Climatic changes, including altered precipitation regimes, will affect key ecosystem
processes, such as plant productivity and biodiversity for many terrestrial ecosystems. Past …

Intensification of weather extremes is currently emerging as one of the most important facets
of climate change. Research on extreme events (“event‐focused” in contrast to “trend …

Soil organic carbon harbors three times as much carbon as Earth's atmosphere, and its
decomposition is a potentially large climate change feedback and major source of …

Amplification of the hydrological cycle as a consequence of global warming is forecast to
lead to more extreme intra-annual precipitation regimes characterized by larger rainfall …

In recent years, increased awareness of the potential interactions between rising
atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]) and temperature has illustrated the importance of …

Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically
applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have …

Abstract Background In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of
low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in …

Climate change will increase the recurrence of extreme weather events such as drought and
heavy rainfall. Evidence suggests that modifications in extreme weather events pose …

There is a growing realization among scientists and policy makers that an increased
understanding of today's environmental issues requires international collaboration and data …

Climatic warming produces significant gradual alterations in the timing of life‐cycle events,
and here we study the phenological effects of rainfall‐pattern changes.• We conducted …