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Title: | Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services |
Author: | Peñuelas, Josep Sardans, Jordi Filella, Iolanda Estiarte, Marc Llusià, Joan Ogaya, Romà Carnicer Cols, Jofre Bartrons, Mireia Rivas-Ubach, Albert Grau, Oriol Peguero, Guille Margalef Marrasé, Olga Pla Rabés, Sergi Stefanescu, Constantí Asensio, Dolores Preece, Catherine Liu, Lei Verger, Aleixandre Barbeta, Adrià Achotegui-Castells, Ander Gargallo-Garriga, Albert Sperlich, Dominik Farré-Armengol, Gerard Fernández-Martínez, Marcos Liu, Daijun Zhang, Chao Urbina, Ifigenia Camino-Serrano, Marta Vives-Ingla, Maria Stocker, Benjamin D. Balzarolo, Manuela Guerrieri, Rossella Peaucelle, Marc Marañón-Jiménez, Sara Bórnez-Mejías, Kevin Mu, Zhaobin Descals, Adrià Castellanos, Alejandro Terradas, Jaume |
Keywords: | Canvi climàtic Boscos Mediterrània (Regió) Climatic change Forests Mediterranean Region |
Issue Date: | 24-Nov-2017 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | The increase in aridity, mainly by decreases in precipitation but also by higher temperatures, is likely the main threat to the diversity and survival of Mediterranean forests. Changes in land use, including the abandonment of extensive crop activities, mainly in mountains and remote areas, and the increases in human settlements and demand for more resources with the resulting fragmentation of the landscape, hinder the establishment of appropriate management tools to protect Mediterranean forests and their provision of services and biodiversity. Experiments and observations indicate that if changes in climate, land use and other components of global change, such as pollution and overexploitation of resources, continue, the resilience of many forests will likely be exceeded, altering their structure and function and changing, mostly decreasing, their capacity to continue to provide their current services. A consistent assessment of the impacts of the changes, however, remains elusive due to the difficulty of obtaining simultaneous and complete data for all scales of the impacts in the same forests, areas and regions. We review the impacts of climate change and other components of global change and their interactions on the terrestrial forests of Mediterranean regions, with special attention to their impacts on ecosystem services. Management tools for counteracting the negative effects of global change on Mediterranean ecosystem- services are finally discussed. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/f8120463 |
It is part of: | Forests, 2017, vol. 8(12), num. 463 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/162062 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/f8120463 |
ISSN: | 1999-4907 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals) |
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