Recent projections of climate change from general circulation and regional climate models over southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin show strong warming and pronounced decrease in precipitation over large portion of the region, especially in the summer. While the role of vegetation in modulating the region's climate is widely recognized, most, if not all, of these climate change projections do not account for the respons...

We explore the potential role of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) on isoprene emissions using a global coupled land–atmosphere model [Community Atmospheric Model–Community Land Model (CAM–CLM)] for recent (year 2000, 365 ppm CO 2 ) and future (year 2100, 717 ppm CO 2 ) conditions. We incorporate an empirical model of observed isoprene emissions response to both ambient CO 2 concentrations in the long‐term growth environment...