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Diego Varga, Josep Vila Subirós, Carles Barriocanal and Josep Pujantell
The analysis of past and present patterns of agrarian mountain areas allows researchers to characterize the influence of landscape heterogeneity on biodiversity, cultural heritage, and forest fire hazard. This process was mapped, quantified, and describe...
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Begoña De la Fuente and Pieter S. A. Beck
The expansion of invasive alien species is considered a major threat to forest ecosystems and biodiversity. Their potential impacts range from local changes in species composition to wider-scale effects on forest habitat and landscape functioning, althou...
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Rebecca Mary Bernadette Harris, Tomas Remenyi, Paul Fox-Hughes, Peter Love and Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Changes to the frequency of fire due to management decisions and climate change have the potential to affect the flammability of vegetation, with long-term effects on the vegetation structure and composition. Frequent fire in some vegetation types can le...
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Sam W. Wood, Timothy J. Wardlaw, Elizabeth C. Pryde and Susan C. Baker
Fire and timber harvesting can diminish the extent of older forests in the near term. The amount and configuration of mature and regenerating forest in the landscape (landscape structure) influences habitat suitability for mature-forest-associated specie...
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Chaobin Yang, Xingyuan He, Ranghu Wang, Fengqin Yan, Lingxue Yu, Kun Bu, Jiuchun Yang, Liping Chang and Shuwen Zhang
Urban green spaces have been shown to decrease land surface temperature (LST) significantly. However, few studies have explored the relationships between urban green spaces and LST across different seasons at different spatial scales. In this study, usin...
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