Conservació i degradació de sòls a les àrees de muntanya en procés d'abandonament
The reduction of agrarian land in Mediterranean Europe has produced a large number of marginal zones, most of them located in mountainous areas. In fact, there has been a decrease of population in Catalan rural areas for the last one hundred fifteen years. This depopulation process has affected dire...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2002 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | catalán |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:38232 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/38232 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sòls Erosió del sòl |
| Sumario: | The reduction of agrarian land in Mediterranean Europe has produced a large number of marginal zones, most of them located in mountainous areas. In fact, there has been a decrease of population in Catalan rural areas for the last one hundred fifteen years. This depopulation process has affected directly the abandonment of agrarian land (LASANTA, 1996) and, at the same time, it has favoured new dynamics, specially in the Pyrenees: the colonisation of natural vegetation over these fields and the increase of soil degradation processes. In this thesis we will examine these issues with more detail focusing on the case of the middle and high Oriental Pyrenees (Natural Park of Cadí-Moixeró, Catalonia, Spain). Soil degradation and afforestation processes were found in the field work carried out in this area, our results derive from processing the data gathered using a Geographical Information System. This methodology has enabled us to relate different variables and show the existence of an erosive and soil fertility change processes in the abandoned fields, crops, grasslands and forests, according to land use intensity. We have applied some techniques in three directions: spatial analisys with GIS, soil and biomass analysis and oral sources. The global methodology relation these imputs in a integrated landscape analysis. The most important conclusions of these research are: An ordered soil fertility index (COBERTERA, 1993) where the first land use is the highest value; Non-eroded abandoned fields = high intensity graslands (<1800m). |
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