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Identifying socio-ecological networks in rural-urban gradients: Diagnosis of a changing cultural landscape Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia Schmitz García, María Fe Herrero-Jáuregui, 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. 2023-06-17T12:27:08Z 2023-06-17T12:27:08Z 2018-01-15 journal article 0048-9697, ESSN: 1879-1026 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.215 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12079 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717322106 eng ECOGRADIENTS (CGL2014-53782-P),(BES-2015-074408) CULTURESCAPES (H2015/HUH-3383) restricted access Elsevier