Traditional Free-Ranging Livestock Farming as a Management Strategy for Biological and Cultural Landscape Diversity: A Case from the Southern Apennines

Traditional Free-Ranging Livestock Farming as a Management Strategy for Biological and Cultural Landscape Diversity: A Case from the Southern Apennines

Mediterranean mountain landscapes are undergoing a widespread phenomenon of abandonment. This brings, as a consequence, the loss of traditional land use practices, such as transhumant pastoralism, as well as shrub and wood encroachment, with repercussions on the biodiversity associated with semi-ope...

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Main Authors: Claudia Troiano, Maria Buglione, Simona Petrelli, Sofia Belardinelli, Antonino De Natale, Jens-Christian Svenning, Domenico Fulgione
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Land
Subjects:
transhumance
traditional pastoralism
free-ranging livestock
rural abandonment
land use change
Southern Apennines
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/9/957

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