Search Results - "Sanjuán, Maria E."

Present and future of desertification in Spain: Implementation of a surveillance system to prevent land degradation by Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Ibáñez, Javier, Del Barrio, Gabriel, Sanjuán, Maria E., Alcalá, Francisco J., Martínez-Vicente, Silvio, Ruiz, Alberto, Puigdefábregas, Juan

“…Mitigation strategies are crucial for desertification given that once degradation starts, other solutions are extremely expensive or unworkable. Prevention is…”
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Doomed to collapse: Why Algerian steppe rangelands are overgrazed and some lessons to help land-use transitions by Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Ibáñez, Javier, Del Barrio, Gabriel, Alcalá, Francisco J., Sanjuán, Maria E., Ruiz, Alberto, Hirche, Azziz, Puigdefábregas, Juan

“…This work illustrates the application of a simulation model to analyse how swiftly large-scale land-use changes can drive broad territories to collapse. In…”
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A dataset with complete geographic distributions of eight zonal monospecific forest types in mainland Spain by Sánchez de Dios, Rut, Sanjuán, Maria E., Sainz, Helios, Ruiz, Alberto, Valderrama, Jaime Martínez, del Barrio, Gabriel

“…Distribution area and surface are both parameters of paramount importance for habitat management, monitoring and conservation. Here we present the distribution…”
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Land degradation means a loss of management options by del Barrio, Gabriel, Sanjuán, Maria E., Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Ruiz, Alberto, Puigdefábregas, Juan

“…This essay approaches land degradation by targeting its ultimate thermodynamic causes, rather than its immediate environmental consequences. The objective is…”
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Abrupt fragmentation thresholds of eight zonal forest types in mainland Spain by del Barrio, Gabriel, Sainz, Helios, Sanjuán, Maria E., Sánchez de Dios, Rut, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Ruiz, Alberto

“…[Display omitted] •We measured fragmentation by fitting power laws of cumulative patch frequency over patch size.•The Korcak exponent enables scale breakpoints…”
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Land use intensification affects the relative importance of climate variation and active land degradation: Convergence of six regions around the world by Sanjuán, María E., Martínez‐Valderrama, Jaime, Ruiz, Alberto, del Barrio, Gabriel

“…We explored the relative importance of climate oscillations and human‐driven disturbances on the change in vegetation biomass in agroecosystems, and whether it…”
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Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios by Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, del Barrio, Gabriel, Sanjuán, María E., Guirado, Emilio, Maestre, Fernando T.

“…The latest world atlas of desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis of desertification. While it forgoes desertification mapping due to the…”
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Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion by Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Sanjuán, María E., del Barrio, Gabriel, Guirado, Emilio, Ruiz, Alberto, Maestre, Fernando T.

“…The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration of forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands of…”
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Assessment and monitoring of land condition in the Iberian Peninsula, 1989–2000 by del Barrio, Gabriel, Puigdefabregas, Juan, Sanjuan, Maria E., Stellmes, Marion, Ruiz, Alberto

“…Diagnosis of land condition is a basic prerequisite for finding the degradation of a territory under climatic and human pressures leading to desertification…”
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Land Degradation States and Trends in the Northwestern Maghreb Drylands, 1998–2008 by del Barrio, Gabriel, Sanjuan, Maria, Hirche, Azziz, Yassin, Mohamed, Ruiz, Alberto, Ouessar, Mohamed, Martinez Valderrama, Jaime, Essifi, Bouajila, Puigdefabregas, Juan

“…States of ecological maturity and temporal trends of drylands in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia north of 28°N are reported for 1998–2008. The input data were…”
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A 1973–2008 Archive of Climate Surfaces for NW Maghreb by Ruiz, Alberto, Sanjuan, Maria, Puigdefabregas, Juan, del Barrio, Gabriel

“…Climate archives are time series. They are used to assess temporal trends of a climate-dependent target variable, and to make climate atlases. A…”
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Comparing Land Degradation and Regeneration Trends in China Drylands by Gabriel Del Barrio, Gao, Zhihai, Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime, Li, Xiaosong, Sanjuan, Maria E, Sun, Bin, Ruiz, Alberto, Wang, Bengyu, Puigdefabregas, Juan

“…The aim of this paper is to offer a statistically sound method to make a precise account of the speed of land degradation and regeneration processes. Most…”
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