Climatic events inducing die-off in Mediterranean shrublands: are species’ responses related to their functional traits?

Oecologia

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 961-973

  Lloret, Francisco ^a   de la Riva, Enrique G ^b   Pérez Ramos, Ignacio M ^c   Marañón, Teodoro ^c   Saura Mas, Sandra ^a   Díaz Delgado, Ricardo ^d   Villar, Rafael ^b  

^a CREAF   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Extreme climate episode; Recruitment; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISODIC EVENT; EXTREME EVENT; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; LEAF AREA; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING; SHRUBLAND; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

SPAIN;

CARBON;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLINGS; SEEDS; SPAIN;

EID: 84955266297     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3550-4     Document Type: Article

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