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- Várzea, Portugal
- Várzea Portugal: Description of site and main causes of degradation
- Várzea Portugal: Adaptation strategies for changing conditions
- Várzea Portugal: Structural and functional changes
- Várzea Portugal: Drivers of change
- Várzea, Portugal: Critical changes preceding a catastrophic shift
- Várzea, Portugal: Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- Várzea, Portugal: Stakeholder workshop to evaluate SLM guidelines
- Castelsaraceno, Italy
- Castelsaraceno, Italy: Description of site and main causes of degradation
- Castelsaraceno, Italy: Adaptation strategies for changing conditions
- Castelsaraceno, Italy: Structural and functional changes
- Castelsaraceno, Italy: Drivers of change
- Castelsaraceno, Italy: Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- Castelsaraceno, Italy: Stakeholder workshop to evaluate SLM guidelines
- Albatera, Spain
- Albatera, Spain: Description of site and main causes of degradation
- Albatera, Spain: Adaptation strategies for changing conditions
- Albatera, Spain: Structural and functional changes
- Albatera, Spain: Drivers of change
- Albatera, Spain: Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- Albatera & Ayora, Spain: Stakeholder workshop to evaluate SLM guidelines
- Ayora, Spain
- Ayora, Spain: Description of site and main causes of degradation
- Ayora, Spain: Adaptation strategies for changing conditions
- Ayora, Spain: Structural and functional changes
- Ayora, Spain: Drivers of change
- Ayora, Spain: Critical changes preceding a catastrophic shift
- Ayora, Spain: Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- Albatera & Ayora, Spain: Stakeholder workshop to evaluate SLM guidelines
- Messara, Greece
- Messara, Greece: Description of site and main causes of degradation
- Messara, Greece: Adaptation strategies for changing conditions
- Messara, Greece: Structural and functional changes
- Messara, Greece: Drivers of change
- Messara, Greece: Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- Messara, Greece: Stakeholder workshop to evaluate SLM guidelines and scenario analysis
- Randi Forest, Cyprus
- Randi Forest, Cyprus: Description of site and main causes of degradation
- Randi Forest, Cyprus: Adaptation strategies for changing conditions
- Randi Forest, Cyprus: Structural and functional changes
- Randi Forest, Cyprus: Drivers of change
- Randi Forest, Cyprus: Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- Randi Forest, Cyprus: Stakeholder workshop to evaluate SLM guidelines and scenario analysis
- Sudden ecosystem shifts
- Soil & plant processes
- Critical changes preceding a catastrophic shift
- Effects of recurrent fire on soil nutrients and functioning
- Measurement of stress gradient - fire
- Impact of increasing fire recurrence on soil quality
- References
- Measurement of stress gradient - grazing
- Effects of grazing stress on soil quality and plant performance
- Measurement of drought stress
- Effects of drought stress on soil quality, plant performance and soil moisture
- Study sites and target species
- Potential for sudden shifts in ecosystems
- The role of increasing environmental pressure in triggering sudden shifts
- Dryland restoration dynamics and thresholds as a function of plant pattern and diversity
- References
- Objectives, research questions and approach
- Manipulating dryland plant communities in mesocosms
- Modelling the role of ecohydrological feedbacks on degradation reversal
- The role of patch size, diversity and spatial pattern in dryland restoration
- The role of ecohydrological feedbacks in dryland degradation reversal
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Simulated pressures and ecosystem responses
- References
- Dryland responses to grazing and droughts
- Dryland response to fire
- Dryland response to changes in rainfall intermittency
- Including ecohydrological feedbacks between vegetation pattern and resource redistribution
- Including plant-plant interactions along drought and grazing gradients
- Summary conclusions
- Sharing the models
- Critical changes preceding a catastrophic shift
- Better management
- Indicators of critical thresholds
- Restoration potential for preventing and reversing regime shifts
- A method for resilience assessment
- References
- Resilience and regime shifts
- Objectives of the Resilience Assessment Tool
- Design of the Resilience Assessment Tool
- Results: General information on the land management system
- Results: Perception and claims of land users
- Results: Evolution of the system
- Results: Shocks and disturbances
- Resilience Assessment Tool
- Application of the Resilience Assessment Tool
- Guidelines for natural resource managers
- Development of the guidelines
- Guidelines for land managers: the forest fire context_EN
- Guidelines for land managers: the forest fire context_ES
- Guidelines for land managers: the forest fire context_GR
- Guidelines for land managers: the forest fire context_IT
- Guidelines for land managers: the forest fire context_PT
- Guidelines for land managers: the land abandonment context_EN
- Guidelines for land managers: the land abandonment context_ES
- Guidelines for land managers: the land abandonment context_GR
- Guidelines for land managers: the land abandonment context_IT
- Guidelines for land managers: the land abandonment context_PT
- Guidelines for land managers: the overgrazing context_EN
- Guidelines for land managers: the overgrazing context_ES
- Guidelines for land managers: the overgrazing context_GR
- Guidelines for land managers: the overgrazing context_IT
- Guidelines for land managers: the overgrazing context_PT
- Socio-ecological effectiveness of land management
- References
- Conceptualising socio-ecological effectiveness of land management
- Modelling socio-ecological effectiveness of land management
- Step 1: Defining managment scenarios
- Step 2: Assessing ecological impacts of land management
- Step 3: Estimating economic impacts of land management
- Step 4: Uncertainty analysis
- Step 5: Evaluating socio-ecological effectiveness
- Outlook
- Moving towards land degradation neutrality
- Multi-scale evaluation with policy makers