former exploitation that led to a loss of their rich and abundant herbaceous stratum. In fact, the recovery process in the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range has constituted an increase in the Euro-Siberian plants typical to this community. Moreover, in the eastern forests, there is evidence that climate warming has impacted the thermophilization of the sessile oak forests found on the Coastal Range.

scholarly journals Fire history in Andean Araucaria–Nothofagus forests: coupled influences of past human land-use and climate on fire regimes in north-west Patagonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro E. González ◽  
Ariel A. Muñoz ◽  
Álvaro González-Reyes ◽  
Duncan A. Christie ◽  
Jason Sibold
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Araucaria Forest ◽  
North West ◽  
Human Land Use ◽  
Nothofagus Forests

Historical fire regimes are critical for understanding the potential effects of changing climate and human land-use on forest landscapes. Fire is a major disturbance process affecting the Andean Araucaria forest landscape in north-west Patagonia. The main goals of this study were to reconstruct the fire history of the Andean Araucaria–Nothofagus forests and to evaluate the coupled influences of climate and humans on fire regimes. Reconstructions of past fires indicated that the Araucaria forest landscape has been shaped by widespread, stand-replacing fires favoured by regional interannual climate variability related to major tropical and extratropical climate drivers in the southern hemisphere. Summer precipitation and streamflow reconstructions tended to be below average during fire years. Fire events were significantly related to positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode and to warm and dry summers following El Niño events. Although Euro-Chilean settlement (1883–1960) resulted in widespread burning, cattle ranching by Pehuenche Native Americans during the 18th and 19th centuries also appears to have changed the fire regime. In the context of climate change, two recent widespread wildfires (2002 and 2015) affecting Araucaria forests appear to be novel and an early indication of a climate change driven shift in fire regimes in north-west Patagonia.

Fauna of the grassland-forest landscape mosaics of the Bunya Mountains, eastern Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-310
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Smith ◽  
Roderick Fensham ◽  
Daniel Ferguson ◽  
Luke Hogan ◽  
Michael Mathieson
Keyword(s):  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Landscape Mosaics ◽  
Eastern Australia

GLOBAL CHANGE INFLUENCE ON WINE QUALITY IN PRIORAT AND MONTSANT (NE SPAIN)

2012 ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. de Herralde ◽  
R. Savé ◽  
M. Nadal ◽  
E. Pla ◽  
J.A. Lopez-Bustins
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Wine Quality ◽  
Ne Spain
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