Almost 20 years after the first MEDPINE book "Ecology, biogeography and management of Pinus halepensis and P. brutia forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean basin "(Ne'eman and Trabaud, 2000) was published, this new book presents up-to-date and state of the art information, covering a wide range of topics concerning Mediterranean pine trees growing in native and planted forests, their ecosystems and management. 

This will be an essential source of scientific information for learning, exploring planning and managing mediterranean pine and mixed forests. We focus on: genetics, adaptation, distribution and evolution; ecophysiology and drought resistance; pine and mixed forest ecosystems; forest dynamics biodiversity and biotic interactions; fire ecology; ecosystem services and policy; afforestation and management; all under the effect of global climate change. While forests are studied mainly in temperate and tropical zones, in the light of current climate change, focusing on Mediterranean forests growing in semi-humid to semi-arid zones is more important than ever. 

This book will include mostly review chapters (and two outstanding case studies) contributed by leading scientists, foresters and managers, and will serve as a scientific textbook for students of biology, agriculture and forestry, researchers of ecology forestry and related fields, forest managers, policy and decision makers.

<p>Foreword

Preface
PART I: Evolution, genetics and distribution
1. Phylogenesis and evolution
2. Population genetics and genomics
3. Conservation and breeding
4 Biogeography and local adaptations
5. Mediterranean pines as invasive species
PART II: Ecophysiology of Mediterranean pines: resistance to stress and perturbation
6. Physiological trade-offs under stress and perturbation
7. Carbon allocation dynamics under stress
8
Root systems under drought
9. Stress and tree mortality
10. Forest diseases affecting pines
11. Resistance to herbivorous insects
PART III: Pine and mixed forest ecosystems under global climate change
12. Growth and vigor
13. Forest distribution resilience under climate change
14. Carbon and energy balance
15. Soil properties and biogeochemical functioning
16. Decomposition
PART IV: Forest dynamics, biodiversity and biotic interactions
17. Dynamics of mixed pine-oak forests
18. Bird diversity
19 Soil micro- and macrofauna
20. Mycorhizae
PART V: Forest fire ecology and management
21. Fire past present and future
22. Adaptations to fire
23. Post-fire soil erosion
24. The impact of grazing on understory fuel load
25. Post fire restoration
26. Predicting post-fire conifer regeneration in California
27. Remote sensing  fire damage
PART VI: Policy and Ecosystem services of Mediterranean pine and mixed forest ecosystems
28. Mediterranean forests and the United Nations sustainable development goals
29. Ecosystem services
30.Multi-disciplinary assessment of cultural ecosystem services supplied by Mediterranean pine and mixed forests
PART VII: Afforestation and forest management policy
31. Dynamics and management of western Mediterranean pinewoods
32. From pine monoculture forests into sustainable mixed forest ecosystems
33. Forest policy in Israel
34. Water based forest management.</p>