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Using a landscape scale to approach resources management and farm functions: the case of vanishing wooded structures and small ruminants itinerancy over the agrarian matrix
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The diversity depletion of traditional rural landscapes could be the major
threat of a required new multifunctional rural landscape, as a consequence
of the European and National agrarian policies. The increasing
compactness of woodland and agricultural matrixes has been particularly
promoted by the loss of local regulation (population and farming abandon),
and production intensification of nearest and most fertile soils and thrust
aside of the others. Last six years, the heterogeneity of landscape interface
between the woodland and agricultural matrixes was investigated in three
rural communities of Trás-os-Montes concerning two threatened landscape
process: (1) the vanishing punctual, linear and spatial wooded structures of
agricultural matrix (scattered trees, hedgerows and fences, and woodlots)
and (2) the flocks’ itinerancy of native sheep and goats.
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Castro, José; Castro, Marina (2004). Using a landscape scale to approach resources management and farm functions: the case of vanishing wooded structures and small ruminants itinerancy over the agrarian matrix. In (Pre)Proceedings of the 6th European IFSA Symposium: Farming and Rural Systems Resaerch and Extension. ISBN 972-669-587-2