Climatic niche position determines post-fire resilience in Mediterranean forests

Fires are a common and significant disturbance in Mediterranean forest ecosystems, with a prominent role in their dynamics. The increased frequency, intensity, and extent of fires due to climate change are, however, expected to exceed forests resilience capacity. It is still unknown how resilience capacity changes across species’ biogeographical ranges in relation to pre- and post-fire environmental variability. We analyzed the resilience of Mediterranean pinewoods (Pinus halepensis and P. nigra) to fire in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula and considered the influence of pre- and post-fire climate conditions typified through the species’ climate niche. To assess forest resilience, we applied the Ecological Dynamic Regime (EDR) framework, a methodological approach to quantify the deviation of disturbed trajectories from their dynamic regimes using three indices: amplitude, recovery, and net change. Then, we evaluated how fire characteristics (severity), site attributes (exposure, rockiness)..., , # Climatic niche position determines post-fire resilience in Mediterranean forests Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.np5hqc085](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.np5hqc085) ## Description of the data and file structure This dataset contains the data and code required to replicate analyses in *Climatic niche position determines post-fire resilience in Mediterranean forests* (Codina et al. 2026). We analyzed the resilience of Mediterranean pinewoods (*Pinus halepensis* and *P. nigra*) to fire in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula and considered the influence of pre- and post-fire climate conditions typified through the species’ climate niche. To assess forest resilience, we applied the Ecological Dynamic Regime (EDR) framework, a methodological approach to quantify the deviation of disturbed trajectories from their dynamic regimes using three indices: amplitude, recovery, and net change. Then, we evaluated how fire characteristics (severity), site attributes (exposure, rockiness), and deviations in t...,