Forests (Nov 2017)
Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services
- Josep Peñuelas,
- Jordi Sardans,
- Iolanda Filella,
- Marc Estiarte,
- Joan Llusià,
- Romà Ogaya,
- Jofre Carnicer,
- Mireia Bartrons,
- Albert Rivas-Ubach,
- Oriol Grau,
- Guille Peguero,
- Olga Margalef,
- Sergi Pla-Rabés,
- Constantí Stefanescu,
- Dolores Asensio,
- Catherine Preece,
- Lei Liu,
- Aleixandre Verger,
- Adrià Barbeta,
- Ander Achotegui-Castells,
- Albert Gargallo-Garriga,
- Dominik Sperlich,
- Gerard Farré-Armengol,
- Marcos Fernández-Martínez,
- Daijun Liu,
- Chao Zhang,
- Ifigenia Urbina,
- Marta Camino-Serrano,
- Maria Vives-Ingla,
- Benjamin D. Stocker,
- Manuela Balzarolo,
- Rossella Guerrieri,
- Marc Peaucelle,
- Sara Marañón-Jiménez,
- Kevin Bórnez-Mejías,
- Zhaobin Mu,
- Adrià Descals,
- Alejandro Castellanos,
- Jaume Terradas
Affiliations
- Josep Peñuelas
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Jordi Sardans
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Iolanda Filella
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Marc Estiarte
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Joan Llusià
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Romà Ogaya
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Jofre Carnicer
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Mireia Bartrons
- CREAF, Center for Ecological and Forestry Applications, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Albert Rivas-Ubach
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Oriol Grau
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Guille Peguero
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Olga Margalef
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Sergi Pla-Rabés
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Constantí Stefanescu
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Dolores Asensio
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Catherine Preece
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Lei Liu
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Aleixandre Verger
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Adrià Barbeta
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Ander Achotegui-Castells
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Albert Gargallo-Garriga
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Dominik Sperlich
- Forestry Economics and Forest Planning, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
- Gerard Farré-Armengol
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Marcos Fernández-Martínez
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Daijun Liu
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Chao Zhang
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Ifigenia Urbina
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Marta Camino-Serrano
- CREAF, Center for Ecological and Forestry Applications, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Maria Vives-Ingla
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Benjamin D. Stocker
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Manuela Balzarolo
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Rossella Guerrieri
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Marc Peaucelle
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Sara Marañón-Jiménez
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Kevin Bórnez-Mejías
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Zhaobin Mu
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Adrià Descals
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- Alejandro Castellanos
- CREAF, Center for Ecological and Forestry Applications, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Jaume Terradas
- CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/f8120463
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 12
p. 463
Abstract
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.
Keywords
- climate change
- drought
- global change
- mediterranean forests
- ecosystem services
- resilience
- management
- migration
- extinction
- diversity
- communities
- CO2
- plant invasion