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Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts Open
In this study involving persons at high cardiovascular risk, the incidence of major cardiovascular events was lower among those assigned to a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts than among those assigned to …
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Applied Ecology and Environmental Research Open
Turfgrass is a major vegetation type in urban and peri-urban areas. Being high maintenance ecosystems, turfs can contribute substantially to urban climate change. The object of this study was to evaluate the contribution to GHG emissions b…
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Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe? Open
As a result of climate change in recent past and unsustainable land management, drought became one of the most impacting disasters and, with the projected global warming, it is expected to progressively cause more damages by the end of the…
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Changing climate shifts timing of European floods Open
Flooding along the river Will a warming climate affect river floods? The prevailing sentiment is yes, but a consistent signal in flood magnitudes has not been found. Blöschl et al. analyzed the timing of river floods in Europe over the pas…
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Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change Open
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating climate change. Here, we review current understanding of the…
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Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios Open
There is strong evidence that climate change will increase drought risk and severity, but these conclusions depend on the regions, seasons, and drought metrics being considered. We analyze changes in drought across the hydrologic cycle (pr…
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The 2010–2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation Open
Since 2010 an uninterrupted sequence of dry years, with annual rainfall deficits ranging from 25 to 45 %, has prevailed in central Chile (western South America, 30–38° S). Although intense 1- or 2-year droughts are recurrent in this Medite…
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Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events Open
Extreme wildfires have substantial economic, social and environmental impacts, but there is uncertainty whether such events are inevitable features of the Earth's fire ecology or a legacy of poor management and planning. We identify 478 ex…
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Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East Open
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives have addressed the impacts of climate change in parts of the EM…
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Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003 Open
In recent decades, an increasing persistence of atmospheric circulation patterns has been observed. In the course of the associated long-lasting anticyclonic summer circulations, heatwaves and drought spells often coincide, leading to so-c…
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Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed Open
During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of megafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs). Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies in MCRs are destined to fail. Focused …
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Early Flowering as a Drought Escape Mechanism in Plants: How Can It Aid Wheat Production? Open
Drought escape (DE) is a classical adaptive mechanism which involves rapid plant development to enable the completion of the full life-cycle prior to a coming drought event. This strategy is widely used in populations of native plants, and…
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Cancer and Mediterranean Diet: A Review Open
The Mediterranean diet is considered one of the most worldwide healthy dietary patterns thanks to a combination of foods rich mainly in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients. Many studies have demonstrated a strong and inverse relat…
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A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016 Open
We derived trends in drought frequency and severity, separately for SPI and SPEI at a 12-month accumulation scale, which is usually related to hydrological droughts. Results show several drought hotspots in the last decades: Amazonia, sout…
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Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea Open
Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) and mass mortality events (MMEs) of marine organisms are one of their main ecological impacts. Here, we show that during the 2015–2019 period, …
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Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study Open
UK Space Agency, Royal Society, UK National Institute for Health Research, and Swedish Research Council.
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Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years Open
Recent Mediterranean droughts have highlighted concerns that climate change may be contributing to observed drying trends, but natural climate variability in the region is still poorly understood. We analyze 900 years (1100–2012) of Medite…
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Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands Open
Soil biota and plant diversity Soil biota, including symbionts such as mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, as well as fungal and bacterial pathogens, affect terrestrial plant diversity and growth patterns (see the Perspective b…
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Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot? Open
Higher precipitation is expected over most of the world’s continents under climate change, except for a few specific regions where models project robust declines. Among these, the Mediterranean stands out as a result of the magnitude and s…
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Med Diet 4.0: the Mediterranean diet with four sustainable benefits Open
Objective To characterize the multiple dimensions and benefits of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet, in order to revitalize this intangible food heritage at the country level; and to develop a multidimensional framework – the Me…
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Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise Open
UNESCO World Heritage sites (WHS) located in coastal areas are increasingly at risk from coastal hazards due to sea-level rise. In this study, we assess Mediterranean cultural WHS at risk from coastal flooding and erosion under four sea-le…
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Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile Open
The updated Köppen–Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. This study included 200 weather stations and climate surfaces at a scale…
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Precipitation in a warming world: Assessing projected hydro-climate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions Open
In most Mediterranean climate (MedClim) regions around the world, global climate models (GCMs) consistently project drier futures. In California, however, projections of changes in annual precipitation are inconsistent. Analysis of daily p…
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Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns Open
Background: Nowadays the food production, supply and consumption chain represent a major cause of ecological pressure on the natural environment, and diet links worldwide human health with environmental sustainability. Food policy, dietary…
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Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean Open
A 10,000-year transect of Roman populations Rome wasn't built (or settled) in a day. Antonio et al. performed an ancestral DNA analysis to investigate the genetic changes that occurred in Rome and central Italy from the Mesolithic into mod…
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Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems Open
A warming limit for the Mediterranean basin Pollen cores from sediments provide rich detail on the history of vegetation and climate in the Mediterranean during the Holocene (the most recent ~10,000 years). Guiot and Cramer used this infor…
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A Review of the Most Common and Economically Important Diseases That Undermine the Cultivation of Tomato Crop in the Mediterranean Basin Open
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean region and throughout the world. In 2019, more than 180 millio…
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Length-weight relationships and relative condition factor of fish inhabiting the marine area of the Eastern Mediterranean city, Tripoli-Lebanon Open
Length-weight relationships (LWRs) and relative condition factor are of great importance in fishery assessment studies since it provide information about the growth of the fish, its general wellbeing, and fitness in a marine habitat. LWRs …
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Increased likelihood of heat-induced large wildfires in the Mediterranean Basin Open
Wildfire activity is expected to increase across the Mediterranean Basin because of climate change. However, the effects of future climate change on the combinations of atmospheric conditions that promote wildfire activity remain largely u…
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Transferability of the Mediterranean Diet to Non-Mediterranean Countries. What Is and What Is Not the Mediterranean Diet Open
Substantial evidence has verified the Mediterranean diet’s (MedDiet) nutritional adequacy, long-term sustainability, and effectiveness for preventing hard clinical events from cardiovascular disease (CVD), as well as increasing longevity. …