scholarly journals Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains: a new synthesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 433 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Hughes ◽  
J. C. Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Quaternary Glaciation ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of a Quercus pyrenaica Willd. Rhizospheric Microbiome in the Mediterranean Mountains

Forests ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 390 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Cobo-Díaz ◽  
Antonio Fernández-González ◽  
Pablo Villadas ◽  
Nicolás Toro ◽  
Susannah Tringe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Quercus Pyrenaica ◽  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Mediterranean

Clearing shrubland and extensive livestock farming: Active prevention to control wildfires in the Mediterranean mountains

2018 ◽  
Vol 227 ◽  
pp. 256-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Lasanta ◽  
M. Khorchani ◽  
F. Pérez-Cabello ◽  
P. Errea ◽  
R. Sáenz-Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Marginal Lands and Erosion in Terraced Fields in the Mediterranean Mountains

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodoro Lasanta ◽  
José Arnáez ◽  
Marco Oserín ◽  
Luis M. Ortigosa
Keyword(s):  
Marginal Lands ◽  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Terraced Fields

scholarly journals After fire regeneration in a Mediterranean serpentine mountain

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelia Hidalgo Triana
Keyword(s):  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Face ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Serpentine Ecosystem ◽  
Field Works ◽  
High Degree

 Abstract: The management of Mediterranean mountains need to know whether or not the flora is adapted to respond to fire and, if so, through what mechanisms. Serpentine outcrops constitute particular ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin, and plants need to make an additional adaptive effort. The objective of this study is to know the response to fire of the main members of the group of serpentine plants, which habit the Spanish Mediterranean ultramafic mountain, to help in their management. For this purpose, monitoring plots were established on a burned ultramafic outcrop, which was affected by fire in August 2012.They were located in the Mediterranean south of the Iberian Peninsula, Andalusia region. The dominant vegetation of this serpentine ecosystem had been studied previously to fire; it was a shrubland composed of endemic serpentinophytes (small shrubs and perennial herbs) included in Digitali laciniatae-Halimietum atriplicifolii plant association (Cisto-Lavanduletea class) in an opened pine forest. The post-fire response of the plants was studied in the stablished burned plots by field works through permanent 200 x 10 m transect methods, consisting on checking whether they were resprouters, seeders, both of them or if they showed no survival response. Additional information about fire related functional traits is provided for the studied taxa from other studies. Of the total of plants studied (23 taxa), 74% acted as resprouters, 30% as seeders, some of which also had the capacity to resprout (13%), and only 9% of the plants did not show any survival strategy. The presence of a resprouting burl was not high (17%), although serpentine small shrubs such as Bupleurum acutifolium and the generalist Teucrium haenseleri had this kind of organ. The herbaceous taxa Sanguisorba verrucosa, Galium boissieranum and Linum carratracense were seen to be resprouters and seeders. The serpentine obligated Ni-accumulator, Alyssum serpyllifolium subsp. malacitanum, did not show any survival strategy in the face of fire and therefore their populations need monitoring after fires. In the studied ecosystems no species had traits that would protect the aerial part of the plant against fire, although most of the species are capable of post-fire generation by below ground buds. Our results show that the ecosystem studied, composed of taxa with a high degree of endemism and some of them threatened, is predominantly adapted to survival after a fire, although their response capacity may be decreased by environmental factors.

scholarly journals Holocene and earlier glaciations in the Mediterranean Mountains

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Oliva ◽  
M. A. Sarıkaya ◽  
P. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Pliocene-Pleistocene stratigraphic paleobiology at Altavilla Milicia (Palermo, Sicily): tectonic, climatic and eustatic forcing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Dominici ◽  
Marco Benvenuti ◽  
Vittorio Garilli ◽  
Alfred Uchman ◽  
Francesco Pollina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Facies ◽  
Tropical Species ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Climatic Forcing ◽  
Sediment Delivery ◽  
Depositional Sequences ◽  
Quaternary Glaciation ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Mixed Carbonate

<p>The integration of sedimentary facies analysis, ichnology and benthic mollusc quantitative paleoecology allowed to interpret factors controlling deposition of the Altavilla Milicia alluvial to marine succession, near Palermo, Sicily. Two major composite units are recognised, separated by an angular unconformity and internally subdivided into elementary depositional sequences. Calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy allowed to recognize the upper Pliocene and lower Pleistocene, a time interval that covers the onset of the Quaternary glaciation. The main asset of the succession is driven by tectonic compression and accommodation by transpressional faults, a regime that led to a change in the direction of fluvial sediment delivery, from axial to transverse with respect to the basin elongation. High-frequency eustatic changes have driven the formation of elementary depositional sequences. The upper Piacenzian is characterised by marine bioclastic strata, deposited during maximum flooding intervals of the two large composite units. Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic lithosomes show a good correlation with shallow marine shell-rich detrital carbonates of Northern and Southern Italy and with Mediterranean deep-water sapropel clusters, suggesting common climatic forcing. Some tropical species previously thought to disappear from the Mediterranean at around 3.0 Ma, are instead present in the upper Piacenzian of Sicily. The study suggests that the Pliocene macrobenthos with tropical affinities disappeared from different sectors of the Mediterranean at different times.</p>

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