Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

BT Trew, IMD Maclean - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

Climate and environmental reconstruction of the Epipaleolithic Mediterranean Levant (22.0–11.9 ka cal. BP)

D Langgut, R Cheddadi, G Sharon - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents, for the first time, an environmental reconstruction of a sequence
spanning nearly the entire Mediterranean Epipaleolithic (∼ 22.0–11.9 ka cal. BP). The study …

Vegetation response in NW Mediterranean borderlands to the millennial-scale climate variability of the last glacial period

T Fourcade, MFS Goñi, J Lesven, C Lahaye… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep-sea pollen records from the Western European margin show that during the Last
Glacial period (115-27 ka), regional vegetation oscillated between steppe and open forest in …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Climate change threatens olive oil production in the Levant

D Kaniewski, N Marriner, C Morhange, C Khater… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is one of the species best adapted to a Mediterranean-
type climate,,,,,,–. Nonetheless, the Mediterranean Basin is deemed to be a climate change …

Montology manifesto: echoes towards a transdisciplinary science of mountains

FO Sarmiento - Journal of Mountain Science, 2020 - Springer
Mountains as archetype frame some meta-geographies of the vertical dimension. Mountain
metaphors, thus, have remained as key guidance in develo** not only animistic belief …

Climate change and social unrest: A 6,000‐year chronicle from the eastern Mediterranean

D Kaniewski, N Marriner, R Cheddadi… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The history of the Eastern Mediterranean is punctuated by major crises that have influenced
many of the region's established socioeconomic models. Recent studies have underscored …

Competition modulates the response of growth to climate in pure and mixed Abies pinsapo subsp. maroccana forests in northern Morocco

RM Navarro-Cerrillo, RD Manzanedo… - Forest ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The effects of changes in structure and composition on the dynamics and responses of
secondary forests to climate change are understudied. Secondary forests of Abies pinsapo …

Effect of climate change on potential distribution of Cedrus libani A. Rich in the twenty-first century: an Ecological Niche Modeling assessment

J López-Tirado, F Vessella, J Stephan, S Ayan… - New Forests, 2021 - Springer
The present study is focused on the potential distribution of the Lebanese cedar (Cedrus
libani) in the present and in the future throughout the twenty-first century. The location of this …

Cold and dry outbreaks in the eastern Mediterranean 3200 years ago

D Kaniewski, N Marriner, R Cheddadi… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Can climate affect societies? This question, of both past and present importance, is
encapsulated by the major socioeconomic crisis that affected the Mediterranean 3200 yr …