Ecological impacts of atmospheric pollution and interactions with climate change in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mediterranean Basin: Current research and future directions

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 227, Issue , 2017, Pages 194-206

  Ochoa Hueso, Raúl ^a   Munzi, Silvana ^b   Alonso, Rocío ^c   Arróniz Crespo, María ^d   Avila, Anna ^e   Bermejo, Victoria ^c   Bobbink, Roland ^f   Branquinho, Cristina ^b   Concostrina Zubiri, Laura ^b   Cruz, Cristina ^b   Cruz de Carvalho, Ricardo ^b   De Marco, Alessandra ^g   Dias, Teresa ^b   Elustondo, David ^h   Elvira, Susana ^c   Estébanez, Belén ^a   Fusaro, Lina ⁱ   Gerosa, Giacomo ^j   Izquieta Rojano, Sheila ^h   Lo Cascio, Mauro ^k   Marzuoli, Riccardo ^j   Matos, Paula ^b   Mereu, Simone ^k   Merino, José ^l   Morillas, Lourdes ^k   Nunes, Alice ^b   Paoletti, Elena ^m   Paoli, Luca ⁿ   Pinho, Pedro ^b,o   Rogers, Isabel B ^p   Santos, Arthur ^b   Sicard, Pierre ^q   Stevens, Carly J ^p   Theobald, Mark R ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^g ENEA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

ⁱ SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^m CNR   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^o INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^p LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^q ACRI ST   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Air pollution; Climate change; Coordinated research networks; Environmental monitoring; Functional diversity; Mediterranean ecosystems

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION DETECTION; VEGETATION;

DEPOSITION MONITORING NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; RESEARCH NETWORKS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATTENTION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; MODEL; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; POLLUTANT; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

AIR POLLUTANT; NITROGEN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; NITROGEN; RESEARCH;

EID: 85018269817     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.04.062     Document Type: Review

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