Resilience of Spanish forests to recent droughts and climate change

S Khoury, DA Coomes - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A widespread increase in forest cover is underway in northern Mediterranean forests
because of land abandonment and decreased wood demand, but the resilience of these …

Woody plant richness and NDVI response to drought events in Catalonian (northeastern Spain) forests

F Lloret, A Lobo, H Estevan, P Maisongrande… - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The role of species diversity on ecosystem resistance in the face of strong environmental
fluctuations has been addressed from both theoretical and experimental viewpoints to reveal …

Forest browning trends in response to drought in a highly threatened mediterranean landscape of South America

A Miranda, A Lara, A Altamirano, C Di Bella… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Deforestation is widely studied throughout the world. However, a less evident issue is the
effect of climate change and drought on remnants of native forests. The objective of this work …

Long‐term forest resilience to climate change indicated by mortality, regeneration, and growth in semiarid southern S iberia

C Xu, H Liu, OA Anenkhonov, AY Korolyuk… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have documented that regional climate warming and the resulting increase
in drought stress have triggered increased tree mortality in semiarid forests with unavoidable …

[HTML][HTML] Tree species are differently impacted by cumulative drought stress and present higher growth synchrony in dry places

A Gazol, JJ Camarero, G Sangüesa-Barreda… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The increase in frequency and intensity of droughts due to climate change might threaten
forests under stress levels causing dieback and mortality episodes. Thus, deciphering how …

The role of climatic anomalies and soil moisture in the decline of drought-prone forests

D Chaparro, J Vayreda, M Vall-Llossera… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increased intensity and duration of droughts and high-temperature events have been
associated with forest decline in many parts of the world, and these decline events are …

Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

A Gazol, JJ Camarero… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasted increase drought frequency and severity may drive worldwide declines in forest
productivity. Species‐level responses to a drier world are likely to be influenced by their …

Canopy recovery after drought dieback in holm‐oak Mediterranean forests of Catalonia (NE Spain)

F Lloret, D Siscart, C Dalmases - Global Change Biology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is likely to produce more frequent and longer droughts in the Mediterranean
region, like that of 1994, which produced important changes in the Quercus ilex forests, with …

Global change and Mediterranean forests: current impacts and potential responses

F Valladares, R Benavides, SG Rabasa… - Forests and global …, 2014 - books.google.com
3.1 Global change exacerbating Mediterranean stresses Mediterranean forests have always
had to cope with challenging environmental conditions that change across different temporal …

Eucalyptus forest shows low structural resistance and resilience to climate change‐type drought

G Matusick, KX Ruthrof, JB Fontaine… - Journal of Vegetation …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Climate change‐type drought (the combination of drought and heatwave) has
become a widely documented driver of forest dieback yet, to date, limited measurement of …