Effects of prospective landscape changes on species viability in Segre River valley, NE Spain

Franz, Kamila W.; Romanowski, Jerzy; Saavedra, Deli

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.011

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“…The current situation in our study area provides suitable conditions for most generalist species, but not for specialist species, what confirms the results of a similar study [32]. Further spread of settlement and high intensity of agricultural use would negatively impact all investigated species.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…For the assessment of the population viability of the selected species, LARCH (Landscape ecological Analysis and Rules for the Configuration of Habitat) was used. LARCH has been developed to assess the potential biodiversity in the landscape [21,31] and has been used for impact assessments of land changes [32][33][34], planning of ecological networks and corridors [18,31], and in studies assessing potential impacts of climate change to species viability [35,36].…”

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Effects of Landscape Changes on Species Viability: A Case Study from Northern Slovakia

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Pouwels²,

Růžičková

et al. 2018

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Urbanization, increasing road networks, agricultural intensification, and land abandonment are widespread land change processes found in most European landscapes. As land changes affect animal species and their populations, there is a need to evaluate the effects of future developments on the viability of protected species. In this paper, we model population size and viability of selected indicator species for a selected area in Slovakia. Our results indicate that selected species are viable in the current landscape composition. However, the expected spread of settlement and the increase of road density in this area would likely lead to decline and loss of viability of species. Similarly, continuous land abandonment followed with spontaneous reforestation would likely trigger a decline of grassland species. In contrast, developing a biocorridor and restoration of existing green elements as modeled in our conservation scenario would strongly improve the viability of all species and avoid the impact of the expected developments. Our results underline the actions that prevent further loss of biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes and, thus, have particular importance for landscape planning and decision-making processes.

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Effects of Landscape Changes on Species Viability: A Case Study from Northern Slovakia

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Pouwels²,

Růžičková

et al. 2018

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“…This assessment is supported by studies comparing the outputs of different land uses related to our alternatives in Spain (Bruno et al, 2021;Castro et al, 2015;Franz et al, 2011;Varga, 2020;Vidal-Legaz et al, 2013), and the assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services shown above.…”

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“…some species(Beckmann et al, 2018) in certain landscape configurations(Franz et al, 2011;Varga, 2020; but seeLopez & Pardo, 2018 for the negative impacts on biodiversity of ecotourism and outdoor activities). At the same time, this alternative would promote economic activity favouring the maintenance of the human population, and even its increase(Caceres-Feria et al, 2021;Hospers & Reverda, 2015).…”

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An ecological perspective for analysing rural depopulation and abandonment

Lloret,

Escudero,

Lloret

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Population loss in rural areas is rapidly increasing in high‐income countries, raising concerns and debate, given its socio‐economic consequences. Despite the evident environmental dimension of the phenomenon, ecological knowledge has been neglected in the analysis of actions aiming to reverse rural depopulation. Particularly, cultural landscapes reflect memories of ecological processes that have configured current patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Based on ecological principles, we present a conceptual procedure to assess the behaviour of social–ecological systems subjected to depopulation, projecting their expected trajectories through time within a framework defined jointly by demographic and environmental–ecological dimensions (in our case, biodiversity, carbon storage, pollution control, water resources and soil conservation). We applied this procedure to various alternative interventions designed to confront depopulation in Spain: (1) non‐intervention, (2) maintenance of the historical landscape configuration, (3) active conservation, (4) extensive, sustainable land use and (5) intensified land use. We conclude that extensive, sustainable land use better optimizes criteria of demographic consolidation, environmental impact, resilience and implementation of actions confronting depopulation. We highlight the need to incorporate ecological knowledge into the assessment and application of actions confronting rural depopulation. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…Meanwhile new socio-economic functions don't appear. Ecosystems succession may be considered as a function of nature conservation, but in Central Mescera lowland, like in many places worldwide, (Franz, Romanowski, Saavedra 2011, Uematsu et. al.…”

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Destructive Evolution of Postmeliorated Landscapes of Central Meschera

Kharitonova¹

2011

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Effects of prospective landscape changes on species viability in Segre River valley, NE Spain

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Effects of Landscape Changes on Species Viability: A Case Study from Northern Slovakia

Effects of Landscape Changes on Species Viability: A Case Study from Northern Slovakia

An ecological perspective for analysing rural depopulation and abandonment

Destructive Evolution of Postmeliorated Landscapes of Central Meschera

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