Autopistas y crecimiento urbano en el este de la Comunidad de Madrid, sus efectos sobre la avifauna

  1. Nieto Codina, Aurelio
Book:
Geografía y desafíos territoriales en el siglo XXI
  1. Gozálvez Pérez, Vicente (coord.)
  2. Marco Molina, Juan Antonio (coord.)

Publisher: Asociación Española de Geografía

ISBN: 978-84-938551-0-9

Year of publication: 2011

Volume Title: Urbanismo expansivo: de la utopía a la realidad. Comunicaciones

Volume: 2

Pages: 479-488

Congress: Congreso de geógrafos españoles (22. 2011. Alicante)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

It is an evident fact nowadays the increasingly road density as a result of a growing development in the transport network, this subjet is links with urban growth and it is put in appearance in peri-urban areas. In most of the studies that evaluate road effects on biological diversity with a population approach effects, evidence is seriously difficult in relationship with metodology, but this communication presents the effects of previous and subsequent phases to the infrastructure construction (R-2 Madrid) in locations of birds. The «Proyecto Avutarda» in the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Madrid) is trying to improve the knowledge of this subjet: the great bustard (Otis tarda) population, a globally endangered species, in a protected area of central Spain, through time series analysis (1997-2009) of demographic data, including the previous and subsequent phases to the infrastructure construction. The results suggest that the highway has had some negative effects on population spatial use.