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Global Change and Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems pp 457–470Cite as

Global Environmental Change to and the Future of Mediterranean Forest Avifauna

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 117))

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The antiquity and intensity of human colonization and exploitation of Mediterranean countries (Naveh and Dan, 1973; Le Houérou, 1981) has caused profound changes in the distribution and composition of their forests and associated fauna (Blondel, 1986: Purroy et al., 1990; Tellería, 1992). Human use (Le Houérou, 1981) and the physiographic complexity of this region (Bradbury, 1981) have led to highly diversified and heterogeneous landscapes, in which the reduction and fragmentation of the original forests is the predominant note. Land-use changes produced by human activity are a fundamental component of global change (Meyer and Turner, 1992; Vitousek. 1992). Land-use alterations take two main forms: land conversion and land modification (Meyer and Turner, 1992). In the Mediterranean basin, the duration and intensity of human land use has led to widespread processes of habitat modification and conversion, to the point where land use changes may perhaps be considered as the fundamental component of the recent past environmental change in the region.

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    José M. Moreno

  2. Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, USA

    Walter C. Oechel

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Santos, T., Tellería, J.L. (1995). Global Environmental Change to and the Future of Mediterranean Forest Avifauna. In: Moreno, J.M., Oechel, W.C. (eds) Global Change and Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 117. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4186-7_22

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