ANALYSIS OF A FL ORISTIC CORRIDOR BETWEEN THE NATURAL PARKS OF SIERRA DE GRAZALEMA AND SIERRA DE LAS NIEVES (CÁDIZ AND MÁLAGA, SPAIN)

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  • Oscar Noel Gavira
Keywords: ecological corridor, ecological connectivity, Sierra del Oreganal, umbrella species, <i>Abies pinsapo</i>, conservation, biogeography

Abstract

Two Andalusian Natural Parks, Sierra de Grazalema and Sierra de las Nieves show rather ecological similarities: geology and edaphology, climatology, fauna, flora, phytosociology and, therefore, biogeography. The mountain range of Sierra del Oreganal-Sierra de los Castillejos connects both Natural Parks and shows a large number of similar ecological patterns to those parks and it seems to be a possible ecological corridor. In order to probe that possibility, selected flora of the three areas has been compared. A high percentage of similarity has been found between the two Natural Parks. A large number of species occur in the analyzed ecological corridor and the most parsimonian hypothesis for explaining that distribution is through this lineal mountain range. At any rate, although the present and past connection is not demonstrated, the mountain range Sierra del Oreganal-Sierra de los Castillejos is shown as the most fitting ecological corridor for the calcicolous fl ora and the middle-high mountain flora of those Natural Parks.

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Oscar Noel Gavira

Universidad de Málaga
How to Cite
Gavira, O. N. (2006). ANALYSIS OF A FL ORISTIC CORRIDOR BETWEEN THE NATURAL PARKS OF SIERRA DE GRAZALEMA AND SIERRA DE LAS NIEVES (CÁDIZ AND MÁLAGA, SPAIN). Anales de Biología, (28), 45–72. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesbio/article/view/27251
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