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Water Balance of Mediterranean Ecosystems Under a Changing Climate

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Global Change and Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 117))

Abstract

As Walter Oechel and others present in this book, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide will generally induce a positive effect on net primary production for the plants. Other undetermined effects will likely result from a changing climate. Negative effects are predictable if the amount of rainfall decreases or if, the mean amount being fixed, the frequency of rare events (drought periods,…) increases. To anticipate the effect of global change, it is necessary to determine the intersect of these two contradictory effects.

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  1. Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    José M. Moreno

  2. Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, USA

    Walter C. Oechel

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Rambal, S., Debussche, G. (1995). Water Balance of Mediterranean Ecosystems Under a Changing Climate. In: Moreno, J.M., Oechel, W.C. (eds) Global Change and Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 117. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4186-7_19

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