A5002419309- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Water resources management and optimization
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Plant and soil sciences
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
University of Alicante
2019-2025
Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
2015-2025
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2008-2023
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
2011
Instituto de Carboquímica
2000
Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may occur but have never been addressed simultaneously. Using a standardized survey at 98 sites across six continents, we show that soil, are critical to explain delivery fundamental drylands Increasing pressure reduced service in warmer species-poor drylands, whereas positive...
Abstract The divergence between agricultural water use and the annual supply of resources (water gap) has been increasing for decades. forecast is that this gap will continue to widen, compromising security a large share global population. On one hand, increase in demand attributed an ever-growing population that, addition, adopting high-water consumption per capita lifestyle (e.g., meat-rich diet, increased biofuels irrigated agriculture). other climate change aridification spatio-temporal...
Vegetation generally appears scattered in drylands. Its structure, composition and spatial patterns are key controls of biotic interactions, water, nutrient cycles. Applying segmentation methods to very high-resolution images for monitoring changes vegetation cover can provide relevant information dryland conservation ecology. For this reason, improving understanding the effect resolution on results is improve monitoring. We explored analyzed accuracy Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) Mask...
Fairy circles (FCs) are regular vegetation patterns found in drylands of Namibia and Western Australia. It is virtually unknown whether they also present other regions the world which environmental factors determine their distribution. We conducted a global systematic survey FC-like 263 sites from 15 countries three continents, including Sahel, Madagascar, Middle-West Asia. environments characterized by unique combination soil (including low nutrient levels high sand content) climatic (arid...
ABSTRACT Monitoring river connectivity across large regions is essential for understanding hydrological processes and environmental management. However, comprehensive assessments of are often hindered by inaccurate dam databases, which biased towards larger dams while overlooking smaller or low‐head dams. To enhance the accuracy assessments, we developed three advanced convolutional neural networks (CNNs; YOLOv5, Advance‐You Only Look Once [YOLO], Faster R‐CNN) to accurately classify...
Drosophila suzukii is an invasive pest that poses a significant threat to fruit crops worldwide, leading considerable agricultural losses and economic damage. Unlike chemical control measures against D. suzukii, integrating insect-proof nets within IPM framework offers more sustainable solution. This study evaluates the efficacy of nine commercial protective this pest, focusing on determining optimal hole dimensions based effects airflow velocity, temperature, morphometry net performance. To...
The latest world atlas of desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis desertification. While it forgoes mapping due to intrinsic complexity phenomenon and impossibility measuring using single indicator, introduces convergence evidence paradigm, which identifies socioeconomic biophysical variables whose behaviour allows pointing out those areas prone Spanish National Action Program Against Desertification (PAND), back 2008, already implemented similar approach identify five...
The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands kilometers away (deforestation to produce grain for feeding livestock). Despite their importance, these externalities are poorly known. Here we evaluated how the intensification confinement Spain has affected surface there South America, largest provider soybeans animal feed European Union. For this purpose, have used Spanish soybean import...
States of ecological maturity and temporal trends drylands in Morocco, Algeria Tunisia north 28°N are reported for 1998–2008. The input data were Normalized Difference Vegetation Index databases corresponding climate fields, at a spatial resolution 1 km one month. convey opposing dynamics human exploitation succession. They identified synchronically the full period by comparing each location to all other locations study area under equivalent aridity. Rain Use Efficiency (RUE) two scales was...