Can local policy options reverse the decline process of small and marginalized rural areas influenced by global change?

A Tenza-Peral, I Pérez-Ibarra, A Breceda… - … Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Rural depopulation generates deep territorial imbalances, threats regional food security,
and causes the irreversible loss of culture and local institutions that manage natural …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting current and future species distribution of the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Shanghai, China

Y Diao, Q Zhao, Y Weng, Z Huang, Y Wu, B Gu… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has caused drastic changes in urban ecosystems, resulting in various
urgent management needs from mitigating biodiversity loss to preventing human-wildlife …

Understanding the decline and resilience loss of a long-lived social-ecological system: insights from system dynamics

A Tenza, I Pérez, J Martínez-Fernández, A Giménez - Ecology and Society, 2017 - JSTOR
Collapse of social-ecological systems (SESs) is a common process in human history.
Depletion of natural resources, scarcity of human capital, or both, is/are common pathways …

Dynamic integration of sustainability indicators in insular socio-ecological systems

I Banos-González, J Martínez-Fernández… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The sustainability assessment on socio-ecological systems requires a systemic perspective
in order to address the close relationships between the environmental and socio-economic …

[PDF][PDF] Tools for sustainability assessment in island socio-ecological systems: an application to the Canary Islands

I Banos-González… - Island Studies …, 2015 - islandstudiesjournal.org
An integral dynamic model, in combination with other methods (indicators, policy and
scenario analysis), is presented as a tool for sustainability assessment in island socio …

From troubles to solutions: conservation of Mediterranean tortoises under global change

E Graciá, J Martínez-Fernández, A Golubovic… - 2020 - zaguan.unizar.es
Chelonians are among the animal groups with the poorest conservation status. Since
tortoises are long-lived species that need very long time to reach sexual maturity, they are …

Sustainability of small-scale social-ecological systems in arid environments: trade-off and synergies of global and regional changes

A Tenza, J Martínez-Fernández, I Pérez-Ibarra… - Sustainability …, 2019 - Springer
The sustainability of small-scale social-ecological systems (SESs) in drylands is challenged
by external socio-economic and environmental drivers of change that interact both with one …

A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modeling

RC Rodríguez-Caro, T Wiegand, ER White… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Survival is a key parameter in species' management and conservation. Most methods for
estimating survival require time series data, large sample sizes and, overall, costly …

Trade in spur-thighed tortoises Testudo graeca in Morocco: volumes, value and variation between markets

V Nijman, D Bergin - Amphibia-reptilia, 2017 - brill.com
Until the late 1970s spur-thighed tortoises Testudo graeca, endemic to the Mediterranean
region, were exported from range countries in large volumes for the pet trade. Testudo …

Dynamic modelling of the potential habitat loss of endangered species: the case of the Canarian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata fuerteventurae)

I Banos-González, C Terrer… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
In this work, we apply a dynamic modelling approach to analyse the habitat loss of the
Canarian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata fuerteventurae). This tool allows us to …