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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

Life platform meeting on ecosystem servicesCoordinating beneficiary:

Life Platform Meeting on Ecosystem ServicesLife AdaptaMed (LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612)

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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).


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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


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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

rovin

g a

da

pti

ve

ca

pa

cit

y

• 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)


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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


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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


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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


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Communication and awareness rise on ES

Water resources

provision and

regulation

Biodiversity

Climatic regulation Provision: cattle,

honey, wood…

Carbon sequestration

and reservoir


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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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