The loss of resilience and prolonged recovery times after extreme climate events can be used as early warning signals of impending tipping points or abrupt irreversible changes. However, evidence of such critical slowing down in growth series is still lacking in terrestrial ecosystems under harsh...

The population dynamics and individual growth dynamics of dominant tree species in boreal forests are associated with fire regimes. Fire regimes in the boreal forests of eastern Siberia are dominated by non-stand replacing (NSR) fire types. Fire drives population demographics by triggering tree...

Understanding temporal and spatial variations in historical disturbance regimes across intact, continuous, and altitudinally diverse primary forest landscapes is imperative to help forecast forest development and adapt forest management in an era of rapid environmental change. Because few complex...

Forest plantations are more vulnerable to the stress induced by biotic and abiotic factors than are naturally regenerated forests. These effects can be aggravated by a lack of management in large reforestation areas, and thinning could, therefore, help trees to reduce dieback and tree mortality...

Currently, few studies involve spatial modeling of the environment where trees grow in the identification of potential sites for dendrochronological data collection in Mexico. The present study aimed to model the environmental suitability to identify potential sites for dendrochronological data...

Introduction: There is growing public awareness in Mexico concerning natural resources and, in particular, the threat they face due to the increase in the number of forest fires. Objective: To reconstruct the fire records of a 66-year period (1945-2011) and analyze its relationship with climate...

Chronological data on recent debris-flow activity in the Eastern Meditteranean are fragmentary, limiting a proper assessment of future geomorphic risk. This is especially true if these processes occur on collapsed slopes that predispose their occurrence. This paper reports on the long-term...

Cultural layers are soil-sedimentary formations transformed by human activity. Unlike other anthropogenic soils/horizons, the cultural layers representing ancient cemeteries at archaeological sites are rather rarely studied. This research characterises the cultural layer of the eponymous cemetery...

The study of the species that present dendrochronological potential is important and is the basis for more complex investigations that help to understand forests through dendrochronological techniques. We evaluated the dendrochronological potential of the species Zanthoxylum rhoifolium Lam.. In a...

Aims: Woody plant encroachment is a widespread phenomenon affecting treeless or sparsely treed habitats. We aimed to determine the extent and timing of tree and shrub encroachment into rock barrens of eastern Ontario over the last century, and to assess implications for their ongoing management....