Belén Martín

Prof. Dr. Belén Martín

Department of Forest and Environmental Engineering and Management, MONTES, School of Forest Engineering and Natural Resources, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Academic Career Length

17Years (2010-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 September 2016 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Belén MartínBelén Martín
Belén Martín
Emilio OrtegaEmilio Ortega
Emilio Ortega
IOIsabel Otero
Isabel Otero
RARosa Arce-Ruiz
Rosa Arce-Ruiz

1 May 2017 in Land Use Policy
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Andrea De MontisAndrea De Montis
Andrea De Montis
Belén MartínBelén Martín
Belén Martín
Emilio OrtegaEmilio Ortega
Emilio Ortega
ALAntonio Ledda
Antonio Ledda
VSVittorio Serra
Vittorio Serra
Maintaining ecosystem continuity has become a central element in spatial planning policies. Several authors acknowledge the environmental, also known as landscape, fragmentation due to human action as one of the main causes which have negative effects on biodiversity. The phenomenon consists of the transformation of larger patches of habitat in smaller ones, or fragments, which tend to be more isolated than in the original condition. It is extremely evident in urban areas, including settlements and various transport and mobility infrastructures, whose main ecological effects include loss of habitat, increased mortality of plants, and isolation of animal and vegetal species. In this paper, we assess landscape fragmentation dynamics of six landscape units belonging to two European regions, i.e. Sardinia in Italy (from 2003 to 2008), and Andalusia in Spain (from 2005 to 2009). We developed on three indices: the Infrastructural Fragmentation Index (IFI), the Urban Fragmentation Index (UFI), and the Connectivity Index (CI). We found that coastal areas generally suffer from an higher pressure due to the demand of longer or faster transport infrastructures and new settlements and less fragmented areas tend to show the most relevant dynamics in a sort of convergent pattern. Even though landscape fragmentation and connectivity are intuitively complementary phenomena, in this paper we did not found any statistical evidence of this associative property

1 November 2021 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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EOEmilio Ortega
Emilio Ortega
Belén MartínBelén Martín
Belén Martín
MLMaría Eugenia López-Lambas
María Eugenia López-Lambas
JSJulio A. Soria-Lara
Julio A. Soria-Lara


1 January 2020 in Journal of Transport Geography
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APAntonio Páez
Antonio Páez
ZAZoha Anjum
Zoha Anjum
SDSarah Dickson-Anderson
Sarah Dickson-Anderson
CSCorinne J. Schuster-Wallace
Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace
Belén MartínBelén Martín
Belén Martín
CHChristopher D. Higgins
Christopher D. Higgins