Likely effects of climate change on growth of Quercus ilex, Pinus halepensis, Pinus pinaster, Pinus sylvestris and Fagus sylvatica forests in the Mediterranean region

Sabaté, Santiago; Gracia, Carlos; Sánchez, Anabel

doi:10.1016/s0378-1127(02)00048-8

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“…Increases in the frequency of both droughts and floods, or alterations in interannual rainfall distribution could have specific impacts. Although several climate forecasts indicate a generally positive effect on future forest growth (Sabaté et al, 2002), local drought and changes in temporal and spatial rainfall distributions may make timber production and carbon storage difficult. Greater efficiency in use of resources has been reported in some studies, such as that of Bogino and Bravo (2014) for water in Mediterranean pines in Spain.…”

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Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

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Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

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Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

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Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

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“…Instead of determining climate response surfaces for specific species , biomes (IMAGE Team 2001), plant functional types (Sitch et al 2003) or forest growth (Sabaté et al 2002), we determined climate functions for the 84 strata of the Environmental Stratification of Europe (EnS) (Metzger et al 2005a). The EnS was constructed by statistical clustering of mainly climate environmental variables into relatively homogeneous regions (for example distinct regions such as the British uplands, the Hungarian plains, the Po valley and numerous mountain regions, as well as statistically defined classes in regions with gradual environmental gradients).…”

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Projected environmental shifts under climate change: European trends and regional impacts

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SUMMARYPotential impacts of climate change on ecosystems and the environment are generally assessed by summarizing climate change scenarios for broad regions (for example countries), or by specific modelling exercises. This paper presents an alternative approach for summarizing climate change impacts on the European environment, by linking climate change scenarios to recognized environmental divisions. Sixteen climate scenarios from four general circulation models were therefore linked to 84 statistically derived strata sharing common environmental features. In this way, the future distribution of the strata, as defined by their climate characteristics, were quantified and mapped. The results show that Europe is likely to experience major environmental shifts, with pronounced regional variations. As expected, environmental strata shift northwards. In particular the southern Mediterranean strata are projected to expand, whereas Atlantic environments remain much more stable. Alpine and Mediterranean mountain environments decline dramatically. However, the Scandinavian zones show no consistent pattern of change. More detailed analysis of four sample regions shows that the impacts of the projected shifts will largely depend on regional characteristics. Environmental conservation, regional assessments and scenario development could therefore be facilitated by combining relevant regional datasets (for example for vegetation, land cover and species distribution) with the shifting environmental strata.

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“…As far as the MOD15A2 product is concerned, the values of LAI provided, ranging between 0.2 and 0.8 (Figure 4), appear to be very low compared to values reported in literature (Sabaté et al, 2002;Sprintsin et al, 2007;VicenteSerrano et al, 2010;Molina and del Campo, 2012) …”

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Comparing two approaches for parsimonious vegetation modelling in semiarid regions using satellite data

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Large portions of Earth's terrestrial surface are arid or semiarid. As in these regions the hydrological cycle and the vegetation dynamics are tightly interconnected, a coupled modelling of these two systems is needed to fully reproduce the ecosystem behaviour and to predict possible responses to climate change. In this paper, the performance of two parsimonious dynamic EVI is reported in literature to be highly correlated with leaf area index so it is compared with modelled LAI mod (r WUE-model =0.45; r LUE-model =0.57). In contrast, NDVI appears highly linked to soil moisture, through the control exerted by this variable on chlorophyll production, and is therefore used to analyze LAI* mod , models' output corrected by plant water-stress (r WUE-model =0.62; r LUE-model =0.59).MODIS LAI and ET are found to be unrealistic in the studied area. The performance of both models in this semiarid region is found to be reasonable.However, the LUE-model presents the advantages of a better performance, the possibility to be used in a wider range of climates and to have been extensively tested in literature.

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Likely effects of climate change on growth of Quercus ilex, Pinus halepensis, Pinus pinaster, Pinus sylvestris and Fagus sylvatica forests in the Mediterranean region

Cited by 278 publications

References 43 publications

Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

Projected environmental shifts under climate change: European trends and regional impacts

Comparing two approaches for parsimonious vegetation modelling in semiarid regions using satellite data

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