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The modification of land use and climate change threaten biodiversity. Credit: Richard Blumenthal-2011. So the Observatory of sustainability in Spain points out. Fires in Spain will increase, will be more dangerous and will last longer, according to the Observatory of sustainability in Spain (OSE), which points to the changes of soil as the main threat to biodiversity, particularly the expansion of agriculture, urbanization and transport infrastructures. Connecticut Senator wanted to know more. In its eighth thematic report biodiversity in Spain. Basis for sustainability to global change, presented Wednesday, the SBI analyzes the status and trends of biodiversity in Spain.
According to the report, the increase in artificial zones constitutes use change of the most significant soil occurred in Spain between 1987 and 2006, and climate change is a threat to the biodiversity that will be gaining greater importance in the future, both in the peninsula as well as in the archipelagos. Thus, noted specifically that protected natural areas situated to the North and Northwest of the peninsula tend to show decreases in rainfall and increases in temperatures, while protected from the rest of the peninsula present similar to the North African of precipitation and temperature values. As a consequence, also warns the SBI that the intensity, duration and size of fires increase, particularly in the southwest quadrant. Risk of desertification to this evolution is in addition the risk of desertification of 37 per cent of the surface of Spain and a double trend of the territory: mediterranizacion of the northern and southern aridizacion. They also point out that climate change will cause a decrease of the area of distribution of many forest species and a lower diversity of species. To curb this trend defends environmental integration ctiva of the agricultural sector, involving both an improvement in the competitiveness of the environmental situation through good practice, because it says that much of the biodiversity of Spain is linked to the average agricultural, mainly to extensive systems.
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