Response to Extreme Weather in Mediterranean Forests

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to discuss the effects of storms in forests of the Mediterranean semi-arid climate. As it is well known, the Mediterranean environment (such as in Southern Italy and Spain), is subject to hot and dry summers and seasonal high magnitude rainfall/floods, often causing hydro-geological instability and disruption as a consequence of specific local conditions (e.g., small drainage basins, very erodible soils, steep slopes). In this context, forests often play, among others, a mitigating role, although in an era of climate change the effectiveness of their action varies in response to changing ecological conditions. The study of the forests response to these events, even the extreme ones, is of fundamental importance because, even if originating in remote mountain areas, the disruptive effects of storm/floods often propagate to valley urban areas.

For these reasons, in this Special Issue of Atmosphere we are calling for submissions of reviews and interdisciplinary research to illustrate current advances on the issue and to be useful for a broad, interdisciplinary audience.

Dr. Antonino Labate
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Bombino
Prof. Dr. Pasquale A. Marziliano
Guest Editors

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