Delgado Artes, Rafael(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-11-02)
[EN] The general breaking point of rural society and traditional ways of land use that
happened in the second half of the twentieth century, especially since 1960, poses a
new scenario where forest cover has experienced ...
[EN] In the European context, several methodologies have been developed to assess the ecological status and, specifically, the hydromorphological status of running surface waters. Although these methodologies have been ...
[EN] Riparian zones are the paragon of transitional ecosystems, providing critical habitat and ecosystem services that are especially threatened by global change. Following consultation with experts, 10 key challenges were ...
Touchan, Ramzi; Meko, David M.; Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A.; Sánchez Salguero, Raúl; Camarero, J. Julio; Kerchouche, Dalila; Muntan, Elena; Khabcheche, Madjda; Blanco, Juan A.; Rodríguez Morata, Clara; Garófano Gómez, Virginia; Martín, Luis A.; Alfaro Sánchez, Raquel; Garah, Kenza; Hevia, Andrea(Tree-ring soc., 2013)
[EN] This report describes an international summer course, "Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interaction", held in Valsain, Spain, in summer of 2012. The course, with 14 participants from three countries ...
[EN] Poplars establish on alluvial bars within sand and gravel-bed rivers. Alluvial bars also provide particularly suitable habitats for the proliferation of ants. We hypothesized that ants, by modifying substrate structure ...
[EN] The REDAPTA project, "Spaces of Governance for the Adaptation to Global Change in Mediterranean Rivers", developed its activities simultaneously in the Tordera (Catalonia) and Serpis (Valencia Region) river basins. ...
[EN] Climate change and river regulation are negatively impacting riparian vegetation. To evaluate these impacts, process-based models are preferred over data-driven approaches. However, they require extensive knowledge ...
Lewerentz, Anne; Egger, Gregory; Householder, J. Ethan; Reid, Brian; Braund, Andreas Ch; Garófano-Gómez, Virginia(Elsevier, 2019-02)
[EN] European willows (Salicaceae) are pioneer species in temperate zone floodplains. The species are considered invasive and introduction can lead to substantial alteration of floodplain vegetation communities and ecosystem ...
Habitat suitability models (HSM) are concerned with the abundance or distribution of species as a consequence of interactions with the physical environment. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) were used to model brown trout ...
Habitat degradation has reduced the complexity of the Mediterranean streams in Spain and contributed to decreasing the historical range of the endangered Júcar nase, Parachondrostoma arrigonis. This species is endemic to ...
Riparian ecosystems are required to be preserved to achieve a good ecological status. The Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) specifically supports the assessment of new management tools that allow the European Member ...
González del Tánago, Marta; Martínez-Fernández, Vanesa; Aguiar, Francisca C.; Bertoldi, Walter; Dufour, Simon; García de Jalón, Diego; Garófano-Gómez, Virginia; Mandzukovski, Dejan; Rodríguez-González, Patricia María(Elsevier, 2021-08-15)
[EN] River hydromorphology has long been subjected to huge anthropogenic pressures with severe negative impacts on related ecosystems¿ functioning and water quality. Therefore, improving river hydromorphological conditions ...
Delgado Artes, Rafael; Garófano-Gómez, Virginia; Oliver Villanueva, José Vicente; Rojas Briales, Eduardo(Elsevier, 2022-03)
[EN] The second half of the 20th century has been characterised by the rural abandonment in several regions of the Mediterranean basin. The general collapse of traditional agriculture and livestock activities brought about ...
En el llibre es fa un diagnóstic ecològic de les riberes, s'analitzen l'evolució històrica dels cabals circulants i la influència d'aquestos sobre les comunitats vegetals de ribera, i s'apunten una sèrie d'actuacions per ...
[EN] Within riparian corridors, Salicaceae trees and shrubs affect hydrogeomorphic processes and lead to the formation of wooded fluvial landforms. These trees form dense stands and enhance plant anchorage, as grouped ...
González, Eduardo; Martínez-Fernández, Vanesa; Shafroth, Patrick B; Sher, Anna A; Henry, Annie L; Garófano-Gómez, Virginia; Corenblit, Dov(Elsevier, 2018-07-15)
[EN] Human activities on floodplains have severely disrupted the regeneration of foundation riparian shrub and tree species of the Salicaceae family (Populus and Salix spp.) throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Restoration ...
García-Arias, Alicia; Francés, F.; Morales de la Cruz, Marco Vinicio; Real Llanderal, Joaquín; Vallés Morán, F. J.; Garófano-Gómez, Virginia; Martinez-Capel, Francisco(Wiley, 2014-04)
Biotic and abiotic interactions between the riparian zone and the river determine relevant hydrological processes and exert control over riparian and bordering upland vegetation types. Vegetation growth and development are ...
Garófano Gómez, Virginia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-06-03)
Los corredores riparios en ambientes semiáridos mediterráneos son ecosistemas de gran biodiversidad y
complejidad. En ellos confluyen una gran variedad de perturbaciones naturales capaces de crear un mosaico
espacial ...
[EN] 1. Riparian zones are vital areas of interaction between land and rivers and are often degraded by several pressures such as urbanisation, intensive agriculture and river engineering works. 2. This policy brief provides ...
[EN] For a period of two years (November 2011 - November 2013), a monitoring of the Audouin¿s gull was performed at the Port of Gandia (Valencia), writing down all the plastic rings observed and aimed at determining the ...