La gestió dels espais forestals

• Francisco Lloret ^[1]
  1. [1] Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF)
• Localización: Natura, Ús o Abús?: llibre Blanc de la Gestió de la Natura als Països Catalans / coord. por Ramón Folch, Josep Peñuelas Reixach, David Serrat Congost, Josep Germain i Otzet, 2018, ISBN 978-84-9965-457-7
• Idioma: catalán
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  • The current state of forests in Catalonia denotes a recent abandonment ofagricultural land resulting in successional stages with homogeneous, high density, smalltrees. In the meantime, forest harvesting remains at some extent suffering from a weakposition in the global market. The overall consequences imply a reduction of habitatsfor species requiring open areas, more homogeneity in species composition across theterritory, favouring common species, and higher risk of fire occurrence and intensity. Incontrast, new forests replacing past overexploited land provide habitat for some species,protect soils from erosion, increase C stocks and regulate water and nutrient fluxes. Thisreflects the multiple services provided by forests, that can represent antagonist,synergistic or independent effects, thus requiring cost-benefit analyses in order toimprove forest management in the long-term. This is particularly important to makecompatible biodiversity conservation and provisioning services in a global changecontext in which climate is expected to become in the next future more arid and moreprone to extreme events.