scholarly journals Resilience of Mediterranean Forests to Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sferlazza Sebastiano ◽  
Maetzke Federico Guglielmo ◽  
Miozzo Marcello ◽  
La Mela Veca Donato Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Forests

Effects of air quality on the health of Mediterranean forests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián García Bruzón ◽  
Patricia Arrogante Funes ◽  
Laura Muñoz Moral
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Aridity Index ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Random Forest Algorithm ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Heterogeneous Variables ◽  
Peninsular Spain

<p>The climate change has turned out to be a determining factor in the development of forest in Spain. Production systems have emitted polluting gases and other particles into the atmosphere, for which some plants have not yet developed adaptation systems. Among the most harmful pollutants for the environment are gases such as nitrous oxides, ozone, particulate matter.</p><p>However, this condition is not the same in Peninsular Spain, and the Balearic Islands since the plant compositions differ in the territory and the bioclimatic, topographic, and anthropic characteristics. Monitoring the vegetation with sufficient spatial and temporal resolution, studying variables conditioning plant health is a challenge from the nature of the variables and the amount of data to be handled. </p><p>The Mediterranean forest is one of the most ecosystem affected by climate change because of usually experimented long periods of drought that, in combination with increased temperatures, can drastically reduce the photosynthetic activity of trees and therefore the biomass of forests.</p><p>That is why the application of environmental technologies based on Remote Sensing (which provide plant health indices from passive sensors on satellite platforms and other variables of interest), Geographic Information Systems (to integrate, process, analyze spatial and temporal data) and machine learning models (which facilitate the extraction of relationships between variables, conditioning factors and predict patterns). </p><p>In this regard, this work's objective is to evaluate the possible effect that different pollutants have on the health of the vegetation, measured from the annual values of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), in the Mediterranean forests of Peninsular Spain. To achieve this, we are used machine learning techniques using the Random Forest algorithm. The study has also been done with various climatic, topographic, and anthropic variables that characterize the forest to carry it out. </p><p>The results showed that certain variables such as the aridity index had generated the NDVI values and therefore plant development, while others are limiting factors such as the concentration of certain pollutants and the direct relationship between them particulates and NOx. This study can verify how the Random Forest algorithm offers reliable results, even when working with heterogeneous variables. </p>

scholarly journals Sub-chapter 2.4.1. Mediterranean forests, biocultural heritage and climate change

2016 ◽  
pp. 339-348
Author(s):  
Thierry Gauquelin ◽  
Geneviève Michon ◽  
Richard Joffre ◽  
Robin Duponnois ◽  
Didier Genin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Biocultural Heritage

scholarly journals Effects of Climate Change on Vegetation in Mediterranean Forests: A review

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 240-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.D. Solomou ◽  
N.D. Proutsos ◽  
G. Karetsos ◽  
K. Tsagari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Forests

scholarly journals Climate change resilience of Mediterranean forests

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Guglielmo Maetzke ◽  
Sebastiano Cullotta ◽  
Marcello Miozzo ◽  
Luciano Saporito ◽  
Sebastiano Sferlazza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Climate Change Resilience

scholarly journals Perceptions of forest experts on climate change and fire management in European Mediterranean forests

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Raftoyannis ◽  
S Nocentini ◽  
E Marchi ◽  
R Calama Sainz ◽  
C Garcia Guemes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Mediterranean Forests

scholarly journals Mediterranean forests, land use and climate change: a social-ecological perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Gauquelin ◽  
Geneviève Michon ◽  
Richard Joffre ◽  
Robin Duponnois ◽  
Didier Génin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Potential Analysis of Mediterranean Forestry for Offsetting GHG Emissions at Regional Level: Evidence from Valencia, Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4168
Author(s):  
Edgar Lorenzo-Sáez ◽  
Jose-Vicente Oliver-Villanueva ◽  
Victoria Lerma-Arce ◽  
Celia Yagüe-Hurtado ◽  
Lenin Guillermo Lemus-Zúñiga
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Carbon Fixation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Carbon Markets

Forest management is an untapped tool, yet to realize its full potential to fight against climate change. The capability of forests to act as carbon sinks makes them a key resource to reduce CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. However, carbon which has been fixed can be suddenly emitted again as a consequence of disturbances such as pests or wildfires. Mediterranean plant phenology, climatic conditions, and the accumulation of fuel biomass due to abandonment of traditional forest uses generate a scenario prone to large wildfires and consequently large greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The abandonment could be offset by considering the economic value of forest ecosystem services, principally carbon fixation. Nevertheless, currently existing forest carbon markets consider only anthropogenic fixation based on a business as usual scenario without disturbances that cannot be applied to Mediterranean forest reality. Thus, a methodology to monetize carbon fixed has been developed and applied. A range between 55.5 and 250 million € produced by the monetization of 16.5 million potential carbon credits has been obtained based on anthropogenic avoided emissions produced over a 10 year-period. Thereby, the potential for offsetting emissions of the pilot region was between 1.2% and 5.6% of total diffuse GHG emissions. Consequently, sustainable forest management represents an important opportunity to combat climate change, taking advantage of the margin of improvement that the Mediterranean forests currently have to avoid GHG emissions through forest fire prevention silviculture.

scholarly journals Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1139
Author(s):  
Roxane Sansilvestri ◽  
Mateo Cordier ◽  
Thibault Lescuyer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Wood Biomass ◽  
Economic Goods

International policies promote renewable forms of energy to mitigate climate change. In Europe, the production of electricity using wood biomass represents one of the most popular energy alternatives. In 2012, France initiated a large-scale strategy to develop wood biomass energy. The biggest wood biomass power-plant project has been developed in the French Mediterranean area and its huge size raises several issues for the short- and long-term sustainability of local forests and associated economic sectors. The French Mediterranean forests provide four types of economic goods (private, club, common, and public goods) and multiple ecosystem services, which makes them complex to manage under an energy transition policy. In this paper, we applied three qualitative methods, namely interviews, participative workshops, and observant participation, and three conceptual models, namely (i) Ostrom’s (2010) self-organization key conditions, (ii) the types of economic goods classified according to their excludability and rivalry properties, and (iii) the ecosystem service categorization system of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). With our methods, we show that the renewable strategy chosen in France replicates the current centralized production model based on fossil and nuclear fuels. Thus, we demonstrate that European, national, and local authorities fail to consider the multiple ecosystem services that forest management strategies should include to face the energy transition, climate change, and the other ecological challenges of the 21st century.

Climate Change Effects on Mediterranean Forests and Preventive Measures

New Forests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Resco de Dios ◽  
Christine Fischer ◽  
Carlos Colinas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Climate Change Effects
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