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Deliberative mapping of ecosystem services within and around Donana National Park (SW Spain) in relation to land use change

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Ignacio Palomo

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Resource description:

The establishment of protected areas is one of the main strategies for preserving biodiversity from land use transformation. However, a great number of protected areas are becoming isolated due to land use changes in their surroundings.

Requirements:

  • We analysed quantitatively land use changes from 1956 to 2007 inside and around one of the most emblematic protected areas in Europe, the Donana protected area.
  • Stakeholders mapped social values for current ecosystem service delivery with an expert workshop. Using the maps from the workshop, we mapped six ecosystem service spatial indicators: Service Provision Hotspots, Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural, Richnes
  • Then, we performed nonparametric and multi-variate statistical analyses to study the associations between land uses, ecosystem service indicators and protection category.

Advantages:

  • Our results confirm the isolation of the Donana protected area as intense land use changes occurred outside it (increase in irrigated agricultural lands and urbanised areas and decrease in wetlands surface). Furthermore, land uses and the protection categ

Constraints:

  • N/A

DOI reference:

10.1007/s10113-013-0488-5

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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