Socioeconomic Indicators for the Evaluation and Monitoring of Climate Change in National Parks: An Analysis of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain)

López, Iván; Pardo, Mercedes

doi:10.3390/environments5020025

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“…Most of the habitats other than cereal fields are managed as pasturelands for extensive cattle breeding except in the case of pinewoods, which are mainly managed for timber production. Most highlands (over 1700 m a.s.l) of the Guadarrama Mountains were designated a National Park in 2013 (López and Pardo, 2018). The surrounding piedmont has been covered by an extensive network of buffer areas and reserves resulting from different EU directives (e.g., Natura 2000, Fig.…”

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“…Finally, it is interesting to comment on the utility and limitations of bioacoustic sampling (poor discrimination capacity for Rhinolophus hipposideros and Tadarida teniotis models; Loiselle et al, 2003;Buckman-Sewald et al, 2014) as a way to generate data to model bat distribution without the use of sometimes skewed information provided by museum and/or bibliographic records. We consider that the most obvious usefulness of this approach is the quick mapping of bat habitat suitability within the study areas (Rodr ıguez et al, 2007).…”

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Modelling the distribution of bat activity areas for conservation in a Mediterranean mountain range

Tena

Tellería

2021

Animal Conservation

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There is a lack of studies designed to detect the most important areas for bat conservation. In this context, areas of high bat activity have been rarely considered in the delimitation of protected areas for bats, which are generally focused on the protection of roosting sites. This has been due to the difficulties of sampling the distribution of these nocturnal animals when moving at night. This methodological constraint has been overcome by the development of bioacoustic sampling, which allows mapping the occurrence of active bats over large areas. In this study, we use bat detectors to sample the distribution of bat activity in central Spain. This region is under the environmental effects of a mountain range (Guadarrama Mountains) and the urban encroachment of the city of Madrid. The occurrences provided by the detectors were used to produce species distribution models of which the resulting layers were arranged to detect the most suitable areas for bat richness and rarity indices. We performed a gap analysis to explore whether the areas most commonly used by active bats are covered by the current network of protected areas. The results showed that the best areas of high bat activity are located at the piedmont of the mountains and that most of these areas overlap with the existing network of protected areas. The best areas for bats excluded the most urbanized areas and within a similar urban gradient, protected areas tended to be located within the best sites for conservation. These results suggest that bats currently benefit from a network of protected areas initially aimed to protect birds and habitats (Natura 2000). In addition, monitoring areas of high bat activity could complement roosting site protection in the conservation of bat assemblages.

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Modelling the distribution of bat activity areas for conservation in a Mediterranean mountain range

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Tellería

2021

Animal Conservation

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“…Moreover, since 2013, the upper parts have been included in the "Sierra de Guadarrama" National Park. As Madrid, with 5 million inhabitants, is less than 60 min away by car, tourism has gained importance as one of the most important sectors in the whole area [29].…”

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Representative Group Decision-Making in Forest Management: A Compromise Approach

Ortiz-Urbina

Dı́az-Balteiro

Pardos³

et al. 2022

Forests

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The correct aggregation of stakeholders’ preferences is a vital aspect of solving problems associated with natural resources. In fact, there is no one solution that permits the incorporation of those preferences into techniques that, in turn, address multiple objectives in the management of those resources. In this context, this work aims to assign, analyse, and compare the weights of importance to groups of stakeholders (representativity) starting from different approaches and methodologies: pairwise comparison matrices (using a subjective approach) and the voting power notion (when an objective approach is deployed). For the latter, a variant of the extended goal programming model is employed. The results show different weight values and, therefore, scenarios, in which the social groups defined acquire diverse importance. It is also observed that there are scenarios determined by different values of the control parameter, in which the results of the two above-mentioned approaches are similar. Finally, it is demonstrated how the affiliation of stakeholders to other social groups (different identities) affects the results obtained.

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“…Indeed, nowadays close attention is paid to aspects like biodiversity conservation. However, tourism has become one of the main economic sectors in the area with mass tourism becoming more visible in 2013, when the Sierra de Guadarrama was declared a national park [47]. The forest of Valsaín is just one hour by car from the city of Madrid (3,225,000 inhabitants) and only 20 min by car from the city of Segovia (150,000 inhabitants).…”

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Influence of Anthropogenic Noise for Predicting Cinereous Vulture Nest Distribution

2020

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Natural landscapes are increasingly under anthropogenic pressures, and concern about human impacts on wildlife populations is becoming particularly relevant in the case of natural areas affected by roads. The expansion of road networks is considered among the main factors threatening biodiversity due to their potential for disturbing natural ecosystems on large scales. Indeed, traffic noise pollution reduces the quantity and the quality of natural habitats, and umbrella species are frequently used as indicators of natural ecosystem health. In this sense, there is a variety of GIS-based ecological modeling tools that allow evaluation of the factors that influence species distributions in order to accurately predict habitat selection. In this study, we have combined the use of noise modeling tools and maximum entropy modeling (MaxEnt) to evaluate the relative importance of environmental variables for Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) nesting habitat selection within a mountainous forest in Spain. As a result, we found that spatial negative influence of roads on wildlife due to road traffic disturbance may have been traditionally overestimated when it has been inferred from distance measurements of wildlife behavior in road surroundings instead of from considering road traffic noise level exposure. In addition, we found a potential risk threshold for cinereous vulture breeding around roads, which ties in with a Leq24h level of 40 dB(A). This may be a useful indicator for assessing the potential impact of human activities on an umbrella species such as, for instance, the cinereous vulture, whose breeding does not take place where road traffic Leq24h levels are higher than 40 dB(A).

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Socioeconomic Indicators for the Evaluation and Monitoring of Climate Change in National Parks: An Analysis of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain)

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Modelling the distribution of bat activity areas for conservation in a Mediterranean mountain range

Modelling the distribution of bat activity areas for conservation in a Mediterranean mountain range

Representative Group Decision-Making in Forest Management: A Compromise Approach

Influence of Anthropogenic Noise for Predicting Cinereous Vulture Nest Distribution

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