Mitigation strategies for conserving bird diversity under climate change scenarios in Europe: The role of forest naturalization.

ABSTRACT: There are many possible strategies to promote naturalization in anthropogenic landscapes to mitigate global change effects. We combined large-scale databases available for continental Spain on: (1) distribution of breeding birds, (2) forest inventory stands, (3) land-use cover, (4) 18 global climate models recently developed at local scales, and (5) historical and genetically-based information on the distribution of natural versus planted pine forests, to analyze whether back to nature strategies may help to mitigate biodiversity loss due to climate change. We performed the analysis along environmental and ecological gradients of pine forests in Southern Europe. Models suggested that, naturalization strategies, in this case defined by the replacement of planted pine forests and eucalyptus

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Jauregui M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114515 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature