Large-scale Livestock Grazing A Management Tool for Nature Conservation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Plachter, Harald (Editor), Hampicke, Ulrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Environment.; Geobiology.; Geography.; Applied ecology.; Landscape ecology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Biogeosciences.; Geography, general.; Applied Ecology.; Landscape Ecology.

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 ong...

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.