Los bancales en la agricultura de la montaña mediterránea: una revisión bibliográfica

Rodríguez-Aizpeolea, J.; Lasanta-Martínez, T.

doi:10.3989/pirineos.1992.v139.184

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“…Some abandoned fields and hillslopes have been either reforested or are being used for extensive cattle grazing. In short, the physical environment and social conditions in the area have been profoundly modified, reflecting a widespread development throughout the mountain regions in Spain and other Mediterranean countries (Rodriguez-Aizpeolea and Lasanta 1992).…”

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Marginal Lands and Erosion in Terraced Fields in the Mediterranean Mountains

Lasanta¹,

Vadillo²,

Oserin³

et al. 2001

Mountain Research and Development

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Marginal Lands and Erosion in Terraced Fields in the Mediterranean Mountains

Lasanta¹,

Vadillo²,

Oserin³

et al. 2001

Mountain Research and Development

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“…However, human dependence on local hydrological and agricultural issues is more important in the former country. Thus, semiarid areas in North Morocco face increasing human pressure, and conversion of forest and woodland areas to agricultural lands is common (Al Karkouri et al, 2006), whereas abandonment of agricultural land is the dominant process in the northern rim of the Mediterranean basin (Rodríguez-Aizpeolea and Lasanta-Martínez, 1992).…”

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Similarities in stakeholder identification of restoration targets in a semiarid area

Derak

Taiquib

Aledoc

et al. 2016

Journal of Arid Environments

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Ecological restoration is a suitable tool to revert the decline in the provision of ecosystem services in semiarid areas. Stakeholder opinion has been increasingly incorporated in ecological restoration strategies. However, the debate still exists whether the opinion of scientists and managers should be integrated together with that of local stakeholders in the decision making process. We assessed the restoration priorities in a semiarid area in North Morocco according to the opinion of 67 stakeholders, including scientists and managers, direct users and collaborators. The questions consisted in (i) ranking five categories of services in addition to economic benefits, and in (ii) comparing pairs of services within each category. We checked for both cardinal and ordinal inconsistency. The results showed an overall consensus about regulating and supporting services as the most valuable categories. More specifically, the most important services were erosion and flood control, soil fertility, water supply and species richness. The accuracy of the responses of the three groups was similar as the consistency for their judgments was not significantly different. Our results bring additional proof that the opinion of scientists, managers and local stakeholders should be considered of similar interest and accuracy when defining the most suitable restoration objectives.

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“…In dry and semiarid Mediterranean areas, the ecological status of agricultural land abandoned after exploitation for centuries has been profoundly altered in comparison to wooded territories (Lasanta, 1989;Rodríguez-Aizpeolea and Lasanta, 1992;Rodríguez-Aizpeolea et al, 1991). Plant colonization and succession processes are extremely slow, and in some cases incapable of mitigating erosion (Esteve et al, 1990;Francis, 1990;Lasanta et al, 1995;Sánchez-López, 1995).…”

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Vegetation response to conditions caused by different soil‐preparation techniques applied to afforestation in semiarid abandoned farmland

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Twelve soil-preparation techniques used in afforestation were applied and 16 environmental variables were measured to test their effects on vegetation abundance, diversity, and cover in semiarid abandoned farmland located in southeastern Spain. The soil-preparation techniques consisted of punctual treatments-making a hole and constructing a plantation bench with different types of machinery; linear treatments-making furrows along contour lines; and surface treatments-that prepare the soil in general all over the plantation surface. Variables measured were the surface and volume affected by the soil-preparation treatments, distance from sample quadrats to the remnants of natural vegetation, surface runoff estimated by slope angle, and some edaphic characteristics such as gravel content, active lime, CaCO 3 , phosphorus, oxidizable organic matter, total soil nitrogen, pH, potassium, salinity, and clay, silt and sand content. The multivariate contrasts obtained demonstrated the existence of a significant relationship between species, samples and environmental variables. Both the distance of the quadrats from the remnants of natural vegetation and the volume of soil removed in different treatments were very weighty variables in the explanation of the variance of data, negatively affecting overall vegetation development. The accumulation or loss of surface runoff and the CaCO 3 content in soil were also important variables to explain abundance and diversity data. However, not all the species responded to the variables analysed in the same way. Identification of non-uniform spatial patterns that significantly affect vegetation suggests that afforestation policies and conservation and management strategies in these semiarid abandoned lands should always take into consideration the quality of the whole landscape. Voluminous soil treatments for afforestation should be avoided.

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Los bancales en la agricultura de la montaña mediterránea: una revisión bibliográfica

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Marginal Lands and Erosion in Terraced Fields in the Mediterranean Mountains

Marginal Lands and Erosion in Terraced Fields in the Mediterranean Mountains

Similarities in stakeholder identification of restoration targets in a semiarid area

Vegetation response to conditions caused by different soil‐preparation techniques applied to afforestation in semiarid abandoned farmland

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