Diferencias en la evolución del paisaje entre dos municipios Prepirenaicos: Alquézar y Valle de Lierp, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX

Heredia-Laclaustra, A.; Frutos-Mejías, L. M.; Gonzalez‐Hidalgo, J. C.

doi:10.3989/pirineos.2013.168005

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“…These influences have been widely documented by other studies performed in mountainous Mediterranean areas in the second half of the 20th century. They show that the trend of forest expansion is mainly caused by the abandonment of traditional management practises such as grazing, burning and cutting (Marull et al, 2014;Mor an-Ord oñez, Su arez-Seoane, Calvo, & de Luis, 2011), also combined with land abandonment (Arn aez, Lasanta, Errea, & Ortigosa, 2011;Heredia-Laclaustra et al, 2013;Lasanta et al, 2006;Roura-Pascual, Pons, Etienne, & Lambert, 2005). Within forest species Q. ilex experienced the greatest expansion as the largest losses in shrub surface were converted into a Q. ilex formation.…”

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Evaluation of forest cover change using remote sensing techniques and landscape metrics in Moncayo Natural Park (Spain)

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Section: Spatial Analysis In Forest Structurementioning

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Evaluation of forest cover change using remote sensing techniques and landscape metrics in Moncayo Natural Park (Spain)

2015

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“…Los cambios de uso del suelo, marcados sobre todo por el abandono de tierras y la sucesión vegetal, muestran una leve simplificación del patrón tradicional, ya que el paisaje conserva un grado de complejidad bastante elevado, como herencia de su pasado con fuerte presencia de actividades humanas. No obstante, tras el abandono agrícola el paisaje pierde coherencia y heterogeneidad, caminando hacia un paisaje más simplificado, desfragmentado y muy homogéneo, donde las manchas son de tamaño mayor que en el paisaje tradicional y menor la diversidad de usos y cubiertas del suelo Vilà Subirós et al, 2009;Arnáez et al, 2011;Heredia et al, 2013).…”

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Una revisión sobre las tierras abandonadas en España: de los paisajes locales a las estrategias globales de gestión

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Abandoned lands occupy extensive territories in some Spanish regions, particularly in mountain areas and semiarid environments. These lands originate very diverse landscapes depending on the climatic conditions, the age of abandonment, the management before and after abandonment, and the disturbances that they suffer during the post-abandoned process. These factors condition the plant succession and soil properties, producing contrasted ecosystems and landscapes, like forests, shrublands, grasslands and almost bare soils. This study reviews the current knowledge about land abandonment in Spain, with special reference to the spatial and temporal process of abandonment, the factors that originate different ecosystems, and landscapes in abandoned lands, and the implications of these factors in the provision of ecosystem services to society. Depending on the landscape generated and its management, different services would be provided, such as the quality and quantity of water resources, soil protection, carbon sequestration, levels of biodiversity, prevention and control of forest fires, pastoral resources, landscape aesthetics, and even the possibilities of securing population in the rural environment through extensive land uses.

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“…Simultaneously with industrialisation and service development processes (Lizárraga and Chica-Olmo, 2014), huge migrations took place from rural areas to large cities and, in general, from inland to the coast (Heredia-Laclaustra et al, 2013). These transformations happened later in comparison to the countries of Central andNorthern Europe andfaster (especially between 1955 and1975), without any socioeconomic and spatial strategic planning (Mataix-Solera and Cerdà, 2009).…”

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Land use/cover change analysis in the Mediterranean region: a regional case study of forest evolution in Castelló (Spain) over 50 years

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The second half of the 20th century has been characterised by the rural abandonment in several regions of the Mediterranean basin. The general collapse of traditional agriculture and livestock activities brought about an intensive migration movement from inland to coastal areas, which produced a massive forest cover increase in abandoned rural areas. This socioeconomic, spatial and environmental change has led to a situation unknown for centuries in the Mediterranean landscapes. As a consequence, large wildfires have increased enormously in importance in a society with a predominant urban vision over the rest of the territory. Indeed, public opinion considers wildfires as major natural disturbances related to climate change causing at the end deforestation, while its prerequisite, a substantial increase of forest cover due to rural collapse, is less known. This research aimed to deepen the knowledge about forest evolution and its implications after the land abandonment process that started in the second half of the 20th century. The substantive source of information was obtained from a photointerpretation by sampling, using five general land-cover and land-use types and four specific land-cover types over a period of 50 years in the province of Castelló (Valencian Region, Spain). Results showed that the area dominated by dense forests (shrublands and woodlands) has increased from 17% to 28%, and the area dominated by their transitional land uses after farming abandonment has increased from 8% to 21%. Transition matrices enabled a precise identification of changes among dominant categories over the studied period. Random and systematic transitions between categories have been analysed and a map of forest evolution pathways could be drawn, in which a double alternative path was identified. In the general context of progressive evolution to dense forests in the Mediterranean region, we have also found different evolution rates which may depend on site conditions. Their specific soil and climatic factors should be further analysed in order to improve our understanding of future forest evolution in the Mediterranean region at a local scale. A robust knowledge of these processes will contribute to improve forest management and land-use planning while optimising resilience, carbon storage and the provision of environmental services.

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Diferencias en la evolución del paisaje entre dos municipios Prepirenaicos: Alquézar y Valle de Lierp, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Evaluation of forest cover change using remote sensing techniques and landscape metrics in Moncayo Natural Park (Spain)

Evaluation of forest cover change using remote sensing techniques and landscape metrics in Moncayo Natural Park (Spain)

Una revisión sobre las tierras abandonadas en España: de los paisajes locales a las estrategias globales de gestión

Land use/cover change analysis in the Mediterranean region: a regional case study of forest evolution in Castelló (Spain) over 50 years

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