Driving factors of biogeographical variation in seagrass herbivory

Martínez-Crego, Begoña; Prado, Patricia; Marco‐Méndez, Candela; Fernández‐Torquemada, Yolanda; Espino, Fernando; Sánchez-Lizaso, José Luís; Ossa, José A. de la; Vilella, David Mateu; Machado, Marcelo Lucas Pereira; Tuya, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143756

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“…The T seasonality , also known as the amplitude of the annual cycle of temperature and often expressed by summer‐minus‐winter temperature, is an important indicator of climate change (Braganza et al., 2003; Qian et al., 2011; Qian & Zhang, 2015; Thomson, 1995). The T seasonality is also important in biological growth (Carey, 2009; Martinez‐Crego et al., 2021; Vicente Liz et al., 2019) and agricultural production (Lambert, 1971). Therefore, it is important to understand past changes in T seasonality and project future changes in the Mediterranean region.…”

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Amplification of the Temperature Seasonality in the Mediterranean Region Under Anthropogenic Climate Change

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2022

Geophysical Research Letters

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Global and regional climate model simulations show that the Mediterranean region is vulnerable to climate change (Diffenbaugh & Giorgi, 2012;Giorgi & Lionello, 2008). Under the influence of global warming, the Mediterranean region is warming much faster in summer than in winter (Giorgi & Lionello, 2008), which is known as Mediterranean amplification (Brogli et al., 2019). Mediterranean summer warming has exceeded warming in other places worldwide (Qian & Zhang, 2015) and is higher than the average level of warming in the northern hemisphere (Lionello & Scarascia, 2018). The Mediterranean region is characterized by a transitional climate regime in the warm season, where evapotranspiration is limited by soil moisture shortages rather than solar radiation, and the soil water content therefore controls the variability of the boundary layer (Materia et al., 2021). This leads to the strong land-atmosphere coupling that becomes established during the Mediterranean summer (Orth & Seneviratne, 2017). A lack of soil moisture is therefore able to amplify and sustain heat anomalies and extremes in this area (Materia et al., 2021;Miralles et al., 2012).Increased summer warming endangers human health (Scortichini et al., 2018) and greatly increases the probability of wildfires (Turco et al., 2013), such as those that affected Italy and Greece in summer 2021 and western Europe in 2022. The amplified warming of summer temperatures compared to that of the winter temperatures in the Mediterranean region corresponds to an enhancement in the temperature seasonality (T seasonality ) (Lee et al., 2021). The T seasonality , also known as the amplitude of the annual cycle of temperature and often expressed by summer-minus-winter temperature, is an important indicator of climate change (

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