“…The MARIOLA model (Mateu, Usó and Montes, 1998;Usó-Domènech, Villacampa, Stübing, Karjalainen and Ramo, 1995;Usó-Domènech, Mateu and Lopez, 2000; Usó-Doménech, Nescolarde-Selva, Lloret-Climent and Meng, 2016. ), so called for having taken as the base the mountainous terrestrial ecosystem of the Sierra de Mariola (Alicante, Spain), is a dynamic model based on System Dynamics (Forrester, 1961), in which differential equations (state equations) are set up hypothetically, and flow variables are obtained from field observations using multiple regression equations (Cortés, Villacampa, Mateu and Usó-Doménech, 2000; Nescolarde-Selva, Usó-Doménech, Lloret-Climent,. and González-Franco, 2015;Lopez, 1997, 2000;Usó-Doménech, Nescolarde-Selva, Lloret-Climent and Meng, 2016).…”