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Dynamic shifts of functional diversity through climate-resilient strategies and farmland restoration in a mountain protected area

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dc.creator Campos, João C.
dc.creator Alírio, João
dc.creator Arenas-Castro, Salvador
dc.creator Duarte, Lia
dc.creator Garcia, Nuno
dc.creator Regos Sanz, Adrián
dc.creator Pôças, Isabel
dc.creator Teodoro, Ana C.
dc.creator Sillero, Neftalí
dc.date 2024
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-03T12:14:44Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-03T12:14:44Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121622
dc.identifier 1095-8630
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/466277
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/23816
dc.description Land-use land-cover (LULC) change contributes to major ecological impacts, particularly in areas undergoing land abandonment, inducing modifications on habitat structure and species distributions. Alternative land-use policies are potential solutions to alleviate the negative impacts of contemporary tendencies of LULC change on biodiversity. This work analyzes these tendencies in the Montesinho Natural Park (Portugal), an area representative of European abandoned mountain rural areas. We built ecological niche models for 226 species of vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) and vascular plants, using a consensus modelling approach available in the R package ‘biomod2’. We projected the models to contemporary (2018) and future (2050) LULC scenarios, under four scenarios aiming to secure relevant ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation for 2050: an afforestation and a rewilding scenario, focused on climate-smart management strategies, and a farmland and an agroforestry recovery scenario, based on re-establishing human traditional activities. We quantified the influences of these scenarios on biodiversity through species habitat suitability changes for 2018–2050. We analyzed how these management strategies could influence indices of functional diversity (functional richness, functional evenness and functional dispersion) within the park. Habitat suitability changes revealed complementary patterns among scenarios. Afforestation and rewilding scenarios benefited more species adapted to habitats with low human influence, such as forests and open woodlands. The highest functional richness and dispersion was predicted for rewilding scenarios, which could improve landscape restoration and provide opportunities for the expansion and recolonization of forest areas by native species. The recovery of traditional farming and agroforestry activities results in the lowest values of functional richness, but these strategies contribute to complex landscape matrices with diversified habitats and resources. Moreover, this strategy could offer opportunities for fire suppression and increase landscape fire resistance. An integrative approach reconciling rewilding initiatives with the recovery of extensive agricultural and agroforestry activities is potentially an harmonious strategy for supporting the provision of ecosystem services while securing biodiversity conservation and functional diversity within the natural park.
dc.description This research was supported by Portuguese national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the MontObEO project (MTS/BRB/0091/2020). JCC is supported by a contract under the scope of the MontObEO project (MTS/BRB/0091/2020), funded by FCT. NS is supported by a CEEC2017 contract (CEECIND/02213/2017) from FCT. SAC is supported by the María Zambrano fellowship program funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities and the EU- NextGenerationEU fund. AR is supported by the Juan de la Cierva fellowship program of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (IJC2019-041033-I).
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation IJC2019-041033-I
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121622
dc.relation Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, vol. 366, art. 121622
dc.rights cc-by (c) The Authors, 2024
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Biodiversity conservation
dc.subject Ecological niche models
dc.subject Ecosystem functioning
dc.subject Future scenarios
dc.subject Land-use change
dc.subject Protected areas
dc.subject Remote Sensing
dc.subject Species communities
dc.title Dynamic shifts of functional diversity through climate-resilient strategies and farmland restoration in a mountain protected area
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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