Impacts of global change on Mediterranean forests and their services

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...

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Autores: Peñuelas, Josep|||0000-0002-7215-0150, Sardans i Galobart, Jordi|||0000-0003-2478-0219, Filella, Iolanda|||0000-0001-6262-5733, Estiarte, Marc|||0000-0003-1176-8480, Llusia, Joan|||0000-0003-0164-2737, Ogaya Inurrigarro, Romà|||0000-0003-4927-8479, Carnicer Cols, Jofre|||0000-0001-7454-8296, Bartrons Vilamala, Mireia|||0000-0003-0617-9577, Rivas-Ubach, Albert|||0000-0003-1293-7127, Grau Fernández, Oriol|||0000-0002-3816-9499, Peguero, Guille|||0000-0002-6464-1486, Margalef, Olga|||0000-0002-3036-3182, Pla-Rabes, Sergi|||0000-0003-3532-9466, Stefanescu, Constantí|||0000-0001-8952-7869, Asensio, Dolores|||0000-0002-7622-1200, Preece, Catherine|||0000-0001-6584-3541, Liu, Lei, Verger, Aleixandre|||0000-0001-9374-1745, Barbeta i Margarit, Adrià|||0000-0002-8357-1719, Achotegui Castells, Ander, Gargallo-Garriga, Albert|||0000-0002-7536-2888, Sperlich, Dominik, Farré Armengol, Gerard, Fernández-Martínez, Marcos|||0000-0002-5661-3610, Liu, Daijun|||0000-0002-0993-0832, Zhang, Chao|||0000-0001-6009-9450, Urbina Barreto, Ifigenia|||0000-0002-8541-950X, Camino Serrano, Marta|||0000-0002-0240-9315, Vives Ingla, Maria|||0000-0003-4887-8392, Stocker, Benjamin|||0000-0003-2697-9096, Balzarolo, Manuela|||0000-0002-7888-1501, Guerrieri, Rossella|||0000-0001-5247-0432, Peaucelle, Marc|||0000-0003-0324-4628, Marañón Jiménez, Sara|||0000-0001-9786-3977, Bórnez Mejías, Kevin|||0000-0002-4054-3304, Mu, Zhaobin|||0000-0002-7902-3760, Descals, Adrià|||0000-0003-1644-3036, Castellanos, Alejandro|||0000-0003-4804-0119, Terradas, Jaume|||0000-0003-0752-1821
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:185591
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/185591
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/f8120463
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Climate change
Drought
Global change
Mediterranean forests
Ecosystem services
Resilience
Management
Migration
Extinction
Diversity
Communities
CO2
Plant invasion
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Sumario: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.

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