Modifying rainfall patterns in a Mediterranean shrubland: system design, plant responses, and experimental burning.

Recruitment limitation of forest communities in a degraded Mediterranean landscape

Question: How does habitat degradation affect recruitment limitation and its components (seed limitation versus establishment limitation) of woody plant communities in a Mediterranean landscape? Location: 1600-1900m a.s.l. in the Sierra Nevada National Park, southern Spain. The landscape is a mosaic composed of native forest and two degraded landscape units: reforestation stands and shrubland. ...

اثر گرمایش جهانی بر مرکز چرخندزایی شرق مدیترانه و ارتباط آن با ناهنجاری بارش نیمه‌ی غربی ایران

Introduction   Variability is one of inherent properties of the climate system. In addition to the dynamic nature, the climate system is extremely intertwined nature also, so that its components interact with each other and eventually they are changing each other. In general, the climate of a geographic location is controlled by various factors, including Atmospheric Action Centers (AAC...

Assessing vegetation structure and ANPP dynamics in a grassland–shrubland Chihuahuan ecotone using NDVI–rainfall relationships

Climate change and the widespread alteration of natural habitats are major drivers of vegetation change in drylands. In the Chihuahuan Desert, large areas of grasslands dominated by perennial grass species have transitioned over the last 150 years to shrublands dominated by woody species, accompanied by accelerated water and wind erosion. Multiple mechanisms drive the shrub-encroachment process...

Contrasting Species‐Specific, Compound‐Specific, Seasonal, and Interannual Responses of Foliar Isoprenoid Emissions to Experimental Drought in a Mediterranean Shrubland

Evidence for the spatial segregation hypothesis: a test with nine-year survivorship data in a Mediterranean shrubland.

A current focus of ecology is the investigation of spatial effects on population and community dynamics; however, spatiotemporal theory remains largely untested by empirical observations or experimental studies. For example, the segregation hypothesis predicts that intraspecific aggregation should increase the importance of intraspecific competition relative to interspecific competition, thereb...