The Impact of Climatic Change and Land Use on the Hydrological Response of Mediterranean Soils; a Study along a Climatological Gradient in Crete (Greece)

Boix‐Fayos, Carolina; Soto, C. Soriano; Tiemessen, I.; Calvo, Andrea Luquin; Imeson, A.C.

doi:10.1016/s0166-1116(06)80106-8

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“…Crete, like other Mediterranean islands, is highly dependent on groundwater resources, a problem that is already exacerbated by rising temperatures due to climate change [41]. The soils of Crete are mainly of limestone origin, deep, moderate, shallow, rocky, and well drained [42,43]. The main sources of soil salinity in Crete include coastal alluvium soils and proximity to the sea.…”

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Drought- and Salt-Tolerant Plants of the Mediterranean and Their Diverse Applications: The Case of Crete

Christoforidi

Kollaros

Manios

et al. 2022

Land

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Drought and salinity are two of the most urgent challenges faced in Mediterranean ecosystems, equally impacting natural systems, agricultural crops, and urban green. While many technical and soft approaches have been proposed to anticipate, mitigate, and remediate these impacts, a class of solutions has possibly been in front of us all along. Native Mediterranean fauna is well adapted, and when properly established still has unexploited conservation, restoration, and production diversification potential. Here, we outline the results of a long-term experiment taking place on the island of Crete, Greece that started in 1996 and involves over 70 native Mediterranean plants planted and monitored in various green spaces (private, shared, public) and a university campus under a diversity of adverse topographies (e.g., coastal, steep slopes), soils (e.g., disturbed, nutrient-deficient), and microclimatic conditions, taking various plant formations and serving various functions. After plant establishment, drought and salinity resistance were evaluated by gradually exposing plants (n = 5249) to deficit irrigation and saline environmental conditions, and plants were followed up for at least 5 years to empirically assess their ability to cope with abiotic stress. From the Mediterranean plants that were planted and tested, 52 were singled out because of their resistance and additional favorable traits. Motivated by this long-term assessment, a systematic literature review was conducted using the protocol Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) to validate empirical results, determine which were still unexplored, and bring to light additional uses. Results showed that 41 of the plants included in this research have significant medicinal properties, 26 have nutritional uses, 17 industrial uses, and 18 have evidence of cosmetology uses. Additionally, the empirical assessment gave new evidence of at least 40 new species–trait combinations. By formally documenting the characteristics of these native Mediterranean plants, this work highlights their versatile traits, and the prospect of creating new uses and value chains enables, for the first time their inclusion in planting-decision support systems and aims to increase demand and facilitate the scaling up of native greening in the context of sustainable land and water management within and beyond the Mediterranean basin.

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Drought- and Salt-Tolerant Plants of the Mediterranean and Their Diverse Applications: The Case of Crete

Christoforidi

Kollaros

Manios

et al. 2022

Land

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Estimating the collapse of aggregated fine soil structure in a mountainous forested catchment

Mouri

Shinoda

Golosov

et al. 2014

Journal of Environmental Management

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This paper describes the relationship of forest soil dryness and antecedent rainfall with suspended sediment (SS) yield due to extreme rainfall events and how this relationship affects the survival of forest plants. Several phenomena contribute to this relationship: increasing evaporation (amount of water vapour discharged from soil) due to increasing air temperature, decreasing moisture content in the soil, the collapse of aggregates of fine soil particles, and the resulting effects on forest plants. To clarify the relationships among climate variation, the collapse of soil particle aggregates, and rainfall-runoff processes, a numerical model was developed to reproduce such aggregate collapse in detail. The validity of the numerical model was confirmed by its application to the granitic mountainous catchment of the Nagara River basin in Japan and by comparison with observational data. The simulation suggests that important problems, such as the collapse of forest plants in response to decreases in soil moisture content and antecedent rainfall, will arise if air temperature continues to increase.

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Soil erosion and climate change: the transect approach and the influence of scale

Imeson

Lavee

1998

Geomorphology

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The Impact of Climatic Change and Land Use on the Hydrological Response of Mediterranean Soils; a Study along a Climatological Gradient in Crete (Greece)

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Drought- and Salt-Tolerant Plants of the Mediterranean and Their Diverse Applications: The Case of Crete

Drought- and Salt-Tolerant Plants of the Mediterranean and Their Diverse Applications: The Case of Crete

Estimating the collapse of aggregated fine soil structure in a mountainous forested catchment

Soil erosion and climate change: the transect approach and the influence of scale

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