Pasado, presente y futuro de los bosques de montaña (III)Dinámica de los ecotonos forestales

  1. Fernando Montes 1
  2. Álvaro Rubio-Cuadrado 2
  3. Mariola Sánchez-González 1
  4. Cristina Gómez 1
  5. Laura Hernández 1
  6. Daniel Moreno-Fernández 1
  7. Rut Sánchez de Dios 3
  8. Helios Sainz-Ollero 4
  9. Isabel Cañellas 1
  10. Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda 5
  11. Lluís Coll
  12. Jesús Julio Camarero 6
  1. 1 INIA-CIFOR
  2. 2 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03n6nwv02

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02p0gd045

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  4. 4 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01cby8j38

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  5. 5 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad de Valladolid
  6. 6 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
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    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/039ssy097

    Geographic location of the organization Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
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Book:
Proyectos de investigación en parques nacionales: 2013-2017
  1. Amengual Ramis, Josep (coord.)

Publisher: Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales

ISBN: 978-84-8014-924-2

Year of publication: 2019

Pages: 193-213

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

Mountain forest ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula constitute the worldwide southernmost distributionlimit of some tree species. These areas, are considered particularly sensitive to climate-change effects andalso to recent changes in land use. Expected forests’ responses to these changes include upward altitudinalshifts of vegetation belts towards more suitable conditions for their establishment and growth or changesin the relevance of dominant tree species due to the abandonment of forest management. In this project weanalyse the species dynamics in four National Parks covering a wide climatic, biogeographic and historicaluse gradients: «Ordesa y Monte Perdido», «Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici» «Picos de Europa» and«Sierra de Guadarrama». Changes in species distribution have been inferred from the analysis of the National Forest Inventory and our own sampling, as well as from information derived from historical forest maps(1966 and 1995) and remote-sensing imagery (Landsat). The ecotones between Abies alba (expanding) andPinus uncinata (retreating) in «Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici» National Park and between Quercuspyrenaica and Pinus sylvestris in «Sierra de Guadarrama» National Park moved upwards during the lastdecades. In «Ordesa y Monte Perdido» National Park the expansion of Fagus sylvatica and Abies alba is presumably a consequence of their shade tolerant character that enables successful regeneration in dense forestconditions favored by a lack of management. In «Picos de Europa» National Park, dynamics are dominatedby the Holocene expansion of Fagus sylvatica along the Cantabric range.

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