caa a22 4500 445383917 CHVBK 20180317143026.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10021-011-9437-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10021-011-9437-7 Repercussions of Simulated Climate Change on the Diversity of Woody-Recruit Bank in a Mediterranean-type Ecosystem [Elektronische Daten] [Luis Matías, Regino Zamora, Jorge Castro] Extreme climatic events have the potential to affect plant communities around the world, and especially in the Mediterranean basin, where the frequency of milder and drier summers is expected to be altered under a global-change scenario. We experimentally investigated the effect of three contrasting climatic scenarios on the diversity and abundance of the natural woody-recruit bank among three characteristic habitats in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem: forest, shrubland, and bare soil. The climatic scenarios were dry summers (30% summer rainfall reduction), wet summers (simulating summer storms), and current climatic conditions (control). Seedling emergence and survival after the first summer was recorded during 4 consecutive years. The wet summer boosted abundance and diversity at emergence and summer survival, rendering the highest Shannon H′ index. By contrast, the dry summer had no effect on emergence, although survival tended to decline. Nonetheless, the habitat had a key role, bare soil showing almost null recruitment whatever the climatic scenario, and forest keeping the highest diversity in all of them. Our results show that recruit-bank density and diversity depends heavily on extreme climatic events. Community dynamics will depend not only on increased drought but also on the balance between dry and wet years. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 abundance nationallicence climatic variability nationallicence diversity nationallicence drought nationallicence extreme events nationallicence recruitment nationallicence Matías Luis Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut Zamora Regino Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut Castro Jorge Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut Ecosystems Springer-Verlag 14/4(2011-06-01), 672-682 1432-9840 14:4<672 2011 14 10021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-011-9437-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-011-9437-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Matías Luis Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zamora Regino Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castro Jorge Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecosystems Springer-Verlag 14/4(2011-06-01), 672-682 1432-9840 14:4<672 2011 14 10021 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer