Publications by authors named "Miguel Mallo"
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluates how locals and tourists perceive environmental changes in the Cap de Creus Marine Protected Area in Spain to inform management strategies.
- Researchers conducted interviews with locals to identify perceived changes, followed by a survey of 427 participants, revealing a greater concern for economic over environmental issues.
- Findings show both locals and tourists noted environmental decline, but locals reported stronger feelings of deterioration, emphasizing the need for ongoing monitoring of marine protection effectiveness.
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- There is a lack of extensive research on the health, historical ecology, and carbon sequestration abilities of the coral species Corallium rubrum in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
- The study reconstructed trends in key population parameters and assessed changes in carbon sequestration, revealing that morphometric measurements of C. rubrum declined until the 1990s but showed signs of recovery in the 2000s, with average values surpassing those from the 1960s in the Ligurian Sea.
- However, the study faced limitations due to scarce quantitative data before the 1990s and a focus on specific protected areas, leaving a gap in understanding the broader recovery trends in different marine contexts.
Local indicators of climate change: The potential contribution of local knowledge to climate research.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Clim Change
January 2016
Local knowledge has been proposed as a place-based tool to ground-truth climate models and to narrow their geographic sensitivity. To assess the potential role of local knowledge in our quest to understand better climate change and its impacts, we first need to critically review the strengths and weaknesses of local knowledge of climate change and the potential complementarity with scientific knowledge. With this aim, we conducted a systematic, quantitative meta-analysis of published peer-reviewed documents reporting local indicators of climate change (including both local observations of climate change and observed impacts on the biophysical and the social systems).
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