Shift in community structure in an early-successional Mediterranean shrubland driven by long-term experimental warming and drought and natural extreme droughts

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 4267-4279

  Liu, Daijun ^a,b   Estiarte, Marc ^a,b   Ogaya, Romà ^a,b   Yang, Xiaohong ^c   Peñuelas, Josep ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

community diversity; composition shifts; frequent droughts; functional groups; global warming; long term climatic experiments; mediterranean ecosystems; species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ERICA MULTIFLORA; GLOBULARIA ALYPUM; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ERICACEAE; SEASON;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; ERICACEAE; SEASONS;

EID: 85020436492     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13763     Document Type: Article

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