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Sierra Nevada (Spain) LTER Platform: Towards Adaptive Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems
Sierra Nevada (Spain) LTER Platform: Towards Adaptive Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems
Monitoring Programme
50 years
1 year
Periodicity
Variables
Monitoring protocol
20 km
Types of ecosystems
The map shows the spatial distribution of ecosystems that have been identified in Sierra Nevada. Vegetation is predominantly high mountian shrublands and pine plantations. We also have natural forests (oaks, Pyrenean oaks, maples, etc.) that are regenerating after decades of overexploitation.
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High mountain shrubland Pine plantations Mid mountain shrubland High mountain grasslands Natural forests Agricultural areas Aquatic systems
Meteorological station
Granada
10 km
10 11 13 14 15 12 9 6 5 4 3 8 7 3 4 1 32 34 31 33 26 24 21 44 20 23 45 17 43 37 39 18 40 16 25
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16. Population trends of threatened flora 17. GLORIAs project plots 18. Juniper-genista thickets along an altitudinal gradient 19. Natural forest and high mountain shrubland 20. High mountain wet grasslands 21. Riparian forests 23. Iberian ibex monitoring 25. Eddy-covariance stations 32. Detailed characterization of vegetation changes 1956present. 37. Micromammals monitoring 38. Monitoring of mammals carnivores 39. Raptors
Natural area
40.Passerine bird monitoring 41. Amphibians 42. Reptiles 43. Monitoring butterflies 44. High mountain terrestrial arthropods 45. Pine processionary caterpillar
3. Monitoring the snowfall profile by MODIS sensor
19 41 42 38
24. NDVI index from satellite images 26. Socioeconomic characterization 31. Historic vegetation map from orthophotography 32. Reconstructing landscape history by compiling historical documents 33. Retrospective analysis of forest management
This graph shows in a very syntethic way most of the monitoring protocols that we are carrying out in Sierra Nevada. Each protocol is represented as a number (see legend at the left). Its characteristics are represented as parts of the radial graph. Each color line shows one of the 5 properties used to classify the protocols (see sector legend at the right).
6 Sierra Nevada
Spatial extension Administrative boundary Intensive Monitoring Area (IMA)
5
Spatial resolution
4 Points
50 years Length of the time series
3 2
Periodicity
1 year
Inventory (>1 year) Annual (1 year) Seasonal (3 months 1 year) Intensive (1 day 3 months)
0 1 variables /protocol