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Protection of key ecosystem services byadaptive management of climate change
endangered Mediterranean socio-ecosystemsLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin 10 -11 May 2017
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Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
PROJECT LOCATION: Andalusia (Spain)
BUDGET: 5.462.678 € (59,29% co-funded by EC)
PROJECT’S IMPLEMENTORS:
Coordinating Beneficiary:Andalusian Environmental Ministry (Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio , Junta de Andalucía)
Associated Beneficiaries:Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, CSIC (EBD), Granada University (IISTA), Almeria University (CAESCG), IUCN-Med &Parque de las Ciencias.
DURATION: 16/07/2015 - 15/07/2020
OBJECTIVES:To mitigate the negative effect of Climate Change on key ecosystem services provided by 3 representative Mediterranean Natural Protected Areas through:
• An adaptive management framework tested in a pilot scale, aimed to improve resilience of the targeted socio-ecosystems (pilot project).
• A temporal and spatial multiscale indicator system to monitor the impact of the project actions.• Communication and dissemination actions (demonstration project).
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
Increasing adaptation
capacity towards
climate change
• Altitudinal gradient: 0 – 3.481 masl
• Gradient West-East
• Precipitation gradient: 300-1.500 mm.
• Very diverse ecosystems
DoñanaNational Park and Nature Park, IUCN Green list site, BR, Ramsar site, ZEC. 108.087 ha. Ecosystems included in the project:▪ Wooded dunes with pines (Pinus
pinea and/or Pinus pinaster) ▪ Dehesas with evergreen Quercus
suber.
Sierra NevadaNational Park and Nature Park, IUCN Green list site, BR, Ramsar site, ZEC. 172.238 ha . Ecosystems included in the project:▪ High mountain scrubland.▪ Pine forests▪ Oak and holm oak forests (Quercus
pyrenaica & Q. rotundifolia)
Cabo de GataNature Park, BR, GeoPark, ZEC. 49.512 ha(12.012 marine).Ecosystems included in the project:▪ Tree-shrubland with Ziziphus▪ Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-desert
scrub▪ Pseudostepe with grasses and annuals
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
Life AdaptaMedconceptual framework
Global Change
drivers
Pressure on the
ecosystems
Ecosystem structure and
functioning
Adaptive management to protect ES
Climate Change
Land Use Changes
• Carbon sequestration and reservoir
• Biogeochemical cycles regulation
• Energy balance
• Water resources provision and regulation
• Biodiversity
• Climatic regulation
• Hunting, fishing, mushrooms and pinecones
collection, honey production, wood
Ecosystem Services
Impacts on ES
Imp
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• Changes in land use & cover
(abandonment, reforestation,
overexploitation of water resources)
• Changes in precipitation and temperature
patterns
• Ecosystem degradation
• Biodiversity loss
• Biological invasions
• Grazing pressure
• Agriculture
• Pollination disparities
• Pine plantations naturalization
• Diversification and maturation of oak forests
• Neobiotics elimination and control
• Soil protection
• Resilience improvement in key vegetal
formations (arid environment scrublands and
high mountain scrublands)
• Biodiversity improvement
• Changes in the spatial and temporal patterns of
the service provisioning
• Changes in the value and perception of the ES
• Interrelation among services (Trade-offs)
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
Sierra Nevada Cabo de GataDoñana
Problem
definition
Data
collecting
and models
Result
evaluation
Decission
takenAction
Management
evaluation
A1
A8
A2
A7
C2
C1
D8
D4
D5
D9
E2
E4
E12
National and International Scale
Regional Scale
C7
AtlanticOcean
MediterraneanSea
Life Programme
SER-Europe
UICNLTER
D7D1 D3D2
F2F2
F2 F2
F2F2
E11
F1F1
E10
E9
E10E10
E10
E10E10
MAGRAMA
E6E7
E5
E8
E: Communication/Dissem.
C: Implementation
D: Monitoring/evaluation
F: Project management
A: Preparatory
Life Adaptamed actions
Problem
definition
Data
collecting
& models
Result
evaluation
Decission
taken
Action
Management
evaluation
A1
A8
A2
A7
C2
C1
D8
D4
D5
D9
E2
E4
E12
E6
E7
E5
E8
Problem
definition
Data
collecting
& models
Resultevaluation
Decission
takenAction
Management
evaluation
A1
A8
A2
A7
C2
C1
D8
D4
D5
D9
E2
E4
E12
E6
E7
E5
E8
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
Evaluation of central actions at landscape scale
Resolution: 250 mTime lapse: 8 days
MODIS satellite
Resolution: 30 mTime lapse: 30 days
LANDSAT satellite
Field validation withUnmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) equipped withpasive sensor forradiometric information(3 m. resolution)
CARBON BALANCE
ENERGY BALANCE
WATER BALANCE
Fusionboth
Evaluation of central actions at field scale
SOIL
VEGETATION
ANIMAL BIODIVERSITY
ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACTS OF CENTRAL ACTIONS IN TERMS OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Plotinventories
previous and after action
implementation
BIODIVERSITY
SOIL FERTILITY
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
RASTER
ALFANUM
POLYGON
SIGCMAOT
NODE
POINT
LINE
NODE
NODE
CC assessment in Andalusia
Implementation of an Information System to monitor CC in Andalusia
To generate a Distributed
Information System within
the 3 nodes and the central
node (CMAOT Central
Services)
Level I: taskscarried out byall nodes
Level II: tasks carried outby some nodes withthematic or geographicsimilarities
Level II: tasks carriedout exclusively by eachnode
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
Communication and awareness rise on ES
Water resources
provision and
regulation
Biodiversity
Climatic regulation Provision: cattle,
honey, wood…
Carbon sequestration
and reservoir
Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)
Tallin, 11/05/2017
Successful stories
Main problems
Some interesting and successful previous experiences:
• ES Mapping in Sierra Nevada (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Laboratoriode socioecosistemas) Useful information on ES perception in S.N.
• Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory: good example of collaboration between scientists and managers working together (germ to the current LIFE Project)
• More TIME needed to assess the effect of the central actions in terms of maintenance or improvement of ES provision!
MAPPING BLUE CARBON IN ANDALUSIAN?
METHODOLOGY: DPSIR
FIELD SAMPLING: STRATIFYING
PROJECT AREA- SOIL CORING NATURAL AND ANTRHOPOGENIC
VARIABILITY
REGULATION SERVICES: EVALUATION OF THE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE
Blue carbon is the carbon sequester and stored in mangroves, salt tidal marshes and
seagrass meadows
ca. 7000 Ha Posidonia meadows
Tidal Salt Marshes: 24400 HaCadiz Bay and Odiel
Others seagrasses: Cymodocea nodosa,
Zostera noltii, Z. marina
The Life project bioDEHESA aims to promote the sustainable and
integrated management of dehesas in order to improve the situation of biodiversity through
the dissemination of demonstrational actions that address the main challenges related to their conservation.
INNOVATIVE AND DEMONSTRATIVE CHARACER OF THE PROJECT Dehesas traditional landscapes of Andalusia
Drivers of Change
VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION:
OPEN OAK FOREST
SHRUBS
GRASSLAND
MULTIFUNCIONAL:
CROPS AND LIVESTOCK
AGROFORESTRY
HUNTING
MILLENIUM ECOSYSTEM
METHODOLOGY
APPLICATION TO ESTATE SCALE
Multidimensional classification of Life bioDehesa Pilot Dehesas Network
DEHESA ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ASSESSMENT
MAIN CONCLUSIONS:
1. Economic viability is determined by Alimentation Service
2. Regulation Services have animportant role on Dehesas with
positive results on the different typeof dehesas
3. Cultural services have a limitationfor their analysis at state level
Features of each Service
Analysis of 11 Estates of the Pilot Network
22 Ecosystem services
Evaluation criteria
Indicators
Thank you very much for your attention !
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