Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

2023

Total budget:

150.493,70 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

112.870,48 €

Climate change mitigation and adaptation, reversing biodiversity loss and food security are three of the main challenges facing humanity that the project will address on a territorial scale, in the agricultural and forestry mosaic of Campo de Montiel.

To this end, it will produce replicable models aimed at increasing resilience and the capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change through conservation and restoration actions in forest systems and agroecosystems.

The objectives and actions of this project will contribute directly to the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (PNACC) 2021-2030 of Spain and to the EU strategies on Biodiversity for 2030, Farm to Table Strategy and the Forestry Strategy for 2030, as well as to the new European Law on Nature Restoration.

The main objective of this project is to increase the resilience and capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change in Campo de Montiel through conservation and restoration actions of forest systems and agroecosystems.

To achieve this, it pursues the following specific goals:

• Diagnose the ecological status of Campo de Montiel.
• Establish a replicable model of Mediterranean forest management aimed at increasing resilience, adaptation and biodiversity levels.
• To evaluate the potential of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforestations to store carbon and favor the natural regeneration of the Mediterranean forest.
• Design a network of hedgerows and forest islands in agricultural habitat to increase ecological connectivity, biodiversity and resilience.

• Characterization of land use in the territory and its changes.
• Identification of relevant biodiversity areas.
• Evaluation of the ecological connectivity of the landscape.
• Evaluation of the structure and composition of forest stands.
• Evaluation of the outcome of silvicultural practices on vegetation establishment and growth.
• Evaluation of faunal enrichment of forest stands.
• Evaluation of the structure and composition of reforestations.
• Evaluation of the effects of silvicultural practices on the growth of planted trees and recruitment of woody plants.
• Modeling success factors of planted hedgerow establishment.
• Evaluation of spontaneous recruitment in planted hedgerows.
• Prioritization of areas to locate the network of hedgerows and forest islands.
• Dissemination and communication of the project.