Resumen de Filling the gaps in research, monitoring, management and social connection
Mountain ranges offer extraordinary opportunities to conduct research and monitor global change. Starting with a detailed analysis of the geographical setting, ecological dynamics and the history of human management, in this book, we focus on the uniqueness of the natural heritage of Sierra Nevada in both a historical and a global-change context. The 24 chapters of this book provide a full review of the diagnosis of the health status of Sierra Nevada ecosystems. All the evidence presented in this book reinforces our underlying idea of Sierra Nevada as a unique biophysical, historical and socio-economic laboratory and observatory of global change. This mountain is also of strategic importance as a provider of ecosystem services within the bounds of the National Park as well as for the surrounding region. This last chapter provides a critical review of what we have done so far, and what still needs to be done to improve research, monitoring, use of new technological tools (remote sensors, artificial intelligence, virtual research environments), user-oriented solutions and knowledge mobilization. The chapter ends with a final proposal: a mountain of all and for all, a joint journey of nature and people towards the mountain community.
