Chang, Chao-Ting (Date of defense: 2017-07-07)
The variations of ecosystem and soil respiration are mainly driven by temperature and precipitation, but the importance of temperature and precipitation could vary across temporal and spatial. At diurnal ...
Sperlich, Dominik (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
The Mediterranean Basin is a climate-change hotspot of the world. Predicted reductions in annual precipitation, increases in mean temperature, and increases in the variability and occurrence of extreme ...
Poblador Ibáñez, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
During the last decades, most of the studies based on climate change effects on vegetation physiology have focused on upland forests and species at their border of distribution, since, in both conditions, ...
Nadal Sala, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Semi-arid environments are zones where annual precipitation is less than a half of annual potential evapotranspiration, yet water availability is high enough to allow tree growth. Climate change is ...