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Plant Development in Mediterranean Climates

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Abstract

The summer dry, winter wet climates (Mediterranean) of the world are located in five disjunct areas which generally lie on the west sides of continents between latitudes of 30° to 40° (Fig. 1). All of these areas have vegetations dominated by evergreen sclerophyllous shrubs and trees, and with annuals and herbaceous perennials as additional important vegetation components (Specht, 1969; Mooney and Dunn, 1970; di Castri and Mooney, 1973).

Keywords

  • Mediterranean climate
  • chaparral
  • California
  • Chile
  • sclerophyll
  • drought
  • shrub
  • phenolics
  • predation
  • phenology
  • resource division
  • carbon balance
  • carbon apportionment

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  1. David J. Parsons

    Present address: U.S.D.I., National Park Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, California, 93271, USA

  2. Jochen Kummerow

    Present address: Department of Botany, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92115, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 94305, USA

    Harold A. Mooney & David J. Parsons

  2. Laboratório de Botánica, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Jochen Kummerow

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  1. Professor of Botany and Ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514, USA

    Helmut Lieth Ph.D.

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Mooney, H.A., Parsons, D.J., Kummerow, J. (1974). Plant Development in Mediterranean Climates. In: Lieth, H. (eds) Phenology and Seasonality Modeling. Ecological Studies, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51863-8_22

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