Aplicación de los paisajes físicogeográficos en un sector de la cordillera ibéricala cuenca del río Martín (Aragón, España)
- Iván Franch-Pardo
- Ángel Guadalupe Priego-Santander
- Manuel Bollo-Manent
- Luis Cancer-Pomar
- Francisco Bautista-Zúñiga
ISSN: 0378-1844
Year of publication: 2015
Volume: 40
Issue: 6
Pages: 381-389
Type: Article
More publications in: Interciencia: Revista de ciencia y tecnología de América
Abstract
Following the entry into force of the European Landscape Convention on March 1st 2004, various Spanish autonomous communities began to develop their landscape studies. The studies exhibit remarkable consistency in their concept of landscape, and although the methodologies differ significantly, they largely converge in a dual-analysis of the landscape: as a visual variable and under a geosystems approach. In this paper, we propose physico-geographic landscape-maps based on the Complex Physical Geography, as a geo-systems methodology applicable to the study of Spanish landscapes. To illustrate this, we applied the methodology to the basin of Martín River (Aragón, Spain) in the Iberian Range, which is an area recognized as an important environmental area but lacking detailed study. We used this methodology to develop a map that shows the heterogeneity of the region’s geophysical landscapes, which in turn explains the spatial distribution of ecological variables that influence the region’s potential in terms of future land-use.