European extreme events climate index (E3CI): a climate service for weather induced hazard
Frontiers in ClimateIn recent years, Europe has experienced a notable increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires.
Giuseppe Giugliano +12 more
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Subproject 2: Sheep: Ethical Problems and Breeding Goals [PDF]
, 2011 - Lately production of various sheep and goat products has been raised especially in Mediterranean countries which have a long tradition in breeding such animals - Sheep and goat breeding in those countries in fact in the best choice in order to ...
Sotiraki, Smaros, Stefanakis, Alexandros
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Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback. [PDF]
, 2018 Feedbacks between the global dust cycle and the climate system might have amplified past climate changes. Yet, it remains unclear what role the dust-climate feedback will play in future anthropogenic climate change.
Evan, Amato T +3 more
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Linkages between climate, seasonal wood formation and mycorrhizal mushroom yields [PDF]
, 2016 Fungi provide important forest ecosystem services worldwide. In Mediterranean pine forests, predicted warmer and drier conditions could lead to a decline in mushroom yields.
Bonet Lledos, José Antonio +4 more
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What is a tree in the mediterranean basin hotspot? A critical analysis [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Tree species represent 20% of the vascular plant species worldwide and they play a crucial role in the global functioning of the biosphere. The Mediterranean Basin is one of the 36 world biodiversity hotspots, and it is estimated that forests
Arroyo Marín, Juan +7 more
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Statistical downscaling of seasonal spring-frost predictions
Weather and Climate ExtremesSpring frost occurring after bud break of grapevines can hinder the plants’ growth, and cause large economic losses to the winemaking sector. On-field protection strategies exist at the seasonal horizon, but their cost-effectiveness depends on the ...
Sebastiano Roncoroni +1 more
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Feature selection for data-driven seasonal forecasts of European heatwaves
Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe early warning of heatwaves using seasonal forecasting systems has the potential to mitigate economic losses and risk to life. Because of the limited reliability and computational expense of dynamical forecasting systems, efforts in recent years have ...
Ronan McAdam +11 more
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Adapting to climate change from a regional perspective: in search of a requisite policy and legal framework. Jean Monnet Occasional Paper No. 8/2014 [PDF]
, 2014 This paper aims to identify the Mediterranean States’ potential in adopting a regional strategy on climate change adaptation. The author proposes a Mediterranean Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change as the first step to a political/legal regional ...
Borg, Simone
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Assessing the impacts of nonindigenous marine macroalgae: an update of current knowledge [PDF]
, 2015 Nonindigenous marine species continue to be one of the foremost threats to marine biodiversity. As an update to a 2007 review of the impacts of introduced macroalgae, we assessed 142 additional publications to describe species’ impacts as well as to ...
Campbell, Marnie L. +3 more
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Combining USV ROV and multimetric indices to assess benthic habitat quality in coastal areas
Scientific ReportsCoastal marine ecosystems are subject to interference from all human activities that develop on the coast and on the continental shelf. New monitoring methodologies involving innovative autonomous platforms and synthetic multimetric habitat quality ...
Daniele Piazzolla +10 more
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