Mitigating Climate Change Through Bioclimatic Applications and Cultivation Techniques in Agriculture (Andalusia, Spain)

Cano, Eusébio; Cano-Ortíz, Ana; Musarella, Carmelo Maria; Fuentes, José Carlos Piñar; Ighbareyeh, Jehad M. H.; Gea, F. Leyva; Río, Sara del

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6830-1_2

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“…These species are typical of the temperate macrobioclimate and Eurosiberian biogeography [31,85] and are currently found in more humid areas beside streams, in enclosed valleys, or on shady slopes in mountain formations with a higher rainfall regime [21,28,30]. These formations are therefore surrounded and are quickly replaced by other sclerophyllous formations when the particular microclimatic, topographic and soil conditions disappear [1,4,20,76].…”

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“…Several researchers [4,[92][93][94] have warned of future changes in climate and thus bioclimatology, with a generalised increase in temperature and particularly the polarisation of the rainy season to a single season or to a shorter period of the year. Although it is true that a certain increase in rainfall can be expected in summer periods in the southern Iberian Peninsula, this type of rainfall is convective and associated to torrential rains with heavy rainfall in a very short time [95], so it cannot be used as efficiently by the vegetation due to the decoupling of the cycles of growth and water availability in the Mediterranean climate [96,97].…”

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“…Ombrothermic index of the warmest month of the summer quarter (Ios 1 ): ombrothermic index of the warmest two months of the summer quarter (Ios 2 ), ombrothermic index of the summer quarter (Ios3), and ombrothermic index of the summer quarter and the previous month (Ios 4 (11) Monthly ombrothermic indices (Iom 1-12 ), with i = 1 = January 2 = February, . .…”

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“…phoenicea, which have a preference for warm bioclimates. These taxa do not grow in humid biotopes or with high values of Io or Ioe, except on sites with a steeply sloping topography or soil conditions that do not allow the use of rainwater (edaphoxerophilous) [1,4,20,76]. Tamus communis, Arbutus unedo, Daphne gnidium, Paeonia broteri, and Erica arborea are correlated to a lesser extent with these variables and show no correlations with Itc, Tmax, or Tmin gradients.…”

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“…This discipline, also known as phytoclimatology, emerged as a result of the connection between numerical climate values (temperature and precipitation) and the distribution areas of vegetation species, plant communities, ecosystems, and biomes [2]. The indices of Rivas Martínez [3] have established a close correlation between bioclimatic data and plant communities, enabling each territory to be characterised in these terms [4].…”

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Bioclimatology, Structure, and Conservation Perspectives of Quercus pyrenaica, Acer opalus subsp. Granatensis, and Corylus avellana Deciduous Forests on Mediterranean Bioclimate in the South-Central Part of the Iberian Peninsula

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The plant variability in the southern Iberian Peninsula consists of around 3500 different taxa due to its high bioclimatic, geographic, and geological diversity. The deciduous forests in the southern Iberian Peninsula are located in regions with topographies and specific bioclimatic conditions that allow for the survival of taxa that are typical of cooler and wetter bioclimatic regions and therefore represent the relict evidence of colder and more humid paleoclimatic conditions. The floristic composition of 421 samples of deciduous forests in the south-central part of the Iberian Peninsula were analyzed. The ecological importance index (IVI) was calculated, where the most important tree species were Quercus pyrenaica, Acer opalus subsp. Granatensis, and Corylus avellana. These species are uncommon in the south-central part of the Iberian Peninsula, forming forests of little extension. An analysis of the vertical distribution of the species (stratum) shows that the majority of the species of stratum 3 (hemicriptophics, camephytes, geophites, and nanophanerophytes) are characteristic of deciduous forests, and their presence is positively correlated with high values of bioclimatic variables related to humidity and presence of water in the soil (nemoral environments), while they are negatively correlated with high values of bioclimatic variables related to high temperatures, evapotranspiration, and aridity. This work demonstrates that several characteristic deciduous forest taxa are more vulnerable to disappearance due to the loss of their nemoral conditions caused by gaps in the tree or shrub canopy. These gaps lead to an increase in evapotranspiration, excess insolation, and a consequent loss of water and humidity in the microclimatic conditions.

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confidence: 99%