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For the next decades, climate in Mediterranean region is expected to be 25% warmer over the year than the rest of the planet, likely causing higher fire risks, longer fire seasons and more frequent, large, and severe fires. Understanding the processes shaping plant communities under fire is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science in this area: Is there a scheme of plant trait distribution and functional diversity in response to a gradient fire number and size in a Mediterranean ecosystem?
The results show no direct significant relationship between fire parameters and plant species. At the community level, however, the trait values narrowed to maximizing the efficiency of traits in a highly fire prone systems. In addition, seed mass, and wood density are closer to fire parameters in bidimensional PCA analysis than LNC and SLA variables.
