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Martina Sánchez-Pinillos Aitor Ameztegui Lluís Coll: Main Trends and Temporal Evolution
Martina Sánchez-Pinillos Aitor Ameztegui Lluís Coll: Main Trends and Temporal Evolution
Martina Sánchez-Pinillos Aitor Ameztegui Lluís Coll: Main Trends and Temporal Evolution
to natural disturbances:
Main trends and temporal evolution
Martina Snchez-Pinillos ;
1* Aitor Ameztegui ;
1, 2 Llus Coll1, 2, 3
1 Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CEMFOR-CTFC); 2 Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF);
3 Department of Agriculture and Forest Engineering (AGROF), University of Lleida
IN A NUTSHELL RESULTS
The current context of global change leads to focus management Temporal evolution of PI
efforts on preserving the ecosystems persistence and associated
services.
Trait-based approaches can be used to assess the persistence capacity
of communities to deal with disturbances.
In this study
We related the Iberian forest dynamics with the temporal evolution of
their persistence capacity facing fire, drought, and windstorm events.
We used permanent plots of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Spanish National
Forest Inventory (SNFI) to cover changes in 20 years.
The persistence capacity of the Iberian forests has increased along the
last 20 years, This result relates with:
Increments in the stands functional diversity and canopy cover.
Fig. 1. Changes in PI values between the 2SNFI and the 3SNFI for each plot Fig. 2. Changes in PI values between the 3SNFI and the 4SNFI for each plot
Growing presence of non-native species in some regions.
This approach allows to assess the consequences that past disturbances Forest dynamics
Table 2. Mean values of forest cover (FC) for each inventory and region
and management decisions in the persistence capacity of forests.
General Galicia La Rioja Madrid Murcia Pas Vasco
2SNFI 67.0 66,1 71,5 61,4 54,7 73,5
FC (%) 3SNFI 72.6 70,8 76,8 69,2 56,9 82,1
METHODOLOGY 4SNFI 75.2 74,3 80,3 69,7 60,1 83,5
The Persistence Index (PI):
Rationale of PI
An ecosystem will be more resilient and resistant to disturbances if it
contains a greater presence of species with a given set of response
traits.
PI integrates three components related to the ecosystem persistence
capacity:
Number of response traits.
Abundance of species presenting response traits.
Redundancy of response traits across species.
Formulation of PI
PI RTR RTA
Response Trait Richness (RTR) Response Trait Abundance (RTA)
M M S
w max( v1,t ,..., vS ,t ) wt vi ,t xi
RTR t 1 t
RTA t 1 i 1
t 1 wt
M M
t 1
wt
Requirements to calculate PI
Table 1. Requirements to calculate PI theoretically and in our case study, and corresponding formula parameters
*Corresponding author:
E-mail address: martina.sanchezpinillos@ctfc.es (M. Snchez-Pinillos)