Sustainable management of cork oak (Quercus Suber L.) forests in The Algibe mountains and "Campo de Gibraltar" (Cádiz-Málaga)

  1. Vicente Jurado 1
  2. Miguel Angel Benítez
  1. 1 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

Libro:
Suberwood: new challenges for the integration of cork oak forests and products
  1. Vázquez-Piqué, Javier (ed. lit.)
  2. Pereira, Helena (ed. lit.)
  3. González-Pérez, Arantzazu (ed. lit.)

Editorial: Universidad de Huelva ; Centro de Investigación y Documentación del Eucalipto (CIDEU) ; Junta de Andalucía

ISBN: 978-84-96826-47-2,  978-84-18628-34-4

Año de publicación: 2008

Páginas: 307-318

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

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Resumen

All forests hold natural resources whose exploitation has allowed man to get timber, firewood, cork, fruit, as well as giving the possibility of raising domestic cattle. In Andalusia, as in the whole Mediterranean Basin, the action of man upon forests has been destructive. Nevertheless, the particular ecological, historical and geographical factors near the Strait of Gibraltar have contributed to the origin and maintenance of large, well-preserved cork oak forests. Since cork was first used to make bottle caps for wine bottles in the seventeenth century, the value of cork has helped to preserve cork oak woodlands. Nowadays, the cork industry plays an important socioeconomic and environmental role in Andalusia.

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