Person: Díaz Pineda, Francisco
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First Name
Francisco
Last Name
Díaz Pineda
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Ciencias Biológicas
Department
Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución
Area
Ecología
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Item Identifying socio-ecological networks in rural-urban gradients: Diagnosis of a changing cultural landscape(Science of the total environment, 2018) Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia; Schmitz García, María Fe; Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Gutíerrez Angonese, J.; Díaz Pineda, Francisco; Montes, C.Socio-ecological systems maintain reciprocal interactions between biophysical and socioeconomic structures. As a result of these interactions key essential services for society emerge. Urban expansion is a direct driver of land change and cause serious shifts in socio-ecological relationships and the associated lifestyles. The framework of rural-urban gradients has proved to be a powerful tool for ecological research about urban influences on ecosystems and on sociological issues related to social welfare. However, to date there has not been an attempt to achieve a classification of municipalities in rural-urban gradients based on socio-ecological interactions. In this paper, we developed a methodological approach that allows identifying and classifying a set of socio-ecological network configurations in the Region of Madrid, a highly dynamic cultural landscape considered one of the European hotspots in urban development. According to their socio-ecological links, the integrated model detects four groups of municipalities, ordered along a rural-urban gradient, characterized by their degree of biophysical and socioeconomic coupling and different indicators of landscape structure and social welfare. We propose the developed model as a useful tool to improve environmental management schemes and land planning from a socio-ecological perspective, especially in territories subject to intense urban transformations and loss of rurality.Item Heritage Cultural Landscape of Lozoya Valley (central Spain): methods and sources of spatial analysis(Topografía y cartografía, 2016) Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia; De la O, Manuel Rodrigo; Escudero, D.; Mariné, N.; Díaz Pineda, Francisco; Schmitz García, María FeWe present a work developed in the Lozoya Valley, an area included into the list of Cultural Landscapes developed by IPCE, due to its highly valuable patrimonial characteristics. The study area combines sites of high naturalistic value with others that have been intensively transformed by humans throughout history. The traditional management of natural resources has shaped the landscape, giving place to an extent mosaic of silvopastoral uses, livestock tracks, and other singular elements, such as stone hedges. This combines with an important cultural heritage derived of the historical presence of clergy and royal families and in the area. The present work analyzes the dynamics of change in the spatial configuration of the territory. Using satellite images, we study landscape configuration through variables such as fragmentation, connectivity and heterogeneity. We use Fragstats software, which allows processing a wide range of territorial data to determine specific spatial patterns. We discuss some questions about natural and cultural heritage, and the effectiveness of protected areas in preserving rural-cultural landscapes.Item People and nature in the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve (Canary Islands): socio-ecological relationships under climate change(Environmental Conservation, 2017) Schmitz García, María Fe; Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia; Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Díaz, Pablo; Gaspar García de Matos, Daniela; Díaz Pineda, FranciscoThis paper analyses the interdependence between environment and society in terms of socio-ecological webs, in which human and biophysical systems are linked. A quantitative model, based on canonical correlation analysis applied in Fuerteventura Island (Canary Archipelago), detected indicators of human– landscape relationships and predicted potential shifts based on simulated environmental changes. In the last few decades, the landscape of Fuerteventura Island has changed: natural components and cultural agrarian uses have decreased, while the population has increased due to immigration, mainly from mainland Spain and other European countries. The island shows a transition from a coupled local socio-ecosystem to one based on the interaction between environment and coastal tourism that decouples native inhabitants from the landscape and traditional land-use practices. As vulnerability and adaptation to climate change represent critical sets of potential interactions in Canary Islands, a model and a map of the socioecological system under four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios show rural decoupling through ‘deagrarianization’ and ‘deruralization’, as well as stronger links to the tourism system.Item Rural tourism: crossroads between nature, socio-ecological decoupling and urban sprawl(WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, 2018) Arnaitz Schmitz, Cecilia; Santos, Luis; Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Díaz, Pablo; Díaz Pineda, Francisco; Schmitz García, María FeThe development of cultural tourism has turned traditional rural landscapes, characterized by their great natural and cultural values, into focus of tourism attraction, causing important changes in the socioeconomic structure of the regions containing them. The enhancement of this tourism highlights the need to design and implement a sustainable management that guarantees the maintenance and conservation of the landscape and the economic development of local populations. This study, localised in the Lozoya Valley (Guadarrama Mountains, Central Spain), analyses the socio-ecological situation of its municipalities and visitors in two different times. The analysis of its temporal evolution has allowed us to notice a marked socio-ecological decoupling characterized by urban sprawl, loss of traditional landuses and practices and the rurality of local society. At the same time, a decrease is detected in the rural landscape valuation by visitors, increasing their preferences for naturalness. The conducted study is a novel contribution applicable to the conservative management of the landscape and the development of sustainable tourism for nature and society.Item Effects of different clipping intensities on above- and below-ground production in simulated herbaceous plant communities(Plant Biosystems, 2016) Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Schmitz García, María Fe; Díaz Pineda, FranciscoWe studied the effect of clipping on above- and below-ground production in different plant communities through a factorial experiment. We designed five pasture systems with different species composition, perennials/annuals ratio and soil water availability, recreating different altitudinal locations, and simulated a gradient of grazing intensity by clipping with different heights and frequencies. Response patterns of above- and below-ground production were similar, increasing with the higher clipping frequency and decreasing with altitude. These results suggest that high grazing intensity stimulate above-ground production, but only in certain situations of species composition, density, diversity,perennials/annuals ratio and water availability. This stimulus, however, is unsustainable over time, and the lower clipping frequencies are those that favour the maintenance of production.Item Evaluating the role of a protected area on hedgerow conservation: the case of a spanish cultural landscape(Land Degradation & Development, 2016) Schmitz García, María Fe; Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia; Sánchez, Iván A.; Rescia Perazzo, Alejandro Javier; Díaz Pineda, FranciscoHedgerows are key features in agricultural landscapes performing diverse functions that are both economically and ecologically significant. Here, we quantify how the characteristics of a relict hedgerow network of a Spanish cultural landscape (Guadarrama mountains in the north of Madrid region) have changed over a single decade both inside and outside the boundaries of a Protected Area, the aim of which is to conserve cultural uses and biodiversity. A gradient of abandonment of pasture systems was detected, including a decline and loss of woody species from hedgerows associated with grazed areas towards shrub encroachment zones. These tendencies were similar inside and outside the boundaries of the Protected Area. The results highlight the management weaknesses of the Protected Area in order to achieve its objectives.Based on the results, we propose to include a specific conservation status for hedgerow landscapes in the regulatory framework of Spanish protected areas. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.