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Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Mediterranean Forests

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Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 216))

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The Mediterranean climate is characterized by a regime of hot summer droughts and winter rains in the mid-latitudes, roughly between 30° and 45° North and South of the equator. The main area lying within the Mediterranean climate is the Mediterranean basin, but this climate also occurs in coastal areas of California, South America, South Africa and South and Western Australia.

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  1. Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l’Aigua, IDÆA – CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

    Pilar Llorens & Jérôme Latron

  2. Instituto de Recursos Naturales, IRN – CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

    Miguel Álvarez-Cobelas

  3. Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, CREAF, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Martínez-Vilalta

  4. Deptartment de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la Tierra. I.T. Forestal, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

    Gerardo Moreno

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  1. Dept. of Geography, Center for Climate Research, University of Delaware, Newark, 19716-2541, Delaware, USA

    Delphis F. Levia

  2. , Department of Geography, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, V2C 5N3, British Columbia, Canada

    Darryl Carlyle-Moses

  3. , Department of International Affairs, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan

    Tadashi Tanaka

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Llorens, P., Latron, J., Álvarez-Cobelas, M., Martínez-Vilalta, J., Moreno, G. (2011). Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Mediterranean Forests. In: Levia, D., Carlyle-Moses, D., Tanaka, T. (eds) Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry. Ecological Studies, vol 216. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1363-5_14

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