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The Evolution of Forest Landscapes in Spain’s Central Mountain Range: Different Forests for Different Traditional Uses

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The main objective of this chapter is to characterize the different phases of forestry uses and their impact of forest dynamics on the northern and southern slopes of the Somosierra and Ayllón mountain ranges (Madrid-Segovia, Spain). Thus, we attempt to define long-term models reflecting forest dynamics. To this end, there is a vital need to break down our large study area into smaller zones, known in Spanish as “montes”, and to define in each of these the current features of their vegetation and to identify the historical uses and exploitation systems that have shaped them.

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    Monte is the most common Spanish term used to define forest areas. There are two problems: one is that it has multiple meanings, as it can also be used to refer to mountain; the other is its lack of accuracy, as it can be used to refer to woodlands and scrublands, and even to pastures, barren lands and dunes. On the other hand, its major advantage is that its flexibility allows it to include all form of forests and woods in the widest sense.

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    This area was known as Castile’s Extremadura, which constituted a no-man’s-land from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, with little population and which served as a border the Christian Kingdoms to the north of the peninsula and the Muslim ones to the south. But there had been a stable human population in the area (Franco Múgica et al. 1998).

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  1. Geography Department, Autónoma University, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    N. López Estébanez, G. Gomez Mediavilla, F. Allende Álvarez & E. Sáez Pombo

  2. Department of Regional Geographic Analysis and Physical Geography, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

    G. Madrazo García de Lomana

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López Estébanez, N., Gomez Mediavilla, G., Madrazo García de Lomana, G., Allende Álvarez, F., Sáez Pombo, E. (2013). The Evolution of Forest Landscapes in Spain’s Central Mountain Range: Different Forests for Different Traditional Uses. In: Rotherham, I. (eds) Cultural Severance and the Environment. Environmental History, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6159-9_11

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