Environmental Factors Controlling the  13C and  18O Variations of Recent Fluvial Tufas: A 12-Year Record from the Monasterio de Piedra Natural Park (Ne Iberian Peninsula)

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Osacar ◽  
C. Arenas ◽  
M. Vazquez-Urbez ◽  
C. Sancho ◽  
L. F. Auque ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula

scholarly journals The Role of Recent (1985–2014) Patterns of Land Abandonment and Environmental Factors in the Establishment and Growth of Secondary Forests in the Iberian Peninsula

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 817
Author(s):  
Marina Palmero-Iniesta ◽  
Josep Maria Espelta ◽  
Mario Padial-Iglesias ◽  
Òscar Gonzàlez-Guerrero ◽  
Lluís Pesquer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Deciduous Forests ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Leaf Habit ◽  
Forest Establishment

Farmland abandonment has been a widespread land-use change in the Iberian Peninsula since the second half of the 20th century, leading to the establishment of secondary forests across the region. In this study, we aimed to address changes in the recent (1985–2014) emergence patterns of these forests and examine how environmental factors affected their growth by considering differences in leaf-habit types. We used a combination of Landsat-derived land-cover maps and aboveground biomass (AGB) maps from the European Space Agency to assess the secondary forest establishment and growth, respectively, in the study region. We also obtained a set of topographic, climatic and landscape variables from diverse GIS layers and used them for determining changes over time in the environmental drivers of forest establishment and AGB using general linear models. The results highlight that secondary forest cover was still increasing in the Iberian Peninsula at a rate above the European average. Yet, they also indicate a directional change in the emergence of secondary forests towards lower and less steep regions with higher water availability (mean rainfall and SPEI) and less forest cover but are subjected to greater drought events. In addition, these environmental factors differentially affect the growth of forests with different leaf-habit types: i.e., needleleaf secondary forests being less favoured by high temperature and precipitation, and broadleaf deciduous forests being most negatively affected by drought. Finally, these spatial patterns of forest emergence and the contrasting responses of forest leaf-habits to environmental factors explained the major development of broadleaf evergreen compared to broadleaf deciduous forests and, especially, needleleaf secondary forests. These results will improve the knowledge of forest dynamics that have occurred in the Iberian Peninsula in recent decades and provide an essential tool for understanding the potential effects of climate warming on secondary forest growth.

Palaeoenvironmental record of the Cal Maurici wetland sediment archive in Barcelona (NE Iberian Peninsula) between c. 6000 and 4000 cal. yr BP

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1020-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Daura ◽  
Montserrat Sanz ◽  
Jordi Ramos ◽  
Santiago Riera ◽  
Yannick Miras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Wetland Sediment ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula

scholarly journals Historical, hydraulic, hydrological and meteorological reconstruction of 1874 Santa Tecla flash floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

2015 ◽  
Vol 524 ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet ◽  
Josep Carles Balasch ◽  
Jordi Tuset ◽  
Mariano Barriendos ◽  
Jordi Mazon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Flash Floods ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula

Rhynchosauroides Footprint Variability in a Muschelkalk Detrital Interval (Late Anisian–Middle Ladinian) from the Catalan Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Ichnos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 150-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eudald Mujal ◽  
Guillem Iglesias ◽  
Oriol Oms ◽  
Josep Fortuny ◽  
Arnau Bolet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula

A new species of Anchitherium (Equidae: Anchitheriinae) from the Middle Miocene of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 567-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheyenn Rotgers ◽  
David M. Alba ◽  
Josep M. Robles ◽  
Isaac Casanovas-Vilar ◽  
Jordi Galindo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula ◽  
A New Species
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