Climate change impacts on winter chill in Mediterranean temperate fruit orchards

Climate Change Affects Winter Chill for Temperate Fruit and Nut Trees

BACKGROUND Temperate fruit and nut trees require adequate winter chill to produce economically viable yields. Global warming has the potential to reduce available winter chill and greatly impact crop yields. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We estimated winter chill for two past (1975 and 2000) and 18 future scenarios (mid and end 21st century; 3 Global Climate Models [GCMs]; 3 greenhouse gas e...

Irrigation in Mediterranean Fruit Tree Orchards

Potential climate change impacts on temperate forest ecosystem processes

Large changes in atmospheric CO2, temperature, and precipitation are predicted by 2100, yet the long-term consequences for carbon (C), water, and nitrogen (N) cycling in forests are poorly understood. We applied the PnET-CN ecosystem model to compare the long-term effects of changing climate and atmospheric CO2 on productivity, evapotranspiration, runoff, and net nitrogen mineralization in curr...

Evidences of Impacts of Climate Change on Mediterranean Biota

We report here the data set entitled " Impacts of climate change on organisms in the Mediterranean Sea, " which is the basis for the analysis of impacts of climate change on marine organisms presented by Marbà et al. (2015a). (Marbà et al., 2015b). In this data set we compiled evidence of warming on Mediterranean Sea biota derived from published reports. These were derived from a broad literatu...

Hydrologic impacts of climate change in a Mediterranean basin

Quantification of hydrologic impacts of climate change in a Mediterranean basin in Sardinia, Italy, through high-resolution simulations M. Piras, G. Mascaro, R. Deidda, and E. R. Vivoni School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale ed Architettura, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, ...