The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas

SUMMARY: Centuries of exploiting resources on Macaronesian islands left a significant footprint on their landscapes, even in areas where human activity would seem to be virtually absent. To clarify such interference, this paper explored how the impact of land use determined some attributes of curren...

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Autores principales:	Arozena,M Eugenia, Panareda,Josep M, Figueiredo,Albano
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales 2019
Materias:	laurel forest dynamics climax vegetation human activity disturbance subseral communities
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-920020190003002992020-01-13The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areasArozena,M EugeniaPanareda,Josep MFigueiredo,Albano laurel forest dynamics climax vegetation human activity disturbance subseral communities SUMMARY: Centuries of exploiting resources on Macaronesian islands left a significant footprint on their landscapes, even in areas where human activity would seem to be virtually absent. To clarify such interference, this paper explored how the impact of land use determined some attributes of current laurel forest landscape. Focused on communities dominated by heath and Morella faya, this work analyzed the effect of land use on their physiognomy and floristic composition, challenging the interpretation as climax communities. Based on a synchronic approach, the collected data supported a dynamic interpretation of such communities, installed on areas disturbed by human activities over long periods in the past. The combination of floristic composition, structure and land-use proxies suggested that such communities should be interpreted as subseral communities. This interpretation led to the idea that human factor should be considered as a critical driving force shaping landscape. Such an approach, promoting an adjustment in the scientific interpretation, assumed that current attributes of such communities were derived from past land-use options and do not represent a single response to abiotic conditions. Without questioning the value of those communities for conservation, that approach pointed out that protection measures should consider the potential occurrence of significant changes in terms of floristic composition and structure at medium term in that type of communities.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias ForestalesBosque (Valdivia) v.40 n.3 20192019-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-92002019000300299en10.4067/S0717-92002019000300299
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spellingShingle	laurel forest dynamics climax vegetation human activity disturbance subseral communities Arozena,M Eugenia Panareda,Josep M Figueiredo,Albano The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas
description	SUMMARY: Centuries of exploiting resources on Macaronesian islands left a significant footprint on their landscapes, even in areas where human activity would seem to be virtually absent. To clarify such interference, this paper explored how the impact of land use determined some attributes of current laurel forest landscape. Focused on communities dominated by heath and Morella faya, this work analyzed the effect of land use on their physiognomy and floristic composition, challenging the interpretation as climax communities. Based on a synchronic approach, the collected data supported a dynamic interpretation of such communities, installed on areas disturbed by human activities over long periods in the past. The combination of floristic composition, structure and land-use proxies suggested that such communities should be interpreted as subseral communities. This interpretation led to the idea that human factor should be considered as a critical driving force shaping landscape. Such an approach, promoting an adjustment in the scientific interpretation, assumed that current attributes of such communities were derived from past land-use options and do not represent a single response to abiotic conditions. Without questioning the value of those communities for conservation, that approach pointed out that protection measures should consider the potential occurrence of significant changes in terms of floristic composition and structure at medium term in that type of communities.
author	Arozena,M Eugenia Panareda,Josep M Figueiredo,Albano
author_facet	Arozena,M Eugenia Panareda,Josep M Figueiredo,Albano
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title	The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas
title_short	The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas
title_full	The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas
title_fullStr	The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas
title_full_unstemmed	The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas
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publisher	Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales
publishDate	2019
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The footprint of land use on the Macaronesian laurel forest landscape: an underestimated driving factor in protected areas

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