Fig. 1

Location of the two study areas affected by the 2012 megafires in Andilla and Cortes (Valencia, Spain, eastern Iberian Peninsula). (A) Burned area (in orange) in Andilla (north) and Cortes (south). (B) Andilla burned area (~21,000 ha). (C) Cortes burned area (~30,000 ha; Table 1). In B and C, symbols represent sampling plots (circles = unburned; triangles = burned edge; red squares = burned middle and center), and unburned patches in white are villages and agricultural fields without natural vegetation. Modified from Pausas et al.16.