Abstract Understanding the nature's values and landscape preferences that determine the connection between people and nature may provide key insights to unravel some of the major sustainability challenges. However, knowledge of such factors, how they vary across landscapes, or whether they reflect more fundamental causes of (dis)connection from nature is still scarce. In this study, we focused […]
Abstract El Manual del Azufaifar en Cabo de Gata, desarrollado en el marco del proyecto LIFE ADAPTAMED, destaca la importancia ecológica de del matorral de Ziziphus lotus, un hábitat prioritario para la conservación de la biodiversidad en Europa. El documento describe la estructura y funcionamiento de este ecosistema (el azufaifar), caracterizado como un archipiélago de […]
Abstract Ecosystem restoration is widely recognized as a key strategy to address social-ecological challenges. National governments have pledged to restore millions of hectares of land. However, the ability to accomplish these pledges remains opaque, because restoration efforts are influenced by complex social-ecological factors. We provide a global analysis of national-level enabling and hindering conditions and […]
Abstract Expanding in both scope and scale, ecosystem restoration needs to embrace complex social–ecological dynamics. To help scientists and practitioners navigate ever new demands on restoration, we propose the “social–ecological ladder of restoration ambition” as a conceptual model to approach dynamically shifting social and ecological restoration goals. The model focuses on three dynamic aspects of […]
Abstract Human-driven land use change can result in unequitable outcomes in the provision and appropriation of ecosystem services (ES). To better address equity-related effects of land use change in decision-making, analyses of land use and ES changes under different land use management alternatives should incorporate ecological and social information and take a disaggregated approach to […]
Abstract Triple oxygen isotopes of lacustrine gypsum and carbonate deposits are used to quantitatively assess past hydroclimate conditions. An accurate interpretation of these paleo-archives requires a fundamental understanding of processes driving the variability of 17O-excess in hydrologically different lake systems and their dynamics. Here, we present results of an ongoing monitoring study of triple oxygen and […]
Abstract El Hierro is the westernmost, smallest, and youngest island of the Canary archipelago (Spain). The island is shaped by three rift zones, with the last eruption taking place in the submarine extension of the southern rift in October 2011. This study aimed to characterize volcanic activity on El Hierro Island. To this end, soil […]
Abstract Classical aerobiological studies commonly use high-volume air samplers to quantify and identify cultivable airborne bacteria and fungi. However, this approach introduces a significant bias, as it overlooks the non-cultivable fraction, which likely constitutes a major component of the airborne microbiome. The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has addressed this limitation, enabling a more comprehensive […]
Abstract Cork, the bark of cork oak (Quercus suber), is a major non-wood forest product in the Mediterranean Basin, but its future production will depend on forecasted warmer and drier conditions. The comparison of topographically contrasting sites, subjected to different soil water availability, may be used as an analogous situation to projected aridification. We quantified cork and wood production […]
Abstract This study presents a methodology for estimating the saturation index (SI) of halite, gypsum, anhydrite, and calcite, as well as the partial pressure of CO2 (logPCO2), using easily measurable water parameters: electrical conductivity, temperature, and pH. Our approach eliminates the need for extensive chemical analyses, allowing an efficient on-site application. PHREEQC was used to generate […]
