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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…...
Linares, C., Díaz, J., Negev, M., Martínez, G. S., Debono, R., & Paz, S. (2020). Impacts of climate change on the public health of the Mediterranean Basin population-Current situation, projections, preparedness and adaptation. Environmental Research, 182, 109107. Highlights Climate change impacts…...
Abstract: Climate change, and specifically global temperature increase, is expected to alter plant phenology. Temperate deciduous fruit trees have cultivar-specific chill and heat requirements to break dormancy and bloom. In this study, we aimed to estimate chill and heat requirements (in…...
New study on AbstractVertical migration to reach cooler waters is a suitable strategy for some marine organisms to adapt to ocean warming. Here, we calculate that realized vertical isotherm migration rates averaged −6.6 + 18.8 m dec−1 across the global ocean between 1980 and…...