Site use of grazing cattle and sheep in a large-scale pasture landscape: A GPS/GIS assessment

Putfarken, Dorothee; Dengler, Jürgen; Lehmann, Stephan; Härdtle, Werner

doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2007.05.012

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“…0.35 LU ha −1 year −1 ). These proposed values for this site are consistent with those for year-round grazing reported in literature (Piek 1998;Putfarken et al 2008). …”

Section: Application Of Dpsir Framework To Analyse Grazing Impact Witsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…The adoption of an alternate grazing system does not necessarily imply the cessation of the year-round grazing system adopted for the Podolian cattle, but rather a rethinking of its role as a tool to maintain or to create highly diverse ecosystems involving minimal livestock care. Moreover, at low densities, a year-round grazing system comprising both cattle and sheep appears to be suitable for the conservation of diverse pasture landscapes, since both species have complementary feeding preferences, and these also show seasonal changes (Putfarken et al 2008).…”

Section: Application Of Dpsir Framework To Analyse Grazing Impact Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The exclusion of livestock from riparian zones makes essential to consider the introduction of drinking troughs in different areas of the site, where water may be pumped from near or far sources by the use of solar-powered pumps. According to Putfarken et al (2008), the placement of such management facilities should be carefully considered when different herbivore species are kept on the same pastures as they guarantee that all habitats are grazed and thus are kept in a management status favourable to conservation.…”

Section: Application Of Dpsir Framework To Analyse Grazing Impact Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Grazing and Biodiversity Conservation: Highlights on a Natura 2000 Network Site

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Paolino

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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

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This paper provides a summarisation of information on the biodiversity of Natura 2000 sites of Basilicata and the impacts of grazing on protected habitats and species. Besides, using a case study of a site particularly rich in biodiversity as an example, we described the application of the Driving Force, Pressure, State, Impact and Response (DPSIR) framework to evaluate the impacts of grazing and to propose corrective measures for ensuring restoration and conservation of habitats. Similar situations to those described on grazing in the study site can arise for any kind of anthropogenic disturbance, which makes the approach here described and discussed suitable for a large-scale use.However, the challenge for Natura 2000 network in Basilicata is not strictly to propose measures aiming at conserving biodiversity, but rather to build a better awareness of the 'natural heritage' concealed within the sites, in order to create an active involvement of the stakeholders in the process of devising policies toward biodiversity conservation.

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“…0.35 LU ha −1 year −1 ). These proposed values for this site are consistent with those for year-round grazing reported in literature (Piek 1998;Putfarken et al 2008). …”

Section: Application Of Dpsir Framework To Analyse Grazing Impact Witsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Application Of Dpsir Framework To Analyse Grazing Impact Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Application Of Dpsir Framework To Analyse Grazing Impact Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Grazing and Biodiversity Conservation: Highlights on a Natura 2000 Network Site

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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

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“…On the other hand, long distances between successive records indicate directional movement not related to grazing. Although Ungar et al (2005) concluded that distance alone is a poor predictor of cattle activity, Putfarken et al (2008) classified activities as grazing if distances between fixes at 5-minute intervals were between 6 and 100 m, and obtained 94.3 and 89.4 correct classification rates for cattle and sheep.…”

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Precision livestock production: tools and concepts

Laca

2009

R. Bras. Zootec.

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-Precision livestock production (PLP) is the augmentation of precision agriculture (PA) concepts to include all components of agroecosystems, particularly animals and plant-animal interactions. Soil, plants and soil-plant interactions are the subjects of PA or site-specific farming, where the main principle is to exploit natural spatial heterogeneity to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. For the most part, PA has been studied and developed for intensive cropping systems with little attention devoted to pastoral and agropastoral systems. PLP focuses on the animal component and exploits heterogeneity in space and among individual animals towards more efficient and environmentally friendly production. Within PLP, precision grazing consists of the integration of information and communication technologies with knowledge about animal behavior and physiology to improve production of meat, milk and wool in grazing conditions. Two main goals are to minimize overgrazing of sensitive areas and to maximize the quality of the product through enhanced traceability. An integrated precision grazing system is outlined with its components: sensors of animal position, behavior and physiological status, real-time transmission of information to a decision support system, and feed-back through a series of actuators. Control of animal movement and diets is based on knowledge about species specific responses to various stimuli within the paradigms of flavor aversions and operant conditioning. Recent advances in the technologies and instrumentation available are reviewed briefly and linked to current livestock identification systems. The precision grazing vision is presented in full and the areas that need further research and development are discussed.Key Words: animal position, animal behavior, plant-animal interaction, precision grazing Precisão de produção de gado: ferramentas e conceitosRESUMO -A precisão de produção de gado (PPG) se constitui em ampliação do conceito de agricultura de precisão (AP) e que inclui todos os componentes de ecossistemas agrícolas, especialmente as interações animais e planta-animal. O solo, plantas e as interações solo-planta são temas da AP ou de locais específicos em cada fazenda, onde o principal objetivo é explorar a natural heterogeneidade espacial para aumentar a eficiência e reduzir impactos no meio ambiente. Para a maioria das situações a AP tem sido avaliada e desenvolvida em sistemas intensivos de cultivos de grãos e pouca atenção voltada para sistemas de pastejo e sistemas de integração lavoura e pecuária. A PPG tem como foco o componente animal e explora a heterogeneidade no espaço e entre animais individuais visando sistemas de produção apropriados ambientalmente e maior eficiência. No PPG o pastejo de precisão consiste da integração de tecnologias de informação e de comunicação com conhecimentos sobre o comportamento animal e sua fisiologia e isto visa o aumento da produção de carne, da produção de leite e da produção de lã, realizada em situações de pastejo. As...

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“…Global Positioning System (GPS) collars offer an efficient method for collecting data on resource use by animals (Hulbert and French 2001;Davidson-Watts et al 2006;Thomas et al 2008). GPS collars have recently been used to investigate habitat selection by lowland sheep on shrubby rangeland in Argentina (Bertiller and Ares 2008) and grassland in Germany (Putfarken et al 2008). Locations of hill sheep have previously been tracked using GPS devices to investigate accuracy of GPS data, home ranges, circadian rhythm and bite rates and classification of behaviour categories (Roberts et al 1995;Rutter et al 1997;Hulbert et al 1998;Hulbert and French 2001;Umstätter et al 2008) but not habitat selection.…”

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Habitat Selection by Grazing Animals in Heterogeneous Environments: The Case of Hill Sheep In Western Ireland

Williams¹,

Walls²,

Walsh³

et al. 2012

Biology & Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acade

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Uplands and peatlands are of high conservation importance and, while grazing animals are a key management tool for conservation, grazing-related damage can easily occur. Damage to European uplands is most notable in Britain and Ireland, where Scottish Blackface is the dominant hill sheep breed. Therefore, if conservation strategies that address concerns of grazing-related damage are to be strengthened, the Scottish Blackface is a good subject and a better understanding of their resource use would be advantageous. While previous habitat selection studies of hill sheep have depended on direct observation, this particular study uses Global Positioning System tracking collars to determine ewe locations. The study site is on a mountainside in western Ireland that is dominated by blanket bog (52.8%) and wet heath (35.3%). Habitat mapping and ewe range and resource selection analyses indicated that habitat selection was significant (P B0.05), typically acid grassland is selected most followed by wet heath, with blanket bog habitats selected least. Seasonal variation in habitat selection was also evident. These results (1) corroborate the findings of previous work elsewhere on plant community/habitat selection and (2) provide additional information that can be used to strengthen existing or new hill grazing management models that are used to aid decision-making. In particular, management plans should take into consideration the availability (both in terms of total area and connectivity) of the preferred sheep habitats and specifically consider grazing pressure in and between those habitats.

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Site use of grazing cattle and sheep in a large-scale pasture landscape: A GPS/GIS assessment

Cited by 139 publications

References 20 publications

Grazing and Biodiversity Conservation: Highlights on a Natura 2000 Network Site

Grazing and Biodiversity Conservation: Highlights on a Natura 2000 Network Site

Precision livestock production: tools and concepts

Habitat Selection by Grazing Animals in Heterogeneous Environments: The Case of Hill Sheep In Western Ireland

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