Groundwater Abstraction has Caused Extensive Ecological Damage to the Doñana World Heritage Site, Spain

• Published in: Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.) Vol. 44; no. 2; p. 20
• Main Authors: Green, Andy J., Guardiola-Albert, Carolina, Bravo-Utrera, Miguel Ángel, Bustamante, Javier, Camacho, Antonio, Camacho, Carlos, Contreras-Arribas, Eva, Espinar, José L., Gil-Gil, Teresa, Gomez-Mestre, Iván, Heredia-Díaz, Javier, Kohfahl, Claus, Negro, Juan José, Olías, Manuel, Revilla, Eloy, Rodríguez-González, Patricia M., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Miguel, Ruíz-Bermudo, Fernando, Santamaría, Luis, Schmidt, Guido, Serrano-Reina, José Antonio, Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.02.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agrochemicals; Aquifers; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cereal crops; Climate change; Coastal Sciences; Crops; Damage; Drawdown; Ecological effects; Ecology; Ecosystems; ecotones; Environmental Management; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Grey literature; Groundwater; Groundwater depletion; groundwater extraction; Groundwater levels; Hydraulic gradient; Hydrogeology; Hydrology; Intermittent lakes; irrigation; Landscape Ecology; Life Sciences; Literature reviews; Marshes; Methodology; National parks; Original Research Article; Ponds; Precipitation; rice; Risk assessment; River ecology; Spain; Stakeholders; Systematic review; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; vegetation; water table; Wetlands; World Heritage Areas; Guadalquivir River; Spain; Mediterranean wetland; World Heritage; Water pollution; Impact evaluation; Groundwater overexploitation; Ramsar Site

Acreman et al. (Wetlands 42:63, 2022 ) reviewed evidence for ecological damage to the Doñana wetlands (UNESCO World Heritage Site [WHS] and Ramsar site), Spain, associated with intensification of groundwater use, particularly for agriculture. Acreman et al. presented a multistep methodology for evid...