Climate change risks to global forest health: emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide

H Hartmann, A Bastos, AJ Das… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and
drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack …

[HTML][HTML] Soil degradation in the European Mediterranean region: Processes, status and consequences

CSS Ferreira, S Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, G Destouni… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil, a non-renewable resource, sustains life on Earth by supporting around 95% of global
food production and providing ecosystem services such as biomass production, filtration of …

Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector–a review

LA Kautz, O Martius, S Pfahl, JG Pinto… - Weather and Climate …, 2021 - wcd.copernicus.org
The physical understanding and timely prediction of extreme weather events are of
enormous importance to society due to their associated impacts. In this article, we highlight …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries

A Montanari, H Nguyen, S Rubinetti, S Ceola… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The causes of recent hydrological droughts and their future evolution under a changing
climate are still poorly understood. Banking on a 216-year river flow time series at the Po …

Forest tree species adaptation to climate across biomes: Building on the legacy of ecological genetics to anticipate responses to climate change

L Leites, M Benito Garzón - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation plays a critical role in extant and future forest responses to climate
change. Forest tree species with wide climatic niches rely on the intraspecific variation …

Climate change in the Mediterranean Basin (Part II): a review of challenges and uncertainties in climate change modeling and impact analyses

LV Noto, G Cipolla, D Pumo, A Francipane - Water Resources …, 2023 - Springer
The Mediterranean basin is particularly prone to climate change and vulnerable to its
impacts. One of the most relevant consequences of climate change, especially for the …

Climate change in the mediterranean basin (part I): Induced alterations on climate forcings and hydrological processes

LV Noto, G Cipolla, A Francipane, D Pumo - Water Resources …, 2023 - Springer
In the last years, the Mediterranean basin has been widely recognized as one of the most
vulnerable areas in the world to climate change; because of its high concentration of urban …

Water scarcity down to earth surface in a Mediterranean climate: The extreme future of soil moisture in Portugal

PMM Soares, DCA Lima - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change constitutes a major threat for all the Mediterranean countries due to the
combination of large precipitation reductions and temperature increases and the higher …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management

V Blauhut, M Stoelzle, L Ahopelto… - … hazards and earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Drought events and their impacts vary spatially and temporally due to diverse pedo-climatic
and hydrologic conditions, as well as variations in exposure and vulnerability, such as …