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Title:
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Climate change effects on mediterranean forests and preventive measures
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Author:
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Resco de Dios, Víctor; Fischer, Christine; Colinas, C. (Carlos)
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Notes:
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This paper synthesizes and reviews literature concerning climate change
effects on Mediterranean forest ecology and management as well as the restorative
techniques necessary to maintain forest health, forest yield and biodiversity. Climate
change compounded with trends of rural abandonment are likely to diminish forested
areas within the Mediterranean basin that will be replaced by fire prone shrub
communities. This could be favoured by outbreaks of pathogens, fire and other largescale
disturbances. Landscape fragmentation is expected to impede species migration.
Annual increments and subsequent income from forests are expected to decrease.
Reafforestations are necessary to ensure the presence of propagules of forest species
and their site-specific varieties best adapted to future climatic conditions even though
they may be different from the present forest-plant community. Current challenges in
biodiversity conservation can only be met by afforestations whose main objective is to
maintain ecosystem functioning. A new silviculture must emerge encompassing these
habitat displacement and economic concerns while maximizing carbon sequestration. |
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Subject(s):
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-Global warming
-Mitigation strategies
-Forest restoration
-Reforestations |
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Rights:
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(c) Springer Science Business Media B.V., 2007
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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Document type:
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article
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Published by:
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Springer Verlag
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