Salt landscapes are those created by the presence, in different forms, of salt water in the environment. This circumstance, inherent to areas close to seas and oceans, is rare and fragile when found inland. But the rarity and fragility are not an obstacle to the existence of a great variety of these landscapes. In the specific case of the inland saltscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, we can find salt marshes, salt flats, salt meadows, salt wadis and salty or saline lagoons, which are easily identifiable in some areas.
The first volume of the mini-series «Iberian Saltscapes» dealt with inland salt making sites of the Iberian Peninsula. On this occasion, attention is paid to other saltscapes: those which exist naturally and which, due to their characteristics, are fragile, valuable and unique ecosystems in the European context. Traditionally little or not at all appreciated, these wetlands are places where the confluence of different factors, from geological to climatic, have produced a different world where plant and animal species have adapted to particularly harsh conditions.
In this book the reader will find a census of inland saline wetlands in Spain and Portugal and a detailed presentation of eight sites representative of these special saltscapes throughout the Iberian Peninsula.
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