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Monitoring temporal changes in the spatial patterns of a Mediterranean shrubland using Landsat TM images
(Wiley Online Library, 2001-12-25)The overall goal of this study is to understand the structure and function of a Mediterranean shrubland at landscape scale by means of satellite images and GIS. Specifically, to assess the sensitivity of several spatial ... -
Applying a Robust Empirical Method for Comparing Repeated LiDAR Data with Different Point Density
(MDPI, 2022-02-25)A key aspect of vegetation monitoring from LiDAR is concerned with the use of comparable data acquired from multitemporal surveys and from different sensors. Accurate digital elevation models (DEMs) to derive vegetation ... -
Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives
(SAGE Journals, 2021-07-15)Changes in climate, land use, and land management impact the occurrence and severity of wildland fires in many parts of the world. This is particularly evident in Europe, where ongoing changes in land use have strongly ... -
Previous fire occurrence, but not fire recurrence, modulates the effect of charcoal and ash on soil C and N dynamics in Pinus pinaster Aiton forests
(Elsevier, 2022-01-01)Understanding the effects of fire history on soil processes is key to characterise their resistance and resilience under future fire events. Wildfires produce pyrogenic carbonaceous material (PCM) that is incorporated ... -
Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites
(Elsevier, 2021-02)Grasslands are widespread elements of urban greenspace providing recreational, psychological and aesthetic benefits to city residents. Two urban grassland types of contrasting management dominate urban greenspaces: ... -
Public attitudes toward biodiversity-friendly greenspace management in Europe
(Wiley, 2020-05-13)Increasing urbanization worldwide calls for more sustainable urban development. Simultaneously, the global biodiversity crisis accentuates the need of fostering biodi versity within cities. Policies supporting urban nature ... -
High fire frequency reduces soil fertility underneath woody plant canopies of Mediterranean ecosystems
(Elsevier, 2021-01-15)Spatial heterogeneity of soil properties plays a major role in regulating ecosystem structure and functioning. In general, soil resources accumulate beneath woody plant-covered patches more than in the open interspace, ... -
Mechanical Processing of Naturally Bent Organic Crystalline Optical Waveguides and Junctions
(Wiley-VCH, 2020-12-23)Precise mechanical processing of optical microcrystals involves complex microscale operations viz. moving, bending, lifting, and cutting of crystals. Some of these mechanical operations can be implemented by applying ... -
Postfire tree structure from high-resolution LiDAR and RBR Sentinel 2A fire severity metrics in a Pinus halepensis- dominated burned stand
(MDPI, 2020-10-30)Tree and plant structures remaining after fires reflect well their degree of consumption, and are therefore good indicators of fire severity. Satellite optical images are commonly used to estimate fire severity. However, ... -
The influence of topography and fire in controlling landscape composition and structure in Sierra de Gredos (Central Spain)
(Springer, 2008-05-14)Mediterranean landscapes are dynamic systems that undergo temporal changes in composition and structure in response to disturbances, such as fire. Neither landscape patterns nor driving factors that affect them are ... -
Modelling rates of ecosystem recovery after fires by using Landsat TM data
(Elsevier, 1997-09)The aim of this work consists of monitoring the recovery process after fire by means of satellite imagery. The objectives are to assess` the regrowth pathways followed by different species populations after a disturbance, ... -
Disentangling the role of prefire vegetation vs. burning conditions on fire severity in a large forest fire in SE Spain
(Elsevier, 2020-09)Fire severity is a function of dynamic interactions between vegetation and burning conditions. To understand the factors that control it, accurate methods for estimating prefire vegetation structure and composition as ... -
Conservation issues of temporary wetland Branchiopoda (Anostraca, Notostraca : Crustacea) in a semiarid agricultural landscape: What spatial scales are relevant?
(Elsevier, 2008-05-28)Ecologists increasingly recognise the importance of spatial scale for conservation. This study focuses on threatened temporary wetland crustaceans, the fairy shrimp Branchinecta orientalis Sars (Anostraca) and the tadpole ... -
No genetic adaptation of the Mediterranean keystone shrub Cistus ladanifer in response to experimental fire and extreme drought
(Public Library of Science, 2018-06-20)In Mediterranean ecosystems, climate change is projected to increase fire danger and summer drought, thus reducing post-fire recruitment of obligate seeder species, and possibly affecting the population genetic structure. ... -
Fire activity and burned forest lands decreased during the last three decades in Spain
(Springer LinkINRAE Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 2019-08-27)- Key messageFire activity has decreased in the last decades in Spain as a whole and in most provinces. However, fire riskfactors have increased. Wildfires are burning preferentially treeless areas. Flammable pine areas ... -
Assessing Landscape Fire Hazard by Multitemporal Automatic Classification of Landsat Time Series Using the Google Earth Engine in West-Central Spain
(MDPI, 2019-06-20)Annual Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) maps are needed to identify the interaction between landscape changes and wildland fires. Objectives: In this work, we determined fire hazard changes in a representative Mediterranean ... -
Wildfires and the role of their drivers are changing over time in a large rural area of west-central Spain
(Springer Nature, 2018)During the last decades, wildfires have been changing in many areas across the world, due to changes in climate, landscapes and socioeconomic drivers. However, how the role of these drivers changed over time has been ... -
Presence of plastic particles in waterbirds faeces collected in Spanish lakes
(2016)Plastic intake by marine vertebrates has been widely reported, but information about its presence in continental waterfowl is scarce. Here we analyzed faeces of waterbirds species (European coot, Fulica atra, mallard, Anas ... -
Spatial synchrony of wader populations in inland lakes of the Iberian Peninsula
(2016)Spatial synchronization refers to similarity in temporal variations between spatially separated populations. Three mechanisms have been associated with the spatial synchrony of populations: Moran effect, dispersal and ... -
Forest fire risk in Spain under future climate change
(PENSOFT, 2010)Forest fires play a dominant role in Spanish landscapes. During the last three decades, there were over 14,000 fires per year, which swept through ca. 200,000 ha. These fires burned a total of nearly 6 Mha, of a forested ...
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