
Diego Ruiz-LabourdetteComplutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution
Diego Ruiz-Labourdette
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Expert on the areas of biogeography, climate change, and protected areas
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As most of Europe’s metropolitan landscapes grow, a change is occurring in their surrounding rural environment. The consequences thereof mainly involve losses of traditional land uses and changes in the socioecomic structures of the local population. The lack of coupling ‘urban society-countryside’ can be considered to constitute a driving force of...
The Spanish National Ecosystem Assessment (SNEA), supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Environment, is the first analysis conducted on the status and trends of ecosystem services in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of Spain. The results of the SNEA are expected to help build bridges between interdisciplinary scientific know...
Protected natural areas have traditionally played an important role in tourist destinations. There are over one hundred thousand of these areas throughout the world and to date, their landscapes and biodiversity have constituted the main factor attracting visitors. Although these components have not lost their power to attract, many tourist destina...
Since the end of the last glacial period, European Mediterranean mountains have provided shelter for numerous species of Eurosiberian and Boreal origin. Many of these species, surviving at the southern limit of their range in Europe and surrounded by Mediterranean ones, are relatively intolerant to summer drought and are in grave danger of loss, as...
Since the last glacial–interglacial cycles, Mediterranean mountains in Southern Europe have constituted the southern refuge of numerous species of Eurosiberian and Boreal origin. Some vestiges of European Tertiary flora have also remained in this area. These mountains present one of the continent's highest plant diversity indices deriving from thei...
Specific land uses, many of them considered as traditional practices, have contributed to nature conservation in that they have given rise to a valued landscape and a high degree of biological and cultural diversity. The result is the rural cultural landscape, also characterised by its multi-functionality, stability and adaptation to local conditio...
Aim Species distribution models have been used frequently to assess the effects of climate change on mountain biodiversity. However, the value and accuracy of these assessments have been hampered by the use of low‐resolution data for species distributions and climatic conditions. Herein we assess potential changes in the distribution and community...
The concept of ecological landscape should be considered from a holistic perspective based on consideration of the hierarchical structure of the landscape levels. Many methods of landscape classification and evaluation are based on this reference system, which enables landscape units to be differentiated, these being structured in a hierarchical an...
La biodiversidad es esencial para la supervivencia del ser humano en la Tierra. Del buen funcionamiento de los ecosistemas acuáticos y terrestres españoles y de la biodiversidad que albergan, depende en buena medida el futuro social, cultural y económico de la población, ya que constituyen el capital natural de nuestro país. El bienestar humano en...
Mediterranean mountains harbour some of Europe's highest floristic richness. This is accounted for largely by the mesoclimatic variety in these areas, along with the co-occurrence of a small area of Eurosiberian, Boreal and Mediterranean species, and those of Tertiary Subtropical origin. Throughout the twenty-first century, we are likely to witness...
The Madrid Regional Government (Central Spain) proposes a zone of the Guadarrama Mountains to be declared as a National Park.
This paper reports on the zoning method developed to this end. The procedure followed considers compatibility of land uses
with landscape characteristics and proposes protecting a part of the zone through declaration of Nati...
Previous research has described and mapped the ‘visitor-landscape’
correspondence in terms of ‘demand’ and ‘offer’. The relationship between the
landscape and the socio-economic structure of the local population has also been
studied, enabling us to create scenarios of change. Other relationships are being
studied in order to provide an understandi...
Tourism constitutes a crucial part of the economy of the Canary Isles (Spain). Nonetheless, the potential of this activity with regard to its ‘ecological’ and ‘cultural’ facets has not yet been sufficiently addressed. These perspectives could lead the industry towards a model of sustainability that is as yet lacking in Spain’s usual concept of tour...
Tourism constitutes an important factor among those influencing sociocultural
change in populations, particularly when these inhabit tourist destinations.
Among the multiple components of the tourism system, the processes of
selection, design and implementation of the ‘constructed image’ are highly
valuable with regard to studying the significance...
Previous research has described and mapped the ‘visitor-landscape’ correspondence in terms of 'demand' and 'offer'. The relationship between landscape and socio-economic structure of the local population has also been studied, enabling us to create scenarios of change. Other relationships are being studied in order to provide an understanding both...
Tourism constitutes an important factor among those influencing sociocultural change in populations, particularly when these inhabit tourist destinations. Among the multiple components of the tourism system, the processes of selection, design and implementation of the ‘constructed image’ are highly valuable with regard to studying the significance...
Providing a natural area with protection status involves many types of
considerations and interests. Among these are criteria of an ecological,
naturalistic, aesthetic, cultural and educational nature. The precise layout of these
spaces also brings political standpoints into play, which are often at loggerheads
with the recommendations for the appl...
Formaciones palustres de los mantos eólicos y la flecha litoral de El Abalario-Doñana sobre mosaico de imágenes de satélite Spot (1995) corregidas (Proyección UTM, Huso 29, EIH-DE 1950.