Assessment of the impacts of climate change on Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems based on data from field experiments and long-term monitored field gradients in Catalonia

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 152, Issue , 2018, Pages 49-59

  Peñuelas, Josep ^a,b   Sardans, Jordi ^a,b   Filella, Iolanda ^a,b   Estiarte, Marc ^a,b   Llusià, Joan ^a,b   Ogaya, Romà ^a,b   Carnicer, Jofre ^b,c   Bartrons, Mireia ^a,d   Rivas Ubach, Albert ^a,b   Grau, Oriol ^a,b   Peguero, Guille ^a,b   Margalef, Olga ^a,b   Pla Rabés, Sergi ^b   Stefanescu, Constantí ^a,b   Asensio, Dolores ^a,b   Preece, Catherine ^a,b   Liu, Lei ^a,b   Verger, Aleixandre ^a,b   Rico, Laura ^a,b   Barbeta, Adrià ^a,b   Achotegui Castells, Ander ^a,b   Gargallo Garriga, Albert ^a,b   Sperlich, Dominik ^e   Farré Armengol, Gerard ^a,b   Fernández Martínez, Marcos ^a,b   Liu, Daijun ^a,b   Zhang, Chao ^a,b   Urbina, Ifigenia ^a,b   Camino, Marta ^a,b   Vives, Maria ^a,b   Nadal Sala, Daniel ^c   Sabaté, Santi ^b,c   Gracia, Carles ^b,c   Terradas, Jaume ^b   more..

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community and ecosystem changes; Drought; Experiments; Long term; Management; Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems; Molecular; Morphological and physiological changes; Nutrients; Observations; Resilience

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPERIMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MONITORING; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL NUTRIENT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85020062958     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.05.012     Document Type: Review

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