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Med-CORDEX Initiative for Mediterranean Climate Studies

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2016
Abstract The Mediterranean is expected to be one of the most prominent and vulnerable climate change “hotspots” of the twenty-first century, and the physical mechanisms underlying this finding are still not clear. Furthermore, complex interactions and feedbacks involving ocean–atmosphere–land–biogeochemical processes play a prominent ...
Ruti, Paolo M., Somot, S, Giorgi, F., Dubois, Clotilde, Flaounas, Emmanouil, Obermann, A., Dell’aquila, A., Pisacane, G., Harzallah, A., Lombardi, E., Ahrens, B., Akhtar, N., Alias, A., Arsouze, Thomas, Aznar, R., Bastin, Sophie, Bartholy, J., Béranger, Karine, Beuvier, Jonathan, Bouffies-Cloché, Sophie, Brauch, J., Cabos, W., Calmanti, S., Calvet, Jean-Christophe, Carillo, A., Conte, D., Coppola, E., Djurdjevic, V., Drobinski, Philippe, Elizalde-Arellano, A., Gaertner, M., Galàn, P., Gallardo, C., Gualdi, S., Goncalves, M., Jorba, O., Jordà, G., L’heveder, Blandine, Lebeaupin-Brossier, Cindy, Li, Lu, Liguori, G., Lionello, P., Maciàs, Diego, Nabat, P., Onol, B., Raikovic, B., Ramage, Karim, Sevault, Florence, Sannino, G., Struglia, M. V., Sanna, A., Torma, C., Vervatis, V.   +52 more
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Modelling the recent historical impacts of atmospheric CO2 and climate change on Mediterranean vegetation [PDF]

, 2000
During the past century, annual mean temperature has increased by 0.75 degrees C and precipitation has shown marked variation throughout the Mediterranean basin.
Mitchell, P.L., Osborne, C.P., Sheehy, J.E., Woodward, F.I.   +3 more
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A review of potential physical impacts on harbours in the Mediterranean Sea under climate change [PDF]

, 2016
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-0972-9The potential impact of climate change on port operations and infrastructures has received much less attention than the corresponding impact for beach systems ...
Brown, Sally, Casas-Prat, Mercè, Conte, Dario, Lionello, Piero, Nicholls, Robert J., Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo, Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín   +6 more
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing estuary salinity prediction: A Machine Learning and Deep Learning based approach

Applied Computing and Geosciences
As critical transitional ecosystems, estuaries are facing the increasingly urgent threat of salt wedge intrusion, which impacts their ecological balance as well as human-dependent activities.
Leonardo Saccotelli, Giorgia Verri, Alessandro De Lorenzis, Carla Cherubini, Rocco Caccioppoli, Giovanni Coppini, Rosalia Maglietta   +6 more
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Assessment of possible impacts of climate change on the hydrological regimes of different regions in China

Advances in Climate Change Research, 2016
The aim of this work is to investigate the soil water budget across China by means of hydrological modeling under current and future climate conditions and to evaluate the sensitivity to soil parameters.
Alfredo Reder, Guido Rianna, Renata Vezzoli, Paola Mercogliano   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on the livestock sector from an economic and social perspective [PDF]

, 2015
Livestock production systems provide multiple services to population and within territories. Based on studies carried on in different countries in Mediterranean and tropical environments, we show that climate change and/or climate variability have clear ...
Ickowicz, Alexandre
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A roadmap to key traits of invasive Drosophilidae

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biological invasions have intensified in recent decades, mostly driven by international trade and travel, raising significant concerns, particularly regarding insect pests. Once non‐native species establish, they can disrupt natural ecosystem stability, undermine agroecosystem sustainability and cause substantial economic losses.
Gwenaëlle Deconninck, Bréa Raynaud‐Berton, Méghan Boulembert, Olivier Chabrerie, Aude Couty, Franck Dedeine, Patrice Eslin, Vincent Foray, Romain Georges, Patricia Gibert, Laurence Mouton, Sylvain Pincebourde, David Renault, Christelle Suppo, Hervé Colinet   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feature selection for data-driven seasonal forecasts of European heatwaves

Communications Earth & Environment
The 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, Jorge Pérez-Aracil, Antonello Squintu, César Peláez-Rodríguez, Felicitas Hansen, Verónica Torralba, Harilaos Loukos, Eduardo Zorita, Matteo Giuliani, Leone Cavicchia, Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Enrico Scoccimarro   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hot spot maps of forest presence in the Mediterranean basin

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2016
The Mediterranean basin is one of the most varied areas worldwide in terms of biodiversity and species richness due to its climatic and geomorphological features, and it is characterized by multi-faceted habitats where forests play a crucial role ...
Noce S, Collalti A, Valentini R, Santini M   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source