Impacts of changes in land use and fragmentation patterns on Atlantic coastal forests in northern Spain

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dc.contributor.authorLópez Teixido, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Quintanilla, Luis
dc.contributor.authorCarreño, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorGutiérrez, David
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-23T17:17:39Z
dc.date.available2024-01-23T17:17:39Z
dc.date.issued2009-12-11
dc.descriptionAcknowledgements We would like to thank Luis Costa and the forest rangers of Fragas do Eume Natural Park for fieldwork support. We are also grateful to Rosa Menéndez for providing comments, Tatiana Izquierdo for helping with GIS and Lori J. De Hond for linguistic assistance. This research was supported by the Galician Consellería de Medio Ambiente e Desenvolvemento Sostible (project 215/2006) and by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (project CGL2006-07012). FOGGA (Fondo Galego de Garantía Agraria) provided the orthoimages used in the study.
dc.description.abstractChanges in forested landscapes may have important consequences for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. In northern Spain, major changes in land use occurred during the second half of the 20th century, but their impacts on forests have not been quantified. We evaluated the dynamics of landscape and forest distribution patterns between 1957 and 2003 in Fragas do Eume Natural Park (northwestern Spain). We used orthoimages and a set of standard landscape metrics to determine transitions between land cover classes and to examine forest distribution patterns. Eucalypt plantations showed the greatest increase in area (197%) over time. Furthermore, transitions to eucalypt plantations were found in all major land cover classes. Forest showed a net decline of 20% in total area and represented 30% of the landscape area in 2003. Forest losses were mainly due to eucalypt plantations and the building of a water reservoir, while forest gains were due to increases in shrubland, meadows and cultivated fields which had been recolonised. Forest patch size and core area decreased, and edge length increased over time. In turn, increases were obtained in mean distance between forest patches, and in adjacency to eucalypt plantations and to a water reservoir. These results suggest an increase in forest fragmentation from 1957 to 2003, as well as a change in the nature of the habitat surrounding forest patches. This study shows that land use changes, mostly from eucalypt plantation intensification, negatively affected forested habitats, although some regeneration was ongoing through ecological succession from land abandonment.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Biológicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.11.004
dc.identifier.issn0301-4797
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479709003880?via%3Dihub
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94887
dc.journal.titleJournal of Environmental Management
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final886
dc.page.initial879
dc.publisherElsevier
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dc.subject.cdu581.526.42
dc.subject.keywordAdjacency
dc.subject.keywordEucalypt plantations
dc.subject.keywordForest patches
dc.subject.keywordLand cover classes
dc.subject.keywordRiparian forests
dc.subject.keywordTransitions
dc.subject.ucmMedio ambiente natural
dc.subject.ucmBotánica (Biología)
dc.subject.ucmEcología (Biología)
dc.subject.unesco2505.01-1 Biogeografía Botánica
dc.subject.unesco2417.13 Ecología Vegetal
dc.titleImpacts of changes in land use and fragmentation patterns on Atlantic coastal forests in northern Spain
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dc.volume.number91
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