There has been a large decline in the managed pastures of Mediterranean European countries. This has led to decreased biodiversity in the herbaceous layer, shrub encroachment and accumulation of fuel biomass (woody plants). This, in turn, has increased the risk of large forest fires. Consequently...

The shrubland communities of Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix, as in other types of West European shrublands, are so linked to human activity that the abandonment of their traditional uses in recent times has altered their areas. These communities form part of the typical mountain mosaic landscape ...

Two Galician moorland communities, one dominated by Pterospartum tridentatum and Erica umbellata and the other by Cytisus striatus, were ecologically characterized, and their recovery after a traditional use of fire to obtain pasture for grazing was evaluated. The study was carried out in A Serra...