Impacts of global change on Mediterranean forests and their services

Forests

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  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 ^a,b,c   Bartrons, Mireia ^b,d   Rivas Ubach, Albert ^a,b   Grau, Oriol ^a,b   Peguero, Guille ^a,b   Margalef, Olga ^a,b   Pla Rabés, Sergi ^a,b   Stefanescu, Constantí ^a,b,e   Asensio, Dolores ^a,b   Preece, Catherine ^a,b   Liu, Lei ^a,b   Verger, Aleixandre ^a,b   Barbeta, Adrià ^a,b,f   Achotegui Castells, Ander ^a,b   Gargallo Garriga, Albert ^a,b   Sperlich, Dominik ^g   Farré Armengol, Gerard ^a,b   Fernández Martínez, Marcos ^a,b   Liu, Daijun ^a,b   Zhang, Chao ^a,b   Urbina, Ifigenia ^a,b   Camino Serrano, Marta ^b   Vives Ingla, Maria ^a,b   Stocker, Benjamin D ^a,b   Balzarolo, Manuela ^a,b   Guerrieri, Rossella ^a,b   Peaucelle, Marc ^a,b   Marañón Jiménez, Sara ^a,b   Bórnez Mejías, Kevin ^a,b   Mu, Zhaobin ^a,b   Descals, Adrià ^a,b   Castellanos, Alejandro ^b,h   Terradas, Jaume ^a,b   more..

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

^e Museu de Granollers Ciencies Naturals   (Spain)

^f BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Climate change; CO2; Communities; Diversity; Drought; Ecosystem services; Extinction; Global change; Management; Mediterranean forests; Migration; Plant invasion; Resilience

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MANAGEMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY);

DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GLOBAL CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; MIGRATION; PLANT INVASION; RESILIENCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVASIVENESS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 85035034530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f8120463     Document Type: Review

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