Modelling the spatial distribution of livestock in Europe

Neumann, Kathleen; Elbersen, B.S.; Verburg, Peter H.; Staritsky, I.G.; Pérez‐Soba, Marta; Vries, Wim de; Rienks, W.A.

doi:10.1007/s10980-009-9357-5

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“…Landcover maps, such as the CORINE maps of the European Commission, are, in general, particularly poor in capturing farmland abandonment as well as intensification and disintensification processes. Fortunately, new land-use intensity datasets for Europe have been or are currently produced, including livestock grazing intensity (Neumann et al 2009(Neumann et al , 2011, fertilizer application (Temme and Verburg 2011), forest harvesting intensity (Levers et al 2014), and cropping intensity (S. Estel, T. Kuemmerle, C. Alcántara, C. Levers, A. Prishchepov, and P. Hostert, unpublished manuscript), offering potential for uptake in more comprehensive landscape characterizations.…”

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Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

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Bieling³

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ABSTRACT. Landscapes are closely linked to human well-being, but they are undergoing rapid and fundamental change. Understanding the societal transformation underlying these landscape changes, as well as the ecological and societal outcomes of landscape transformations across scales are prime areas for landscape research. We review and synthesize findings from six important areas of landscape research in Europe and discuss how these findings may advance the study of ecosystem change and society and its thematic key priorities. These six areas are: (1) linkages between people and the environment in landscapes, (2) landscape structure and land-use intensity, (3) long-term landscape history, (4) driving forces, processes, and actors of landscape change, (5) landscape values and meanings, and (6) landscape stewardship. We propose that these knowledge areas can contribute to the study of ecosystem change and society, considering nested multiscale dynamics of social-ecological systems; the stewardship of these systems and their ecosystem services; and the relationships between ecosystem services, human well-being, wealth, and poverty. Our synthesis highlights that knowledge about past and current landscape patterns, processes, and dynamics provides guidance for developing visions to support the sustainable stewardship of social-ecological systems under future conditions.

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Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

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Kizos²,

Bieling³

et al. 2015

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“…We used grazing intensity of cattle, goats, and sheep as a proxy for nitrogen inputs on pastures as suggested by Temme and Verburg (2011). We converted livestock numbers on NUTS2 level to livestock units (LSU) following Neumann et al (2009). We disaggregated LSU to livestock density (LSU/km 2 ) based on grazing probability maps (Neumann et al 2009) and reclassified the result into two classes, which were used as a proxy for low (0-25 LSU/km 2 ) and high ([25 LSU/ km 2 ) grazing intensity ( Fig.…”

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Simulating and delineating future land change trajectories across Europe

Stürck¹,

Levers

Zanden³

et al. 2015

Reg Environ Change

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Explorations of future land use change are important to understand potential conflicts between competing land uses, trade-offs associated with particular land change trajectories, and the effectiveness of policies to steer land systems into desirable states. Most model-based explorations and scenario studies focused on conversions in broad land use classes, but disregarded changes in land management or focused on individual sectors only. Using the European Union (EU) as a case study, we developed an approach to identifying typical combinations of land cover and management changes by combining the results of multimodel simulations in the agriculture and forest sectors for four scenarios from 2000 to 2040. We visualized land change trajectories by mapping regional hotspots of change. Land change trajectories differed in extent and spatial pattern across the EU and among scenarios, indicating trajectory-specific option spaces for alternative land system outcomes. In spite of the large variation in the area of change, similar hotspots of land change were observed among the scenarios. All scenarios indicate a stronger polarization of land use in Europe, with a loss of multifunctional landscapes. We analyzed locations subject to change by comparing location characteristics associated with certain land change trajectories. Results indicate differences in the location conditions of different land change trajectories, with diverging impacts on ecosystem service provisioning. Policy and planning for future land use needs to account for the spatial variation of land change trajectories to achieve both overarching and location-specific targets.

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“…After the reclassification of the nitrogen input levels the point observations were extrapolated to all cropland pixels using country-specific multinomial regression models and a set of environmental and socio-economic location factors. Grassland was modeled using a different approach, where we estimated nitrogen input based on local cattle stocking densities using livestock maps from Neumann et al (2009) and assuming a uniform quantity of 100 kg N/ha per cow per year (van Grinsven et al, 2015;van der Hoek, 1998), based on total N of dairy cattle minus the N in animal products (e.g., milk). Following the approach of Temme & Verburg (2011), nitrogen input was reclassified into two classes; extensive (<50 kg N/ha) and intensive (>50 kg N/ha) grasslands.…”

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Representing composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes: A new typology

Zanden

Levers

Verburg

et al. 2016

Landscape and Urban Planning

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h i g h l i g h t s• We present a spatially-explicit typology of European agricultural landscapes.• Datasets representing land cover, landscape structure and land management are used.• An expert-based top-down typology is compared with a data-driven bottom-up approach.• Inclusion of land management differentiates our results from existing typologies.• We find clear overlaps in general landscape patterns with existing typologies. a r t i c l e i n f o b s t r a c tComprehensive maps that characterize the variation in agricultural landscapes across Europe are lacking. In this paper we present a new Europe-wide, spatially-explicit typology and inventory of the diversity in composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes. Agricultural landscape types were characterized at a 1 km 2 resolution based on Europe-wide datasets that represent land cover, landscape structure and land management intensity. Two alternative approaches for typology development were used: an expert-based top-down approach, and a bottom-up approach based on automated clustering using Self Organizing Maps (SOMs). Comparison with available national and European landscape typologies showed that our typology deviates from existing biophysical and anthropocentric typologies relevant to agricultural landscapes as result of the inclusion of land management aspects. Concordance occurred between specific European typology classes, while the comparison with national landscape typologies showed a correspondence in agricultural landscape patterns. Our agricultural landscape typology can provide a basis for landscape assessment at a European-scale to help to identify agricultural landscape types prone to change and landscapes that may require policy response.

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Modelling the spatial distribution of livestock in Europe

Cited by 100 publications

References 17 publications

Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

Simulating and delineating future land change trajectories across Europe

Representing composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes: A new typology

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