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  title info:
    title: Large-scale Livestock Grazing
    sub title: A Management Tool for Nature Conservation
  name:
    name part: Plachter, Harald.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hampicke, Ulrich.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 478 p. online resource.
  abstract: One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).The development of these landscapes during the past decades has been characterized by an ongoing intensification of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures becoming fallow as a result of changing economic conditions on the other hand. Since species adapted to open and semi-open landscapes contribute to biodiversity in Europe in a major way, this development is of great concern to nature conservation. In several countries largescale, nature-adapted pastoral systems have been recognized as one solution to this problem. These systems could offer an alternative to industrial livestock raising and keep a high biodiversity on the landscape level. Against the background of livestock diseases such as BSE and Foot and Mouth Disease and the efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU by changing the criteria for agricultural subsidies, these concepts gain particular significance.They could also represent an alternative to the established, costly habitat management tools.
  table of contents: Livestock Grazing and Nature Conservation Objectives in Europe -- Extensive Livestock Farming #x2013; an Alternative Form of Nature Conservation Management? -- The Areas of Investigation -- Method Development -- Microscale Effects -- Mesoscale Effects -- Effects on Landscape Level -- Implementation of Large-Scale Grazing -- Nature Conservation Accounting for Large-Scale Livestock Grazing.
  note: edited by Harald Plachter, Ulrich Hampicke.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Applied ecology
  subject:
    topic: Landscape ecology
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  subject:
    topic: Applied Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Landscape Ecology
  classification: QE38
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540686675
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68667-5
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    record creation date: 100715
    record change date: 20151204151157.0
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