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- Subject in Agricultural and Forestry Engineering Studies: - Projects and Planning - Environmental Impact Assessment - Land Tenure and Management Masters: - Engineering for Rural Development - Landscape Architecture Other: - Geographic Information System courses
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The European Commission promotes the inclusion of green infrastructure (GI) in spatial planning across member states. For strategic GI planning to be effective and ensure long-term sustainability and functionality, it must involve collaboration among relevant actors at all governance levels. However, less attention has been given to the required to...
Introduction
The European chestnut ( Castanea sativa Mill.) is a historically and ecologically important tree in the Iberian Peninsula. The species now faces challenges related to the abandonment of traditional management practices, and climate change, although the potential impact of the later on chestnut potential range remains unexplored.
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Chestnut orchards (soutos in the Galician language) constitute the main feature of socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs) characteristic to the Northwest Iberian Peninsula. These landscapes display high levels of biodiversity that are shown in the genetic, interspecific, and ecosystem domains. They also produce a variety of ecosystem servic...
In response to the constant loss of biodiversity in European ecosystems, which is partly due to the impacts of climate change, the European Commission urges member states to include Green Infrastructure (GI) in their land-use plans. However, although the European Commission establishes the fundamental principles to be applied, the ambiguity of some...
Forests are key components of European multifunctional landscapes and supply numerous forest ecosystem services (FES) fundamental to human well-being. The sustainable provision of FES has the potential to provide responses to major societal challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or rural development. To identify suitable strategies...
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Cork oak agroforestry systems (AFS) have been managed for centuries by humans to produce cork and other goods and services and have recently been recognised as an important reservoir for biodiversity improvement and conservation. However, despite having recently been included as a natural habitat of community-wide interest within the EU...
In bears, reproduction is dependent on the body reserves accumulated during hyperphagia. The Cantabrian brown bear mainly feeds on nuts during the hyperphagia period. Understanding how landscape heterogeneity and vegetation productivity in human-dominated landscapes influence the feeding habits of bears may therefore be important for disentangling...
Transformative change involves the integration of different social dimensions and the involvement of a multiplicity of actors resulting in high levels of complexity. Considering all this, our work addresses the development of green infrastructure (GI) to improve the conservation of biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services from two diffe...
Galician communal forests are private lands collectively owned by the neighbours of the rural settlement where they are located. Their societal role shifted from the support of the traditional agrarian system in the past, to a variety of situations nowadays. The intrinsic characteristics of these social-ecological units make them a promising opport...
Sweet chestnut agroforestry systems make valuable contributions to the landscape and environment, fulfilling fundamental functions and processes. Net primary production (NPP) and carbon use efficiency (CUE) are commonly used as ecological indicators to evaluate the responses of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change. Nonetheless, although c...
Dear Colleagues, The general aim of this Special Issue is to address the role played by patterns and processes of forest ecosystems in the provision of goods and services. How multiple ecosystem services and related values are acknowledged, appropriated, or delivered to society is strongly related to their spatial patterns of distribution and the e...
Urban systems and human settlements have been growing exponentially in size and complexity in the last decades, defying current approaches to sustainable development. While urban planning has been identified as one of the main tools for attaining specific sustainability goals, consideration of cities as complex social-ecological and adaptive system...
Changes in land and sea uses are the major drivers of
global biodiversity loss (IPBES 2019). To halt biodiversity
loss caused by impacts from unsustainable land/sea
use practices, it is first necessary to recognise that there
are multiple actors who influence the way landscapes or
seascapes are used, managed and governed. The priorities
of these mu...
O castiñeiro e unha especie fortemente arraigada na paisaxe tradicional e na cultura galega, moi querida e moi estimada polos labregos onde foi un elemento fundamental no tecido agroforestal galego. Neste medio medrou desafiando a eternidade como auténticos monumentos viventes, conformando a súa esencia coma a dunha divindade mitolóxica que pervive...
Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS) frequently illustrate potential synergies between socioeconomic development, multifunctional use of land, preservation of traditional knowledge, enhancement of ecosystem services and the conservation of biodiversity. As such, efforts for the conservation and enhancement of SEPLS can be co...
Aim of study: Agroforestry systems of Castanea sativa have specific forest structures, which are different from other ecosystems of sweet chestnut. They have provided several ecosystems services (ES) to local inhabitants for centuries including relevant pastoral use. However on present times, have isolated distribution ranges and declining trends....
Sustainable production of wood is one of the main services provided by forest systems. Site productivity in the case of forests is often evaluated through the site quality. However, most of the works addressing the site quality have been done at local or regional scale. In this work, we aim to develop site quality models for five dominant species i...
The implementation of the Ecosystem Services (ES) framework (including supply and demand) should be based on accurate spatial assessments to make it useful for land planning or environmental management. Despite the inherent dependence of ES assessments on the spatial resolution at which they are conducted, the studies analyzing these effects on ES...
Areas of Quaternary refugia for tree species have been mainly delineated based on fossil records and phylogeography, but niche modelling can provide useful complementary information. Here we use palaeodistribution modelling to test the main hypotheses about the distribution of Castanea sativa in the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the mid-Holocene i...
Coastal urbanization dynamics in the Algarve are intimately related with
tourism, which dominates the regional economy. We present part of
the results of a research project in the coastal landscapes of Algarve,
focusing on land use and land change, particularly urban sprawl around
Faro, one of the highest concentrations of tourism resorts in the re...
The main objective of this work was to analyse how increased harvesting for bioenergy production might affect other Ecosystem Services (ES) in two Norwegian municipalities (Ringsaker and Voss). The aim was to identify locations where synergies or conflicts between ES could be expected. The spatial distribution of eight different ES (3 provision, 3...
A clear link between ecosystem services (ES) and human well-being has been established in the recent decades. Thus, forests are recognised as extremely important ecosystems in relation to their capacity to provide goods and services to society. Nevertheless, this capacity greatly depends on the type of forest and on the management applied. Some typ...
Understanding landscapeheterogeneity is essentialfordeveloping reliable landscapeplanning anddesign
methods. Nevertheless, despite the many advances made in recent years regarding the analysis of landscape
heterogeneity, methods that produce useful results that can be applied to design, planning and
management schemes are still required. In this st...
Planning practices performed by non-governmental actors are often not considered as part the spatial planning domain. Spatial planning is generally associated with governmental activity: coordination that is aimed at a formal regulation of land uses and distribution of public goods. Nevertheless, the influence of other actors, like communities, is...
Communal forests or Montes Vecinales en Mano Común (MVMC) are a type of private collective land in Galicia (northwest Spain) representing approximately one-third of its forest land. There has been a series of changes in MVMC ownership and management throughout the 20th century. Uncertainty about ownership, changes in population and the presence of...
The importance of urban growth processes and their spatial characteristics has led to a growing interest
in monitoring these phenomena. Spatial metrics are widely employed for this purpose, appearing in an
increasing number of studies where they are used to characterise growth patterns and their evolution
over time. This paper presents an analysis...
Ecosystem services research has become important in fields such as ecology and land planning in recent years. Several authors have emphasized the need to evaluate these services from a spatial perspective. The spatial distribution of the resources and processes that provide ecosystems have also been considered in relation to landscape. Because ecos...
Landscapes in Mediterranean and Atlantic basins are closely linked to cultural activities. They have been shaped by anthropogenic influences through centuries, co-evolving with the socio-economic systems which constitute their basis. Due to this critical human dimension, an integrative approach towards the identification of the services provided by...
Ungulate-vehicle collisions pose a serious traffic safety hazard in the North of Spain. The understanding of underlying temporal and spatial structure of these non-random events is imperative to develop appropriate mitigation measures. This study analyses the temporal, spatial and spatiotemporal patterns of car crashes involving wild boar and roe d...
The analysis of landscape heterogeneity is a useful tool in classification and mapping processes, and delineation of landscape planning units. Habitually, definition of the level of landscape heterogeneity and its spatial distribution at a number of scales use diversity indices derived from Information Theory (Shannon, Simpson…). Despite their unde...
RESUMEN El estado de la cuestión en relación con los corredores y la conectividad ecológica es analizado en este capítulo desde la perspectiva de la ecología del paisaje. Esta disciplina, centrada en el conocimiento profundo del funcionamiento del paisaje a distintas escalas, proporciona un marco científico muy adecuado como punto de partida para e...
The exceptional geomophological and ecological characteristics in Despeñaperros, together with its location among two different territorial units make it an interesting study case in the field of ecological connectivity. This paper starts such study with a review of the main historical anthropogenic activities, including cultural and perceptual com...
The management of natural resources can be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to achieve sustainable development. There are regional differences in practical approaches to biodiversity conflict management because the social, political and economic characteristics of a culture influence the type of conflicts and the response to...
The growth and nutritional status of 97 hybrid chestnut plantations on former agricultural land and forest land were studied in relation to site conditions (climatic variables and soil properties). A single family of curves was obtained for classifying the early height growth of hybrid and sweet chestnut. Soil limitations and nutrient deficiencies...
This paper addresses the identification of areas where wildlife–vehicle collisions mitigation measures can be adopted by the study of collision records for specific road sections on the regional road network in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Northwest Spain in 2006–2007. Accident concentration sections, or areas where wildlife–vehicle collisions ar...
Chestnut woods are outstanding elements of European cultural landscapes, and are also recognised as habitats of interest in the Natura 2000 European network of protected areas. Despite their importance, they are threatened by land abandonment and recent rural landscape changes. The loss of Castanea sativa cover and its dominance as a characteristic...
La sostenibilidad de las explotaciones forestales requiere el desarrollo de medidas políticas que hagan más productiva la actividad forestal y agrícola analizando la percepción socioeconómica y el valor de los productos que obtienen los gestores. El trabajo parte de la discusión sobre las recientes restricciones relativas a la sostenibilidad de las...
Sustaining the viability and continuity of farm forest holdings requires developing policy measures that improve or advance its forest and agrarian productivity regarding the socioeconomic perceptions and values of its managers. As a previous work and discussion of recent constraints related to sustainable forest practices by individual private for...
Communal forests, or Montes Veciñais en Man Común (MVMC), are a specific form of communal land tenure and a singular legal category in Galicia. The growing demographic decline in rural areas and, particularly, in inner areas of Galicia has led to a decrease in the economic interest of forest resources. The complexity of the different management mod...
Rasterization (i.e. vector-to-raster conversion) is a common process in Geographic Information Systems. As it implies redistribution of map information, it is important to know how much data is lost when a particular resolution is chosen in order to use data successfully. This study explores the potential of landscape metrics to reflect sensitivity...
Agricultural activity involves direct interaction with the physical environment factors in the environmental context in which the activity is developed. Galicia, northwest Spain, is an environmentally heterogeneous region that encompasses territorial spaces with different levels of suitability for each agricultural activity. In barely 30 years, the...
It is widely recognized that there is no single scale at which a landscape or ecosystem should be studied, and forest planning and management require the definition of homogeneous units whose characteristics depend strongly on the scale at which their spatial arrangement occurs. Such "characteristic scales" range from fine to coarse, especially whe...
Communal forests, or Montes Veciñais en Man Común (MVMC), are a specific form of communal land tenure and a singular legal category in Galicia. The growing demographic decline in rural areas and, particularly, in inner areas of Galicia has led to a decrease in the economic interest of forest resources. The complexity of the different management mod...
In this paper, a methodology for the classification of farms into different, representative farm types is presented. This methodology improves a combinatorial method developed in our previous research that was limited to the region of Galicia, Spain. Agricultural census microdata was used as the only source of information, particularly the 1999 cen...
• The use of landscape indices in the analysis of forest landscapes offers great potential for integration of spatial pattern information in management processes, but requires understanding of the limitations and correct interpretation of results. In this sense, awareness of scale effects on landscape indices is essential, especially when the data...
The success of landscape planning and environmental management strategies depends largely on the congruence between the operational
scales of landscapes and the spatial scope of the planning instruments. In order to achieve good results, landscape planning
units should be designed to fit the structural and functional characteristics of the landscap...
La sostenibilidad territorial es un objetivo esencial para las áreas rurales para garantizar que, en etapas de fuertes cambios territoriales como la actual, se produzca una transición adecuada en terminos económicos, sociales y ecológicos. Para el seguimiento y evaluación del grado de sostenibilidad territorial, han de ser utilizados indicadores ad...
The success of landscape planning and environmental management strategies depends largely on the congruence between the operational scales of landscapes and the spatial scope of the planning instruments. In order to achieve good results, landscape planning units should be designed to fit the structural and functional characteristics of the landscap...
Development in recent years of new trends in forestry planning - in the framework of Sustainable Forestry Planning - has acknowledged the need to widen the scope of action to one with multiple scales or functional levels in forestry areas. It also required from the compatibilization of different objectives of forestry production, corresponding with...
Developement in recent years of new trends in forestry planning - in the framework of Sustainable Forestry Planning - has acknowledged the need to widen the scope of action to one with multiple scales or functional levels in forestry areas. It also required from the compatibilization of different objectives of forestry production, corresponding wit...
Scale issues and landscape pattern analysis are mentioned among the main important issues in the present and future development of Landscape Ecology (Hobbs, 1997; Bastian, 2001; Wu & Hobbs, 2002), which can be also be specified for Forest Landscape Ecology. The importance of scale issues can be seen, for instance, in the need of accurate and meanin...
Development in recent years of new trends in forestry planning - in the framework of Sustainable Forestry Planning - has acknowledged the need to widen the scope of action to one with multiple scales or functional levels in forestry areas. It also required from the compatibilization of different objectives of forestry production, corresponding with...
