Anthropogenic land-use legacies underpin climate change-related risks to forest ecosystems.

Forest ecosystems with long-lasting human imprints can emerge worldwide as outcomes of land-use cessation. However, the interaction of these anthropogenic legacies with climate change impacts on forests is not well understood. Here, we set out how anthropogenic land-use legacies that persist in forest properties, following alterations in forest distribution, structure, and composition, can interact with climate change stressors.

Conflicting Frames about Ownership and Land Use Drive Wildfire Ignitions in a Protected Conservation Area.

The creation of protected conservation areas may result in protracted conflicts between stakeholders. In this study we examine the drivers of anthropogenic wildfire ignitions in the National Park of "los Alerces" (NPA) in Patagonia, Argentina. The NPA was established in 1937 to protect the native "andino-patagónico" forests from wildfires as well as preserving its scenic beauty and native flora and fauna.

Traditional fire use impact in the aboveground carbon stock of the chestnut forests of Central Spain and its implications for prescribed burning.

Chestnut forest ecosystems have a complex fire ecology; a result of centuries of co-evolution with pre-industrial era, cultural fire use by local communities based on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). As the "forest transition" unfolds throughout Europe however, and the traditional role of chestnut forest ecosystems as producers of edible nuts and firewood declines, chestnut forest resilience may be endangered due to disturbance regime changes driven by transformations in land use linked to the rural exodus, state fire exclusion policies and climate change. In this study we compared the aboveground carbon stocks of two chestnut forests located in Central Spain which can be considered representative of divergent Europe-wide management trends.