
Elena Velado AlonsoWageningen University & Research | WUR · Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Elena Velado Alonso
PhD
Postdoc at InterRest project, Plant Ecology & Nature Conservation group+Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology group
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Calcareous grasslands are one of the most species-rich habitats in Europe but are often fragmented and highly degraded because of agricultural intensification and the abandonment of traditional livestock farming. This leads to loss of biodiversity together with the degradation of ecosystem services, such as predation. In this study, we determined h...
Perennial woody crops, which are crucial to our diets and global
economies, have the potential to play a major role in achieving multiple UN
Sustainable Development Goals pertaining to biodiversity conservation,
socio-economic development and climate change mitigation. However,
this potential is hindered by insufficient scientific and policy attent...
After centuries as a flagship economic activity, pastoralism in Spain is today in danger of collapse due to the simultaneous processes of abandonment and industrialisation. With a consensus on the need to revert this decline, a characterisation of pastoralism is needed in the design of an efficient framework for action. Through a participatory proc...
Despite increasing recognition of the importance of the multiple dimensions of biodiversity, including functional or genetic diversity as well as species diversity, most conservation studies on ecosystem service‐providing insects focus on simple diversity measures such as species richness and abundance. In contrast, relatively little is known about...
Farmers' pro-environmental action is substantially influenced by various stakeholders from their business and social environment. Recent studies recommend actively involving influential stakeholders in agri-environmental initiatives, information or media campaigns. While it has been argued that farmers' perceptions towards these stakeholders can he...
Farmers play a pivotal role in addressing biodiversity loss whilst maintaining food production. To rethink conservation in agricultural landscapes, it is crucial to understand their decisions regarding biodiversity and its management on the farms. In this study, we conducted 48 semi-structured interviews across ten European countries in 2021/22 to...
Abundant and diverse floral resources are needed for the preservation of pollinator populations and the services they provide to human societies. However, pollinators are negatively affected by several agricultural practices, among which pesticide use and ‘weed’ removal stand out.
McDougall et al. (2021) published a paper titled ‘Managing orchard g...
Communication and dissemination are key elements to maximise SHOWCASE project impact and ensure long‐term effects. For that, an effective communication strategy is essential to convey the principles and best practices to integrate biodiversity in farm management to favour farmers’ livelihoods while promoting conservation in agricultural landscapes....
The declaration of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2020‐2030 has established the need to focus on human rights in restoration initiatives, including gender equality. Although this goal raises a need to monitor gender biases on ecosystem restoration, we still lack basic gender information and evaluations on the current situation....
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Domesticated animals play a central role in agricultural landscapes. However, livestock has been scarcely studied from a spatial perspective. Mapping of livestock diversity has been limited by the lack of distribution and demography data. This shortfall limits both the reach of actions aimed to conserve threatened breeds and their considera...
There is an increasing interest in assessing livestock breed contributions to ecosystem services (ES) and including this knowledge in decision making. However, this task has been limited due to the complexity of the multidimensional relationship between livestock diversity and ecosystem services. In this work, we elaborate on the livestock breed ch...
The next reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2021-
2027 (currently extended to 2023-2030) requires the approval by the European Commission of a
Strategic Plan with environmental objectives for each Member State. Here we use the best available
scientific evidence on the relationships between agricultural practices and bi...
Native livestock breeds, i.e. those autochthonous to a specific region, are locally adapted domesticated animals that conserve genetic resources, guaranty food security and provide agroecosystem services. Native breeds are largely threatened worldwide by agricultural intensification and rural areas abandonment processes related to recent changes in...
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Wild biodiversity and agrobiodiversity are affected by challenges such as agricultural intensification. However, it is unknown whether or not both components of biodiversity respond similarly to environmental factors and to these challenges. Here, we examine the spatial relationships between the distributions of wild biodiversity and agrobiodiv...
A multi-dimensional approach is proposed to evaluate the changes in transhumance systems associated to natural resources management in León (Cantabrian mountain, Spain), in order to know their sustainability status. This evaluative model focuses on the production system, owing to the fact that agroecosys-tem sustainability depends on the ecological...
En el presente trabajo se ensaya una metodología para el análisis de los paisajes agrarios (los agroecosistemas que los mantienen) investigando por separado la información relativa a diferentes conceptos. El modelo supone una interacción entre grupos de estratos o capas, de cuyo resultado depende la calidad y tendencia de los servicios para la soci...
En el trabajo se analizan tres tipos de sistemas ganaderos que utilizan hoy en día los “puertos de merinas”, evaluando la gestión técnico-productiva y sus los efectos sobre el paisaje. La información procede de entrevistas en profundidad a una muestra de escasos ganaderos de merinas que aún acceden a los puertos.