Rainfall reliability, a neglected factor in explaining convergence and divergence of plant traits in fire-prone mediterranean-climate ecosystems
By Richard M. Cowling, F. Ojeda, B. Lamont, P. Rundel, R. Lechmere-Oertel. 2005
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Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change
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- LIFE HISTORY TYPE AND WATER STRESS TOLERANCE IN NINE CALIFORNIA CHAPARRAL SPECIES (RHAMNACEAE) (2007, background): “Key words: cavitation; Ceanothus; drought; fire; non-sprouting; sprouting; water potential; Rhamnus; xylem.”
- The challenge of plant regeneration after fire in the Mediterranean Basin: scientific gaps in our knowledge on plant strategies and evolution of traits (2007, background): “This idea is underlined by an intercontinental comparison of plant traits in relation to winter rain predictability (Cowling et al. 2005).”
- Glacial refugia influence plant diversity patterns in the Mediterranean Basin (2009, background): “There is growing evidence both at a global scale (Jansson, 2003) and for mediterranean-type ecosystems (Cowling et al., 2005) that the areas with high contemporary diversity and endemism are those that have experienced long-term climate stability.”
- Projecting climate change impacts on species distributions in megadiverse South African Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Regions: Opportunities and challenges (2009, background): “The CFR and the SWAFR have Mediterranean climates characterized by marked cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers with fire being a recurring disturbance and driver of ecosystem dynamics (Cowling et al. 2005).”
- Growth response to climate and drought in Pinus nigra Arn. trees of different crown classes (2008, background): “Furthermore, when summer precipitation occurs it is most often as erratic, brief storm events that might only affect a small part of the region and might not significantly influence soil water content (Cowling et al. 2005).”
- Xylem density, biomechanics and anatomical traits correlate with water stress in 17 evergreen shrub species of the Mediterranean‐type climate region of South Africa (2007, background): “The range of Pmin among the species included in this study is similar to the evergreen sclerophyllous shrubs of the Mediterranean-type climate region of California and suggests that co-occurring shrubs in these regions may similarly utilize water resources in spite of differences in rainfall reliabi”
- Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: the Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia (2008, background): “Among the world’s ecosystems, Mediterranean-type ecosystems (i.e. shrublands characterized by summer drought and winter rainfall, Cowling et al., 2005) are some of the most biologically diverse (Cowling et al., 1996) and most sensitive to multiple drivers of global change (Sala et al., 2000).”
- OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (2009, background): “Only the subdued flat landscape of the Southwest Australian Floristic Region is of comparable age and greater climatic stability (Cowling et al. 2005a) and also has experienced prolonged absence of glaciation, but the Australian deserts are of mid-late Tertiary age (Hopper 2005; Byrne et al. 2008),…”
- Patterns of geophyte diversity and storage organ size in the winter‐rainfall region of southern Africa (2005, background): “The reliability of this winter rain is extremely high, both within the fynbos and succulent karoo biome parts (Desmet & Cowling, 1999; Cowling et al., 2005).”