Sierra Nevada (Spain) LTER platform: Towards adaptive management of mediterranean ecosystems
Poster Number:
193
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Francisco Bonet Sierra Nevada is a high mountain range (reaching 3,482 m.a.s.l.) located in Southern Spain (37oN, 3o W) covering 2,000 km2. It is a Natural Biosphere Reserve (MaB. Unesco), a Special Protection Area and Site of Community Importance (Natura 2000 network) an also a National Park.
This mountain range can be considered as one of the most important hotspots of biodiversity in the whole Mediterranean region. Sierra Nevada hosts more than 2500 species of vascular plants, 100 of then are endemics.
Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory is a long term monitoring program to assess the effects of global change in this LTER site. The basic objective is to ensure the collection of information necessary to identify as early as possible the impacts of global change, to design management actions that minimize them and encourage the system adaptation to new scenarios. The data generated by this set of methodologies must be transformed into useful knowledge for adaptive management of natural resources. The key issues are the integration and analysis of monitoring data by an information management system, and the transfer of current scientific knowledge to society and the natural resource managers through effective dissemination.
In this poster we will show the structure of our monitoring program, the main preliminary results that we have obtained in the last 5 years and the most important challenges that we will face up in the next future.
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