Threatened plants of arid ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study of the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula

Mendoza-Fernández, Antonio J.; Pérez-García, Francisco J.; Martínez-Hernández, Fabián; Medina-Cazorla, José Miguel; Garrido-Becerra, Juan Antonio; Merlo, Encarna; Romero, José Santiago Guirado; Poveda, Juan Francisco Mota

doi:10.1017/s0030605313000495

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“…Nevertheless, the disjoint and geographically scattered location of most of that unprotected area makes it challenging to endow it some legal and, especially, managerial protection regime. Our results are in accordance with a number of studies that show insufficient representation of threatened species in PAs globally (Gaston et al 2008, Bhola et al 2016, across Spain (Muñoz-Rodríguez et al 2016) and in southeastern Andalusia (Mendoza-Fernández et al 2014).…”

Section: Representation Of Threatened Biodiversity In the Regional Pasupporting

confidence: 93%

Representation and protection of threatened biodiversity by the largest Spanish regional network of protected areas

Rodríguez‐Rodríguez¹,

Martínez‐Vega²

2018

Endang. Species. Res.

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The main global strategy to stop biodiversity loss is the designation of protected areas (PAs). Spain is a highly biodiverse country. It has one of the world's greatest terrestrial PA coverages. However, the status of its biodiversity is delicate as a result of serious pressures, and some important areas for biodiversity are outside PAs. We used official census data to spatially assess how 71 habitats of community interest (HCIs), 126 regionally threatened flora, fauna and fungi species and subspecies (RTSs), and 33 globally threatened species or subspecies (GTSs) are represented in a network of 404 PAs in Andalusia, a region rich in biodiversity in southern Spain. We also assessed the legal and managerial protection afforded to these threatened habitats and species by those PAs. The Andalusian PA network expands across one-third of the region's territory and includes the threatened species' richest areas. However, it only covers 57% of the area of occupancy of RTSs, 81% of the regional area of occupancy of GTSs, and 53% of the extent of HCIs. Over 61% of the regional PA network area is assigned more than 1 PA designation category, although cumulative legal protection is marginally related to RTS richness and unrelated to GTS richness. RTSs and especially GTSs occupy the most relative area in Ramsar sites (i.e. wetlands of international importance), although these are of relatively minor importance for threatened habitats. Wetlands and agricultural areas are the broad ecosystem types showing the greatest numbers of RTSs and GTSs. Seven GTSs were not included in the Andalusian Register of Threatened Species. One hundred and eleven unprotected Areas of High Importance for Threatened Species (AHITSs) and one Area of High Importance for Threatened Biodiversity (AHITB) were identified. Those species and sites are good candidates for a targeted expansion of legal protection of biodiversity in the region.

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Section: Representation Of Threatened Biodiversity In the Regional Pasupporting

confidence: 93%

Representation and protection of threatened biodiversity by the largest Spanish regional network of protected areas

Rodríguez‐Rodríguez¹,

Martínez‐Vega²

2018

Endang. Species. Res.

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“…Some Italian gypsum outcrops are currently under protection, but other areas have not yet been included in the network of nature reserves. As Panuccio et al (2017) and Spampinato et al (2018) pointed out for Calabria (South-Italy) and Mendoza-Fernández et al (2014) for Andalusia (southern Spain), arid or semi-arid territories are often under-represented in protected area networks. This is the case for most Italian gypsum sites.…”

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Checklist of gypsophilous vascular flora in Italy

Musarella¹,

Mendoza-Fernández²,

Poveda³

et al. 2018

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Our understanding of the richness and uniqueness of the flora growing on gypsum substrates in Italy has grown significantly since the 19th century and, even today, new plant species are still being discovered. However, the plants and plant communities, growing on gypsum substrates in Italy, are still a relatively unknown subject.The main aim of this paper was to elaborate a checklist of the Italian gypsophilous flora, to increase knowledge about this peculiar flora and for which conservation efforts need to be addressed.Through a structured group communication process of experts (application of the Delphi technique), a remarkable number of experienced Italian botanists have joined together to select focal plant species linked to gypsum substrates. From the results obtained, 31 plant species behave as absolute or preferent taxa (gypsophytes and gypsoclines) and form the ‘core’ Italian gypsophilous flora. The most abundant life forms were chamaephytes and hemicryptophytes, belonging to Poaceae and Brassicaceae; as for chorotypes, the most represented are Mediterranean and narrow endemics. By improving on previously available information about the flora with a clear preference for gypsum in Italy, this undertaking represents an important contribution to the knowledge of a habitat which is today considered a priority for conservation.

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“…The peaks of Sierra Nevada cause humid air arriving from Guadalquivir Valley to rise, and when the humidity is high enough, rain will fall. When this mountain is left behind, the air temperature increases, humidity falls, and rainfall is scarce, thus creating the Tabernas Desert (in Almería) [53]. As a result, riverside vegetation is greater in Almería while gallery forests are more abundant in Granada.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Differences between Two Neighboring Regions of Southern Spain

Huete-Morales¹,

Quesada-Rubio²,

Rosales-Moreno³

et al. 2018

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Significant differences in climate and land use between adjacent or neighbouring areas are relatively common and may have many causes, but geographic factors are especially important [1]. In studying these causes, we must compare the different variables that may interact to produce unique climates and ecosystems. Such variables include latitude, altitude, relief, sunshine, rainfall, humidity, temperature, and proximity to water bodies, and can produce a characteristic landscape. The rural abandonment, associated with demographic and economic changes also produce changes in the soil surface [2]. A natural region is an area bound by criteria of physical geography, mainly those related to relief, but also to climate, hydrography, vegetation, soil, and others [3]. Physical factors allow us to consider the natural region as a homogeneous and individual area. In Spain, the study of natural regions began in the mid-20th century [4]. Orographic regions are determined by

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Threatened plants of arid ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study of the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula

Cited by 24 publications

References 37 publications

Representation and protection of threatened biodiversity by the largest Spanish regional network of protected areas

Representation and protection of threatened biodiversity by the largest Spanish regional network of protected areas

Checklist of gypsophilous vascular flora in Italy

Environmental Differences between Two Neighboring Regions of Southern Spain

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