Integrating multiple landscape management strategies to optimise conservation under climate and planning scenarios: a case study in the Iberian Peninsula

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dc.contributor.authorCánibe Iglesias, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorHermoso, Virgilio
dc.contributor.authorAzevedo, João C.
dc.contributor.authorCampos, João C.
dc.contributor.authorSalgado-Rojas, José
dc.contributor.authorSil, Ângelo
dc.contributor.authorRegos Sanz, Adrián
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-08T11:00:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-08T11:00:57Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractGlobal change demands dynamic landscape management that integrates different strategies (e.g. promoting rewilding or traditional farming practices) to address the impact of climate and land use change. Planning for management strategies individually can lead to severe trade-offs between objectives, high opportunity costs and challenging implementation. Integrated management plans are needed to optimise the combination of multiple management strategies. We used the multi-action planning tool ‘Prioriactions’ to prioritise the spatial allocation of four management strategies (Afforestation, Rewilding, Farmland Return and Agroforestry Return) in the Meseta Ibérica transboundary Biosphere Reserve. We aimed to achieve targets for conservation of species suitable area and ecosystem services supply while minimising fire hazard under different climate scenarios. We tested this approach under contrasting planning scenarios depicting different management priorities (Equally Weighted, Forest Maximising and Open Maximising). By integrating multiple management strategies, we could achieve management goals for biodiversity and ecosystem services under different planning scenarios, minimising trade-offs and deriving recommendations easier to uptake. The spatial allocation and extent of management strategies varied according to climate change and planning scenarios. Afforestation was needed when putting more priority on forest species and carbon sequestration, while more Farmland Return was allocated when preserving open habitat species and agriculture. Fire hazard was higher in Rewilding areas and lower in Farmland Return and Agroforestry Return areas. The novelty of our approach lies in its capacity to combine different management strategies and provide an optimised spatial arrangement based on management features, making it suitable for planning in dynamic and complex environments where multiple pressures and objectives must be considered.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported grant PCI2022-135080-2 funded by AEI and the European Union NextGenerationEU, portuguese national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC): CIMO, UIDB/00690/2020 (https://doi. org/10.54499/UIDB/00690/2020) and UIDP/00690/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/00690/2020); and SusTEC, LA/P/ 0007/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0007/2020). AR was supported by the ‘Juan de la Cierva’ and ‘Ramon y Cajal’ fellowship programs of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (IJC2019-041033-I and RYC2022-036822-I). AS ˆ received support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through Ph.D. Grant SFRH/BD/132838/2017, funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, and by the European Social Fund — Operational Program Human Capital within the 2014–2020 EU Strategic Framework; and the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101060415, for the project “SELINA — Science for evidence-based and sustainable decisions about natural capital”. BIOPOLIS receives institutional funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement Number 857251. Most spatial input data was created during the “FireSmart” project (PCIF/MOG/0083/2017).
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101742
dc.identifier.issn2212-0416
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/470826
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.isformatofReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101742
dc.relation.ispartofEcosystem Services, 2025, vol. 74, art. 101742
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101060415/EU/SELINA
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/857251/EU/BIOPOLIS
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2025
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectEcosystem services
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectSystematic Conservation Planning
dc.subjectMultiobjective Management
dc.subjectManagement strategies
dc.subjectIntegrated Planning
dc.titleIntegrating multiple landscape management strategies to optimise conservation under climate and planning scenarios: a case study in the Iberian Peninsula
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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