Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services

Forests

Mireia Bartrons¹  Alejandro Castellanos¹  Marta Camino-Serrano¹  Joan Llusiಠ Ifigenia Urbina²  Jaume Terradas²  Rossella Guerrieri²  Dolores Asensio²  Iolanda Filella²  Romà Ogaya²  Sara Marañón-Jiménez²  Marcos Fernández-Martínez²  Aleixandre Verger²  Kevin Bórnez-Mejías²  Benjamin D. Stocker²  Marc Estiarte²  Chao Zhang²  Adrià Descals²  Maria Vives-Ingla²  Manuela Balzarolo²  Albert Gargallo-Garriga²  Olga Margalef²  Guille Peguero²  Zhaobin Mu²  Jofre Carnicer²  Daijun Liu²  Marc Peaucelle²  Lei Liu²  Josep Peñuelas²  Ander Achotegui-Castells²  Albert Rivas-Ubach²  Constantí Stefanescu²  Jordi Sardans²  Catherine Preece²  Adrià Barbeta²  Gerard Farré-Armengol²  Oriol Grau²  Sergi Pla-Rabés²  Dominik Sperlich³ 

[1] CREAF, Center for Ecological and Forestry Applications, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain;CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unitat d’Ecologia Global CREAF-CSIC-UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain;Forestry Economics and Forest Planning, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany;

关键词: climate change;    drought;    global change;    mediterranean forests;    ecosystem services;    resilience;    management;    migration;    extinction;    diversity;    communities;    CO2;    plant invasion;   

DOI  :  10.3390/f8120463

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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