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We assessed climatic and productivity trends across the world’s five Mediterranean forest ecosystems and detected large-scale, abrupt forest browning in Chile. Extreme dry and warm conditions in Chile, unprecedented in the recent history of all Mediterranean-type ecosystems, are projected to arise in the second half of this century.

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This is a summary of: Miranda, A. et al. Widespread synchronous decline of Mediterranean-type forest driven by accelerated aridity. Nat. Plants, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01541-7(2023).

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Climate-induced large­scale browning in Chilean Mediterranean forest. Nat. Plants (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01546-2
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