Resin-tapped pine forests in Spain: Ecological diversity and economic valuation
| Autor: | Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado, Gregorio Montero, Maria Regina Chambel, Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, Miren del Río, María Martínez-Jauregui, José M. García del Barrio, Sven Mutke, Jesús De Miguel, Tianqi Yu, Antón Justes, Mario Soliño, Ricardo Alía, F. J. Auñón |
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| Přispěvatelé: | European Commission |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Mediterranean climate Environmental Engineering 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Biodiversity Pinus pinaster 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Environmental Chemistry Ecosystem Ecosystem diversity Inverse distance weighting Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences biology Agroforestry Vascular plants biology.organism_classification Pollution Geography Discrete choice experiment Habitat Rural area 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname Repositorio de Resultados de Investigación del INIA Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria INIA INIA: Repositorio de Resultados de Investigación del INIA |
| ISSN: | 0048-9697 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.027 |
| Popis: | Since ancient times, Mediterranean pine forests have been habitat for human activity, providing a wide range of goods such as timber, seeds, resin and derived products. Among them, tar and resin have played an historical role on the interaction between human activity and forests. In Spain, the resin played an important role in the economic and social development in rural areas during 20th century. But after 1980, resin production plummeted and the virtual disappearance of resin tapping caused the abandonment of traditional forest activities and the subsequently losses of ecosystem forest services (provision, regulation and cultural). This paper deals with some of the ecosystem services provided by resin tapped pine forests and shows how the abandonment of this traditional forestry activity would lead to a loss of social welfare beyond the economic activity. Among these ecosystem services, special attention is paid to the biodiversity of the pine forests. For that purpose, a stratified vegetation sampling was conducted in the leading resin-tapping Spanish region. Ecological analysis was therefore compared with the social preferences for several attributes associated to resin-tapped pine forests in Spain, including the biodiversity of flora. Financial support from the SUDOE Interreg IV B – UE/EU FEDER/ERDF program (project SUST-FOREST, ref. SOE2/P2/E261) is acknowledged. This paper is also an accidental contribution of M.S. and S.M. to the project StarTree (funded by the European Union through the European Commission's FP7 Cooperation Work Programme). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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