Overall Impact of Local and Recreational Fisheries

2015 ◽  
pp. 327-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joao Pedro Barreiros
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Artisanal Fisheries ◽  
Recreational Fishing ◽  
Ne Atlantic ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Fisheries Sustainability ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

This chapter presents and discusses updated information related to fishing in the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean from a perspective that focuses on three main interchangeable and multidisciplinary issues: a) local/artisanal fisheries, b) recreational fishing and c) marine protected areas. A comprehensive introduction is followed by an updated literature review. Perspectives and solutions show that recreational and artisanal fisheries are clearly understudied and possibly have several impacts that are being unmeasured and often unknown. Another major issue is the lack of a serious long term European compromise to standardize these fisheries since a strong political interference does dominate the whole issue. No solution is possible without knowledge. No knowledge is possible if countries within the Mediterranean basin and NE Atlantic are not strongly and apolitically committed to a wider research scale with the overall interest of small fisheries sustainability and maintenance of healthy stocks as a major goal.

scholarly journals Evidence for long‐term prevalence of cucumber vein yellowing virus in Sudan and genetic variation of the virus in Sudan and the Mediterranean Basin

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. 1268-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Desbiez ◽  
P. Caciagli ◽  
C. Wipf‐Scheibel ◽  
P. Millot ◽  
L. Ruiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Yellowing Virus

scholarly journals Threatened plants of arid ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study of the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula

Oryx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 548-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Mendoza-Fernández ◽  
Francisco J. Pérez-García ◽  
Fabián Martínez-Hernández ◽  
José M. Medina-Cazorla ◽  
Juan A. Garrido-Becerra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Arid Ecosystems ◽  
Arid Zones ◽  
Threatened Plants ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Priority Ranking ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

AbstractNetworks of protected areas are one of the main strategies used to address the biodiversity crisis. These should encompass as many species and ecosystems as possible, particularly in territories with high biological diversity, such as the Spanish arid zones. We produce a priority ranking of the arid zones of south-east Spain according to the rarity and richness of their characteristic flora and the level of endangerment. The resulting hierarchy shows that optimal zones for the preservation of the flora are located outside the network of protected areas. In particular, it is important to extend the network and encourage the creation of microreserves in the depression of the River Guadiana Menor (Granada), where there is least protection. This river valley is a particularly important arid site because of its unique flora and fauna, and palaeontological and archaeological findings.

Anin situapproach to the conservation of temperate cereal crop wild relatives in the Mediterranean Basin and Asian centre of diversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jade Phillips ◽  
Katherine Whitehouse ◽  
Nigel Maxted
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Crop Wild Relatives ◽  
Wild Relatives ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Centre Of Diversity ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

AbstractCereal crops are one of the most widely consumed and most valuable crops for humankind. The species have been domesticated for over 10,000 years and as such have lost much of the genetic diversity that is present within their wild relatives. Future breeding efforts will require the use of genetic diversity from crop wild relatives (CWRs) to help improve our cereal crops. This study aims to identify anin situconservation network within the Mediterranean Basin and west Asia for the four cereal crops, barley (HordeumL.), oat (AvenaL.), rye (SecaleL.) and wheat (AegilopsL.,AmblyopyrumL.,TriticumL.). This region is a centre of diversity for these taxa and an area of potentially high genetic diversity, which if left unprotected will not be available for plant breeders to utilize in the future. Presence point data for a total of 90 taxa were collected from GBIF and resulted in 76,343 individual presence points across the 44 countries in the study region. Geographic Information System (GIS) software was used to identify potentialin situreserve networks per crop genepool and for all crops combined. Results indicate a network of 10 locations across the region which would protect over 80% of the taxa. The number one priority reserve is found within the Fertile Crescent region on the border of Israel, Syria and Jordan. This proposed reserve location contains 93 currently protected areas (i.e. National Parks) and as such, it may only be necessary to alter management plans to effectively protect CWR populations. For taxa not found within protected areasex situconservation may be more appropriate and should be implemented as a backup to thein situreserve network.

scholarly journals Long-Term Yields of Switchgrass, Giant Reed, and Miscanthus in the Mediterranean Basin

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1492-1499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efthymia Alexopoulou ◽  
Federica Zanetti ◽  
Danilo Scordia ◽  
Walter Zegada-Lizarazu ◽  
Myrsini Christou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Giant Reed ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

scholarly journals The Iberian Peninsula’s Burning Heart—Long-Term Fire History in the Toledo Mountains (Central Spain)

Fire ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger ◽  
Blarquez ◽  
Pérez-Díaz ◽  
Morales-Molino ◽  
López-Sáez
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Central Spain ◽  
Fire Activity ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
In Fire ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

Long-term fire ecology can help to better understand the major role played by fire in driving vegetation composition and structure over decadal to millennial timescales, along with climate change and human agency, especially in fire-prone areas such as the Mediterranean basin. Investigating past ecosystem dynamics in response to changing fire activity, climate, and land use, and how these landscape drivers interact in the long-term is needed for efficient nature management, protection, and restoration. The Toledo Mountains of central Spain are a mid-elevation mountain complex with scarce current anthropic intervention located on the westernmost edge of the Mediterranean basin. These features provide a perfect setting to study patterns of late Holocene fire activity and landscape transformation. Here, we have combined macroscopic charcoal analysis with palynological data in three peat sequences (El Perro, Brezoso, and Viñuelas mires) to reconstruct fire regimes during recent millennia and their linkages to changes in vegetation, land use, and climatic conditions. During a first phase (5000–3000 cal. BP) characterized by mixed oak woodlands and low anthropogenic impact, climate exerted an evident influence over fire regimes. Later, the data show two phases of increasing human influence dated at 3000–500 cal. BP and 500 cal. BP–present, which translated into significant changes in fire regimes increasingly driven by human activity. These results contribute to prove how fire regimes have changed along with human societies, being more related to land use and less dependent on climatic cycles.

Are wildfires a disaster in the Mediterranean basin? - A review

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juli G. Pausas ◽  
Joan Llovet ◽  
Anselm Rodrigo ◽  
Ramon Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Fire Severity ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Mediterranean Ecosystems ◽  
Human Disturbances ◽  
Erosion Rates ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Soil Losses ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

Evolutionary and paleoecological studies suggest that fires are natural in the Mediterranean basin. However, the important increase in the number of fires and area burned during the 20th century has created the perception that fires are disasters. In the present paper, we review to what extent fires are generating ecological disasters in the Mediterranean basin, in view of current fire regimes and the long-term human pressure on the landscapes. Specifically, we review studies on post-fire plant regeneration and soil losses. The review suggests that although many Mediterranean ecosystems are highly resilient to fire (shrublands and oak forest), some are fire-sensitive (e.g. pine woodlands). Observed erosion rates are, in some cases, relatively high, especially in high fire severity conditions. The sensitive ecosystems (in the sense of showing strong post-fire vegetation changes and soil losses) are mostly of human origin (e.g. extensive pine plantations in old fields). Thus, although many Mediterranean basin plants have traits to cope with fire, a large number of the ecosystems currently found in this region are strongly altered, and may suffer disasters. Post-fire disasters are not the rule, but they may be important under conditions of previous human disturbances.

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