Changes in land use and landscape dynamics in mountains of northern Europe: challenges for science, management and conservation

Setten, Gunhild; Austrheim, Gunnar

doi:10.1080/21513732.2012.738094

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“…Land-use change is considered one of the most important reasons for the emergence of TBDs [ 20 , 63 ], indicating that rationalization processes and structural changes in agriculture, following changed agricultural practices, presently have a strong effect on tick survival and dispersion. In Norway, the number of grazing animals in outfield pastures has been reduced by close to 50% over the past six decades, while wild cervid populations have increased dramatically [ 64 ]. This gradual change from grazing livestock to browsing herbivores, attributed to climatic and vegetation changes including shrub encroachment of previous pasture lands and coastal meadows, increases the abundance of ticks [ 20 , 29 , 65 ].…”

Section: Effects Of Societal and Structural Factors On Tick Occurrmentioning

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“…Many regions in Europe are currently undergoing rapid alterations in land-use, and diminishing livestock-pasture management and fodder harvesting have resulted in ongoing shrub encroachment across vast areas [ 29 , 64 , 65 ]. Some of the increased forest cover is intentional, and subsidized through EU reforestation schemes to improve ecosystem services, such as biodiversity and carbon sequestration [ 29 ].…”

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A Mini-Review of Ixodes Ticks Climate Sensitive Infection Dispersion Risk in the Nordic Region

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Hovelsrud

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Climate change in the Nordic countries is projected to lead to both wetter and warmer seasons. This, in combination with associated vegetation changes and increased animal migration, increases the potential incidence of tick-borne diseases (TBD) where already occurring, and emergence in new places. At the same time, vegetation and animal management influence tick habitat and transmission risks. In this paper, we review the literature on Ixodes ricinus, the primary vector for TBD. Current and projected distribution changes and associated disease transmission risks are related to climate constraints and climate change, and this risk is discussed in the specific context of reindeer management. Our results indicate that climatic limitations for vectors and hosts, and environmental and societal/institutional conditions will have a significant role in determining the spreading of climate-sensitive infections (CSIs) under a changing climate. Management emerges as an important regulatory “tool” for tick and/or risk for disease transfer. In particular, shrub encroachment, and pasture and animal management, are important. The results underscore the need to take a seasonal view of TBD risks, such as (1) grazing and migratory (host) animal presence, (2) tick (vector) activity, (3) climate and vegetation, and (4) land and animal management, which all have seasonal cycles that may or may not coincide with different consequences of climate change on CSI migration. We conclude that risk management must be coordinated across the regions, and with other land-use management plans related to climate mitigation or food production to understand and address the changes in CSI risks.

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Section: Effects Of Societal and Structural Factors On Tick Occurrmentioning

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A Mini-Review of Ixodes Ticks Climate Sensitive Infection Dispersion Risk in the Nordic Region

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“…Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3508 2 of 18 Climate changes affect the establishment, growth, and mortality of trees and other woody vegetation [5][6][7][8], and the effects might be more pronounced in the transition zones between the boreal and alpine zone (i.e., the treeline ecotone), where trees grow at their tolerance limit in terms of temperature compared to productive forests at lower elevations [9,10]. Therefore, in the treeline ecotone, even a moderate increase in temperature or change in precipitation might lead to the increased growth of existing trees and promote the establishment of pioneer trees in currently treeless areas [11,12].…”

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“…Considering the large areas in play, the decline in summer farming and herbivory can have a substantial effect on the biomass and carbon stocks in highelevation forests. Previous research seeking to disentangle and quantify the importance of the different factors affecting the treeline ecotone has highlighted the complexity of the causal relationships of treeline dynamics [5,[17][18][19]. Even though both climate and herbivory have been suggested as important factors, they only explain a small proportion of the variation in the observed changes in the treeline ecotone.…”

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Mapping and Estimating Aboveground Biomass in an Alpine Treeline Ecotone under Model-Based Inference

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Due to climate change, treelines are moving to higher elevations and latitudes. The estimation of biomass of trees and shrubs advancing into alpine areas is necessary for carbon reporting. Remotely sensed (RS) data have previously been utilised extensively for the estimation of forest variables such as tree height, volume, basal area, and aboveground biomass (AGB) in various forest types. Model-based inference is found to be efficient for the estimation of forest attributes using auxiliary RS data, and this study focused on testing model-based estimations of AGB in the treeline ecotone using an area-based approach. Shrubs (Salix spp., Betula nana) and trees (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii, Sorbus aucuparia, Populus tremula, Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies) with heights up to about five meters constituted the AGB components. The study was carried out in a treeline ecotone in Hol, southern Norway, using field plots and point cloud data obtained from airborne laser scanning (ALS) and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP). The field data were acquired for two different strata: tall and short vegetation. Two separate models for predicting the AGB were constructed for each stratum based on metrics calculated from ALS and DAP point clouds, respectively. From the stratified predictions, mean AGB was estimated for the entire study area. Despite the prediction models showing a weak fit, as indicated by their R2-values, the 95% CIs were relatively narrow, indicating adequate precision of the AGB estimates. No significant difference was found between the mean AGB estimates for the ALS and DAP models for either of the strata. Our results imply that RS data from ALS and DAP can be used for the estimation of AGB in treeline ecotones.

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Contemporary Changes of the Vegetation in the Mountainous Adygea as the Reflection of Global Processes

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2020

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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Changes in land use and landscape dynamics in mountains of northern Europe: challenges for science, management and conservation

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

A Mini-Review of Ixodes Ticks Climate Sensitive Infection Dispersion Risk in the Nordic Region

A Mini-Review of Ixodes Ticks Climate Sensitive Infection Dispersion Risk in the Nordic Region

Mapping and Estimating Aboveground Biomass in an Alpine Treeline Ecotone under Model-Based Inference

Contemporary Changes of the Vegetation in the Mountainous Adygea as the Reflection of Global Processes

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