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The Need to Establish a Long-Term Ecological Research Network in Morocco as a Tool to Monitor Ecosystems Under Climate Change

The Need to Establish a Long-Term Ecological Research Network in Morocco as a Tool to Monitor Ecosystems Under Climate Change
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Author(s): Ahmed Karmaoui (Southern Center for Culture and Sciences, Morocco)and Siham Zerouali (Southern Center for Culture and Sciences, Morocco)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ahmed Karmaoui (Southern Center for Culture and Sciences (SCCS), Morocco)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7387-6.ch001

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Abstract

Several countries are associated with the long-term ecological research (LTER) program, while others are in the process of joining the network. In Morocco, there is an urgent need to be a member of this network because the diversity of challenges associated with the various ecosystems requires multidisciplinary long-term studies. The chapter discusses this need by assessing the environmental vulnerability of Morocco basing on data from the environmental vulnerability index profile. Ecosystem change and vulnerability were investigated at the sites within the LTER program by exploring the criteria of the selected sites. The driving forces, pressures, states, impacts, responses framework would be a useful approach to study and explain the ecological changes of each selected site. The chapter highlights the purpose, significance, the mission, objectives, and the international cooperation of the proposed LTER network called Mo-LTER.

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