The threat of soil salinity: A European scale review

IN Daliakopoulos, IK Tsanis, A Koutroulis… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil salinisation is one of the major soil degradation threats occurring in Europe. The effects
of salinisation can be observed in numerous vital ecological and non-ecological soil …

Erosion in Mediterranean landscapes: Changes and future challenges

JM García-Ruiz, E Nadal-Romero, N Lana-Renault… - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
Intense erosion processes are widespread in the Mediterranean region, and include sheet
wash erosion, rilling, gullying, shallow landsliding, and the development of large and active …

[图书][B] Coping with water scarcity: Addressing the challenges

LS Pereira, I Cordery, I Iacovides - 2009 - books.google.com
One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water.
There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems …

Human impacts on fluvial systems in the Mediterranean region

JM Hooke - Geomorphology, 2006 - Elsevier
The long history of substantial human impacts on the landscape of the Mediterranean
region, and their effects on fluvial systems, is documented. These effects have included …

Participatory scenario construction in land use analysis: An insight into the experiences created by stakeholder involvement in the Northern Mediterranean

M Patel, K Kok, DS Rothman - Land use policy, 2007 - Elsevier
Desertification can be effectively managed only through a thorough understanding of its
principal ecological, socio-cultural, and economic driving forces. This has stimulated …

Fine-scale ecological and economic assessment of climate change on olive in the Mediterranean Basin reveals winners and losers

L Ponti, AP Gutierrez, PM Ruti… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The Mediterranean Basin is a climate and biodiversity hot spot, and climate change
threatens agro-ecosystems such as olive, an ancient drought-tolerant crop of considerable …

Impact of secondary vegetation succession on soil quality in a humid Mediterranean landscape

RL Van Hall, LH Cammeraat, SD Keesstra, M Zorn - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Former agricultural fields are increasingly abandoned in several regions in Southern
Europe. In many cases this leads to vegetation succession which may have a direct impact …

[图书][B] Fundamentals of the physical environment

P Smithson, K Addison, K Atkinson - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Fundamentals of the Physical Environment has established itself as a well-respected core
introductory book for students of physical geography and the environmental sciences …

Erosion and terrace failure due to agricultural land abandonment in a semi‐arid environment

JP Lesschen, LH Cammeraat… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural land abandonment is currently widely spread in Mediterranean countries and a
further increase is expected. Previous research has shown that abandoned fields in semi …

Multi-GCM projections of future drought and climate variability indicators for the Mediterranean region

M Dubrovský, M Hayes, P Duce, M Trnka… - Regional Environmental …, 2014 - Springer
Future climate conditions for the Mediterranean region based on an ensemble of 16 Global
Climate Models are expressed and mapped using three approaches, giving special …