Introducing the climate change effects on Mediterranean forest ecosystems : observation, experimentation, simulation and management

An increasing number of observational evidences on the biological effects of climate change is becoming available in the Mediterranean forests. Many changes have been observed in the last decades in response to this climatic change which will affect the physiology, phenology, growth, reproduction, establishment and, finally, the distribution of organisms, and therefore the structure and functioning of our forests. The management of the forested areas has to be dealt with at the landscape scale, in a planning that considers the combination of different spaces, as well as their multiple uses and the effect of the disturbances, like for example forest fires