[PDF] Top 20 Ecological and evolutionary responses of Mediterranean plants to global change

... patterns of plasticity in response to the different stresses (water and nutrients) and in different trait categories (reproductive, fitness and resource allocation) ... See full document

... aim of this review was to understand phenotypic plasticity of plants in a global change ...plastic responses to global change scenarios are abundant ... See full document

... population and individual level. Ecological studies fre- quently ignore effects on intra-individual and intra-population variance, although the- ories suggest that changes in trait variance may ... See full document

... Climate change is one of the most powerful driving forces of these dynamics and, in the Mediterranean basin, its severity has markedly increased in recent years (IPCC ...climate ... See full document

... introduced to North America in the early 1900's, primarily as a contaminant of Turkestan alfalfa (Medicago sativa) seed (Watson, 1980) and possibly sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris) seed (Maddox et ... See full document

... addition to these changes in the reproductive output of ...duration, and peak of reproductive and dispersal events in response to habitat quality and climate change ... See full document

... importance of forest genetic diversity for forest sustainability is widely recognized, but nevertheless usually ignored when developing indicators and guidelines for forest management under climate ... See full document

... aspects of tree-grass interactions that warrant further ...effect of livestock grazing or the contribution of individual herbaceous species, especially those representing protected herbaceous ... See full document

... of Mediterranean annual pastures via changes in the competitive relationships among species (Gonz alez-Fern andez et ...2013 and references therein; Calvete-Sogo et ...fauna and above- ... See full document

... interesting ecological and functional implications. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a connection has been made between RGR and new organ composition in remobilized C and ... See full document

... presence of other tree species (i.e., non-host plants) reduced damage ...that responses varied depending on the arthropod group (Plath et al. 2012) and fruit ...levels of damage caused ... See full document

... robust to the potential random loss of frugivorous species due to local extinction, but at the same time it is sensitive to the selective loss of the most generalist ...us of the ... See full document

... abstracts of the keynotes, oral contributions and posters presented by participants on the occasion of the Forum on Fisheries Science in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (Fish Forum ... See full document

... separation of two response classes shown above, we attempted to dissect out the contribution of CB1 activation to different elements of the visual response, transient ...compared ... See full document

... Mn) and organic pollutants of different families (hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides and other organochlorinated compounds, phenols and ... See full document

... relative water content was reduced to 54.3% in the control plants under water limiting 5... plants, respectively Fig.[r] ... See full document

... order to get a better understanding of the evolutionary process underwent by such material entities� At present, however, the precise way in which the advocated synthesis may proceed is less than ... See full document

... universality of the phenomenon, with only a few papers daring to suggest an evolutionary explanation in a couple of ...attempt to prove the influence of culture in preference for ... See full document

... response to environmental crisis, Meeker recommends the picaresque tradition, of day-to-day, on the road, adventure and improvisation, as against the pastoral tradition with its lament for ... See full document

... Classic and modern authors in economics use metaphors constantly. It is a way of argumentation that sometimes can even be an example simultaneously and, consequently, convince and make ... See full document