TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of global change on Mediterranean forests and their services
AU - Peñuelas, Josep
AU - Sardans, Jordi
AU - Filella, Iolanda
AU - Estiarte, Marc
AU - Llusià, Joan
AU - Ogaya, Romà
AU - Carnicer, Jofre
AU - Bartrons, Mireia
AU - Rivas-Ubach, Albert
AU - Grau, Oriol
AU - Peguero, Guille
AU - Margalef, Olga
AU - Pla-Rabés, Sergi
AU - Stefanescu, Constantí
AU - Asensio, Dolores
AU - Preece, Catherine
AU - Liu, Lei
AU - Verger, Aleixandre
AU - Barbeta, Adrià
AU - Achotegui-Castells, Ander
AU - Gargallo-Garriga, Albert
AU - Sperlich, Dominik
AU - Farré-Armengol, Gerard
AU - Fernández-Martínez, Marcos
AU - Liu, Daijun
AU - Zhang, Chao
AU - Urbina, Ifigenia
AU - Camino-Serrano, Marta
AU - Vives-Ingla, Maria
AU - Stocker, Benjamin D.
AU - Balzarolo, Manuela
AU - Guerrieri, Rossella
AU - Peaucelle, Marc
AU - Marañón-Jiménez, Sara
AU - Bórnez-Mejías, Kevin
AU - Mu, Zhaobin
AU - Descals, Adrià
AU - Castellanos, Alejandro
AU - Terradas, Jaume
PY - 2017/11/24
Y1 - 2017/11/24
N2 - © 2017 by the authors. The increase in aridity, mainly by decreases in precipitation but also by higher temperatures, is likely the main threat to the diversity and survival of Mediterranean forests. Changes in land use, including the abandonment of extensive crop activities, mainly in mountains and remote areas, and the increases in human settlements and demand for more resources with the resulting fragmentation of the landscape, hinder the establishment of appropriate management tools to protect Mediterranean forests and their provision of services and biodiversity. Experiments and observations indicate that if changes in climate, land use and other components of global change, such as pollution and overexploitation of resources, continue, the resilience of many forests will likely be exceeded, altering their structure and function and changing, mostly decreasing, their capacity to continue to provide their current services. A consistent assessment of the impacts of the changes, however, remains elusive due to the difficulty of obtaining simultaneous and complete data for all scales of the impacts in the same forests, areas and regions. We review the impacts of climate change and other components of global change and their interactions on the terrestrial forests of Mediterranean regions, with special attention to their impacts on ecosystem services. Management tools for counteracting the negative effects of global change on Mediterranean ecosystem- services are finally discussed.
AB - © 2017 by the authors. The increase in aridity, mainly by decreases in precipitation but also by higher temperatures, is likely the main threat to the diversity and survival of Mediterranean forests. Changes in land use, including the abandonment of extensive crop activities, mainly in mountains and remote areas, and the increases in human settlements and demand for more resources with the resulting fragmentation of the landscape, hinder the establishment of appropriate management tools to protect Mediterranean forests and their provision of services and biodiversity. Experiments and observations indicate that if changes in climate, land use and other components of global change, such as pollution and overexploitation of resources, continue, the resilience of many forests will likely be exceeded, altering their structure and function and changing, mostly decreasing, their capacity to continue to provide their current services. A consistent assessment of the impacts of the changes, however, remains elusive due to the difficulty of obtaining simultaneous and complete data for all scales of the impacts in the same forests, areas and regions. We review the impacts of climate change and other components of global change and their interactions on the terrestrial forests of Mediterranean regions, with special attention to their impacts on ecosystem services. Management tools for counteracting the negative effects of global change on Mediterranean ecosystem- services are finally discussed.
U2 - 10.3390/f8120463
DO - 10.3390/f8120463
M3 - Scientific review
JO - Forests
JF - Forests
SN - 1999-4907
ER -