Linking landscape futures with biodiversity conservation strategies in northwest Iberia â A simulation study combining surrogates with a spatio-temporal modelling approach
The most prominent factors inducing landscape change in the rural regions of south west Europe are depopulation and the associated socio-ecological modifications. The aim of this work was to assess the future implications of these processes on land use/land cover and biodiversity in northwest Iberia. To achieve our goal, we developed a virtual spatially explicit dynamic model to simulate regional socio-ecological dynamics.