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Driving Forces of Land-Use Change in a Cultural Landscape of Spain
The aim of this chapter is to examine the processes of change in land cover and land use over the last 44 years, at regional scale, in a traditional, rural south-eastern Spanish catchment. Land use has changed...
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African Dust Influence on Rainwater on the Eastern Coast of Spain
In the southeastern coast of Spain bulk deposition was collected, on a daily basis during multiple-day episodes, in order to relate precipitation composition to air mass origins. Samples were analyzed for majo...
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Structure, biomass and production of a resprouted holm-oak (Quercus ilex L.) forest in NE Spain
When considered as a compartment of nutrients (biomass) and as a flux between compartments (production) vegetation plays an important role in the biogeochemical forest research that is carried out at the Prade...
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Litterfall as a measure of primary production in Mediterranean holm-oak forest
In this paper we discuss the use of litterfall as a method to measure primary production and its between year relation to climatic fluctuation. Seven years of study in a mediterranean holm-oak forest showed a ...
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Hydrochemical Budgets, Nutrient Cycles and Hydrological Responses in the Quercus ILEX Forest of Prades Catchments
In this paper we present a perspective of the objetives in the Prades project, as well as some results of 7 years of study on Hydrochemical budgets, and water and nutrient fluxes in the holm-oak forest (bulk d...
