Traditional land use of the boreal forest landscape: Examples from Lierne, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Bele, Bolette; Norderhaug, Ann

doi:10.1080/00291951.2012.760002

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“…the outfields) was used both as grazing land and for collection of winter fodder (Eriksson & Arnell, 2017). The historical utilization of the boreal forest landscapes included a variety of agricultural activities as haymaking on outfields, pollarding and summer farming (Bele & Norderhaug, 2013), which are no longer common.…”

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Loss of semi-natural grassland in a boreal landscape: impacts of agricultural intensification and abandonment

Aune

Bryn

2018

Journal of Land Use Science

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The long history of human land use have had a strong influence on ecosystems and landscapes in the boreal forest region of Northern Europe and created semi-natural habitats of high conservation value. In this study, we quantify land-cover change and loss of semi-natural grassland in an agricultural landscape (6.2 km 2) in the boreal region of Norway from 1960 to 2015, and document a 49.1% loss of area that was seminatural grassland in 1960. The remaining semi-natural grasslands became smaller and the connectivity between them decreased. Intensification and abandonment of agricultural land use were of approximately equal importance for the loss of semi-natural grassland although the relative contribution of these processes depended on the topography and distance to farmsteads. The study provides an example of how change in land cover can be estimated and key drivers identified on a scale that is relevant for implementation of management and conservation measures.

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Loss of semi-natural grassland in a boreal landscape: impacts of agricultural intensification and abandonment

Aune

Bryn

2018

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…Before 1900 hay was mostly harvested from outfields, mainly on forest and mountain grasslands, while infields were reserved for growing cereals. Later on, hay fodder was also been produced on infields [26]. Special techniques (e.g., zip-lines for downhill transport of hay from meadows to barns) and several types of permanent and semi-permanent structures existed.…”

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Past, Present and Future of Hay-making Structures in Europe

Špulerová

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Branduini

et al. 2019

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Hay-making structures are part of the agricultural landscape of meadows and pastures. Hay meadows are still used and found all over Europe, but their distribution patterns as well as their characteristics and regional features depend on geographical area, climate, culture, and intensity of agriculture. Intensively used hay meadows are the most dominant, using heavy machinery to store hay mostly as rounded or square bales. Traditional hay-making structures represent structures or constructions, used to quickly dry freshly cut fodder and to protect it from humidity. The 'ancient' forms of traditional hay-making structures are becoming a relic, due to mechanisation and the use of new technologies. Both the need for drying hay and the traditional methods for doing so were similar across Europe. Our study of hay-making structures focuses on their current state, their Sustainability 2019, 11, 5581 2 of 22 development and history, current use and cultural values in various European countries. Regarding the construction and use of hay-making structures, we have distinguished three different types, which correlate to natural and regional conditions: (1) temporary hay racks of various shapes; (2) hay barracks, a special type of shelters for storing hay and (3) different types of permanent construction and buildings for drying and storing hay. Hay-making structures have been mostly preserved in connection with traditional agricultural landscapes, and particularly in the more remote regions or where associated with strong cultural identity.

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“…Perhaps the most important long-term human activity in the boreal forest region of northern Europe is historical agriculture, which was very different to contemporary, industrial farming (Emanuelsson 2009). In the context of Scandinavia, the limited availability of arable soils meant that forests and mires played a crucial part in food production and their use was shaped by the available resources (Frödin 1952;Bele and Norderhaug 2013). In southern Sweden livestock, including cattle, sheep, and goats, were grazed in forest outfields surrounding the farms, and winter fodder came mainly from leaf-hay harvesting from the coppicing and pollarding of broadleaved trees and shrubs (Slotte 2001).…”

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Long‐term development and trajectories of inferred lake‐water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes

Myrstener

Ninnes

Meyer-Jacob

et al. 2021

Limnology & Oceanography

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Monitoring of surface waters in the boreal region over the last decades shows that waters are becoming browner. This timeframe may not, however, be sufficient to capture underlying trajectories and driving mechanisms of lake-water quality, important for prediction of future trajectories. Here we synthesize data from seven lakes in the Swedish boreal landscape, with contemporary lake-water total organic carbon (TOC) concentrations of 1.4-14.4 mg L −1 , to conceptualize how natural and particularly human-driven processes at the landscape scale have regulated lake-water TOC levels over the Holocene. Sediment-inferred trends in TOC are supported by several proxies, including diatom-inferred pH. Before $ 700 CE, all lakes were naturally acidic (pH 4.7-5.4) and the concentrations of inferred lake-water TOC were high (10-23 mg L −1 ). The introduction of traditional human land use from $ 700 CE led to a decrease in lake-water TOC in all lakes (to 5-14 mg L −1 ), and in four poorly buffered lakes, also to an increase in pH by > 1 unit. During the 20 th century, industrial acid deposition was superimposed on centuries of land use, which resulted in unprecedentedly low lake-water TOC in all lakes (3-11 mg L −1 ) and severely reduced pH in the four poorly buffered lakes. The other lakes resisted pH changes, likely due to close connections to peatlands. Our results indicate that an important part of the recent browning of boreal lakes is a recovery from human impacts. Furthermore, on a conceptual level we stress that contemporary environmental changes occur within the context of past, long-term disturbances.

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Traditional land use of the boreal forest landscape: Examples from Lierne, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Loss of semi-natural grassland in a boreal landscape: impacts of agricultural intensification and abandonment

Loss of semi-natural grassland in a boreal landscape: impacts of agricultural intensification and abandonment

Past, Present and Future of Hay-making Structures in Europe

Long‐term development and trajectories of inferred lake‐water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes

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