“…In contrast, the less Mediterranean species were more fragmented in the FTs of broadleaved species. The role of past land uses (e.g., harvesting for firewood, extensive livestock) (Valbuena-Carabaña et al, 2010;Elena-Rosselló et al, 2013;Iriarte-Goñi, 2013;López-Leiva et al, 2020;Vadell et al, 2022) and wildfires (Ortega et al, 2012;Martín-Martín et al, 2013), which are intrinsically associated with the Mediterranean environment (Pausas and Vallejo, 1999;Verdú and Pausas, 2007), and the influence of land ownership Mölder et al, 2021), should be considered in future works aiming to explain these findings.…”