Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal
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Resumo: | Montado decline has been reported since the end of the nineteenth century in southern Portugal and increased markedly during the 1980s. Consensual reports in the literature suggest that this decline is due to a number of factors, such as environmental constraints, forest diseases, inappropriate management, and socioeconomic issues. An assessment on the pattern of montado distribution was conducted to reveal how the extent of land management, environmental variables, and spatial factors contributed to montado area loss in southern Portugal from 1990 to 2006. A total of 14 independent variables, presumably related to montado loss, were grouped into three sets: environmental variables, land management variables, and spatial variables. From 1990 to 2006, approximately 90,054 ha disappeared in the montado area with an estimated annual regression rate of 0.14 % year-1. Variation partitioning showed that the land management model accounted for the highest percentage of explained variance (51.8 %), followed by spatial factors (44.6 %) and environmental factors (35.5 %). These results indicate that most variance in the large-scale distribution of recent montado loss is due to land management, either alone or in combination with environmental and spatial factors. The full GAM model showed that different livestock grazing is one of the most important variables affecting montado loss. This suggests that optimum carrying capacity should decrease to 0.18–0.60 LU ha-1 for livestock grazing in montado under current ecological conditions in southern Portugal. This study also showed that land abandonment, wildfire, and agricultural practices (to promote pastures, crops or fallow lands) were three significant variables influencing montado loss. |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern PortugalLandscape changeLivestock grazing intensityMontado/dehesaMediterraneanQuercus sppSpatial distributionMontado decline has been reported since the end of the nineteenth century in southern Portugal and increased markedly during the 1980s. Consensual reports in the literature suggest that this decline is due to a number of factors, such as environmental constraints, forest diseases, inappropriate management, and socioeconomic issues. An assessment on the pattern of montado distribution was conducted to reveal how the extent of land management, environmental variables, and spatial factors contributed to montado area loss in southern Portugal from 1990 to 2006. A total of 14 independent variables, presumably related to montado loss, were grouped into three sets: environmental variables, land management variables, and spatial variables. From 1990 to 2006, approximately 90,054 ha disappeared in the montado area with an estimated annual regression rate of 0.14 % year-1. Variation partitioning showed that the land management model accounted for the highest percentage of explained variance (51.8 %), followed by spatial factors (44.6 %) and environmental factors (35.5 %). These results indicate that most variance in the large-scale distribution of recent montado loss is due to land management, either alone or in combination with environmental and spatial factors. The full GAM model showed that different livestock grazing is one of the most important variables affecting montado loss. This suggests that optimum carrying capacity should decrease to 0.18–0.60 LU ha-1 for livestock grazing in montado under current ecological conditions in southern Portugal. This study also showed that land abandonment, wildfire, and agricultural practices (to promote pastures, crops or fallow lands) were three significant variables influencing montado loss.Agroforest Syst2014-11-19T19:14:16Z2014-11-192014-11-05T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/11814http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11814https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-014-9757-7porGodinho, S., Guiomar, N., Machado R., Santos, P., Sá-Sousa, P., Fernandes J.P., Neves, N., Pinto-Correia T. (2014). Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal. Agroforest Syst DOI 10.1007/s10457-014-9757-7PAO - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científicagodinho.sergio@gmail.comnunogui@uevora.ptrdpm@uevora.ptaps@uevora.ptpsasousa@uevora.ptpaf@uevora.ptnneves@uevora.ptmtpc@uevora.ptGodinho, SérgioGuiomar, NunoMachado, RuiSantos, PedroSá-Sousa, PauloFernandes, João PauloNeves, NunoPinto-Correia, Teresainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-03T18:55:55Zoai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/11814Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:05:30.911983Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal Godinho, Sérgio Landscape change Livestock grazing intensity Montado/dehesa Mediterranean Quercus spp Spatial distribution |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal |
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Godinho, Sérgio |
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Godinho, Sérgio Guiomar, Nuno Machado, Rui Santos, Pedro Sá-Sousa, Paulo Fernandes, João Paulo Neves, Nuno Pinto-Correia, Teresa |
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Guiomar, Nuno Machado, Rui Santos, Pedro Sá-Sousa, Paulo Fernandes, João Paulo Neves, Nuno Pinto-Correia, Teresa |
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Godinho, Sérgio Guiomar, Nuno Machado, Rui Santos, Pedro Sá-Sousa, Paulo Fernandes, João Paulo Neves, Nuno Pinto-Correia, Teresa |
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Landscape change Livestock grazing intensity Montado/dehesa Mediterranean Quercus spp Spatial distribution |
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Landscape change Livestock grazing intensity Montado/dehesa Mediterranean Quercus spp Spatial distribution |
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Montado decline has been reported since the end of the nineteenth century in southern Portugal and increased markedly during the 1980s. Consensual reports in the literature suggest that this decline is due to a number of factors, such as environmental constraints, forest diseases, inappropriate management, and socioeconomic issues. An assessment on the pattern of montado distribution was conducted to reveal how the extent of land management, environmental variables, and spatial factors contributed to montado area loss in southern Portugal from 1990 to 2006. A total of 14 independent variables, presumably related to montado loss, were grouped into three sets: environmental variables, land management variables, and spatial variables. From 1990 to 2006, approximately 90,054 ha disappeared in the montado area with an estimated annual regression rate of 0.14 % year-1. Variation partitioning showed that the land management model accounted for the highest percentage of explained variance (51.8 %), followed by spatial factors (44.6 %) and environmental factors (35.5 %). These results indicate that most variance in the large-scale distribution of recent montado loss is due to land management, either alone or in combination with environmental and spatial factors. The full GAM model showed that different livestock grazing is one of the most important variables affecting montado loss. This suggests that optimum carrying capacity should decrease to 0.18–0.60 LU ha-1 for livestock grazing in montado under current ecological conditions in southern Portugal. This study also showed that land abandonment, wildfire, and agricultural practices (to promote pastures, crops or fallow lands) were three significant variables influencing montado loss. |
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Godinho, S., Guiomar, N., Machado R., Santos, P., Sá-Sousa, P., Fernandes J.P., Neves, N., Pinto-Correia T. (2014). Assessment of environment, land management, and spatial variables on recent changes in Montado land cover in southern Portugal. Agroforest Syst DOI 10.1007/s10457-014-9757-7 PAO - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica godinho.sergio@gmail.com nunogui@uevora.pt rdpm@uevora.pt aps@uevora.pt psasousa@uevora.pt paf@uevora.pt nneves@uevora.pt mtpc@uevora.pt |
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