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Peleg, O., Guy‐Haim, T., Yeruham, E., Silverman, J., & Rilov, G. (2020) Tropicalisation may invert trophic state and carbon budget of shallow temperate rocky reefs. Journal of Ecology, 108(3), 844-854; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13329 Abstract Global warming mediates and maintains the tropicalization of temperate…...
Yeruham, E., Shpigel, M., Abelson, A., & Rilov, G. (2020). Ocean warming and tropical invaders erode the performance of a key herbivore. Ecology, 101(2), e02925 Abstract Climate change and bioinvasions are two facets of global change that can act in tandem…...
Significance One of the most impactful aspects of climate change is the potential change in water availability. Large populations live in Mediterranean-like regions—so-called because they receive most of their precipitation in winter and experience dry, hot summers—which are highly vulnerable…...
The proceedings of the Sixth Mediterranean Forest Week (MFW) which has held from 1 to 5 April 2019in Brummana (Lebanon) have been published as a special issue (volume 40, issue 3, September 2019) of the journal Forêt Méditerranéenne. The whole issue…...
AbstractNorth Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones. The present article aims to address this divide by assessing and comparing the climate change…...
Mallo, M., Ziveri, P., Reyes-García, V., & Rossi, S. (2019). Historical record of Corallium rubrum and its changing carbon sequestration capacity: A meta-analysis from the North Western Mediterranean. PloS one, 14(12). Abstract Background There is a scarcity of long time-span and geographically…...