Olive is of major eco-social importance for the Mediterranean Basin, a climate change and biodiversity hotspot of global relevance where remarkable climate change is expected over the next few decades with unknown ecosystem impacts. However, climate impact assessments on terrestrial ecosystems have long been constrained by a narrow methodological basis (ecological niche models, ENMs) that is correlative and hence largely omits key impact drivers such as trophic interactions and the effect of water availability, the latter being especially relevant to desertification-prone Mediterranean ecosystems. ENMs use correlative measures of water availability unsuitable for making projections about the future. To bridge this gap, mechanistic approaches such as physiologically-based weather- driven demographic models (PBDMs) may be used as they embed by design both the biology of trophic interactions and a mechanistic representation of soil water balance. Here we report progress towards assessing climate effects on olive culture across the Mediterranean region using mechanistic PBDMs that project regionally the multitrophic population dynamics of olive and olive fly as affected by daily weather and soil water balance.

Ponti, L.; Gutierrez, A.P.; Basso, B.; Neteler, M.G.; Ruti, P.M.; Dell’Aquila, A.; Iannetta, M. (2013). Olive agroecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: multitrophic analysis of climate effects with process-based representation of soil water balance. PROCEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, 19 (1): 122-131. doi: 10.1016/j.proenv.2013.06.014 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/22271

Olive agroecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: multitrophic analysis of climate effects with process-based representation of soil water balance

Neteler, Markus Georg;
2013-01-01

Abstract

Olive is of major eco-social importance for the Mediterranean Basin, a climate change and biodiversity hotspot of global relevance where remarkable climate change is expected over the next few decades with unknown ecosystem impacts. However, climate impact assessments on terrestrial ecosystems have long been constrained by a narrow methodological basis (ecological niche models, ENMs) that is correlative and hence largely omits key impact drivers such as trophic interactions and the effect of water availability, the latter being especially relevant to desertification-prone Mediterranean ecosystems. ENMs use correlative measures of water availability unsuitable for making projections about the future. To bridge this gap, mechanistic approaches such as physiologically-based weather- driven demographic models (PBDMs) may be used as they embed by design both the biology of trophic interactions and a mechanistic representation of soil water balance. Here we report progress towards assessing climate effects on olive culture across the Mediterranean region using mechanistic PBDMs that project regionally the multitrophic population dynamics of olive and olive fly as affected by daily weather and soil water balance.
Climate change
Ecosystems
Olive fly
Multitrophic analysis
Cambiamento climatico
Ecosistemi
Mosca olearia
Analisi multitrofica
Settore AGR/11 - ENTOMOLOGIA GENERALE E APPLICATA
2013
Ponti, L.; Gutierrez, A.P.; Basso, B.; Neteler, M.G.; Ruti, P.M.; Dell’Aquila, A.; Iannetta, M. (2013). Olive agroecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: multitrophic analysis of climate effects with process-based representation of soil water balance. PROCEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, 19 (1): 122-131. doi: 10.1016/j.proenv.2013.06.014 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/22271
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