<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>3</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Impacts of climate change and elevated CO2 on trees in regions with a Mediterranean type of climate</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON TREE PHYSIOLOGY AND FOREST ECOSYSTEMS</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SPRINGER</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PO BOX 17, 3300 AA DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">52</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">213-223</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0-7923-4921-0</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Research on the effects of global changes on Mediterranean trees is&lt;br/&gt;still limited. In terms of growth response to elevated CO2,&lt;br/&gt;Mediterranean trees were not different from temperate-zone trees, i.e.,&lt;br/&gt;growth enhancement seems to be short-lived, declining after the first&lt;br/&gt;growing seasons in elevated CO2. In Mediterranean landscapes important&lt;br/&gt;soil fertility gradients can be found. Such differences, mainly in soil&lt;br/&gt;nitrogen, may interact with elevated CO2, as shown by the enhancement of&lt;br/&gt;the response to high CO2 by abundant N in Fraxinus angustifolia (a&lt;br/&gt;deciduous, riparian tree) and Quercus suber (an evergreen oak). Given&lt;br/&gt;the characteristics of the regional climate, special attention in&lt;br/&gt;research was given to the interaction between elevated CO2 and the&lt;br/&gt;summer stress, i.e., heat and high irradiance stresses superimposed on&lt;br/&gt;water deficits. We discuss the possibility that elevated CO2 may&lt;br/&gt;alleviate some of the negative effects of that summer stresses, as was&lt;br/&gt;found in Quercus suber seedlings under controlled conditions or in&lt;br/&gt;Quercus ilex with a life-time exposure to elevated CO2.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>