Is extensive livestock production compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation?
The effect of commercial livestock production on biodiversity and soil conservation is difficult to evaluate due to the lack of relicts without livestock, landscape heterogeneity and the complexity of responses. We analyzed the available information and models, integrating different scales, to describe in what conditions commercial livestock production results compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation. We conclude that in systems that evolved with heavy pressure of either wild or domestic herbivores, commercial livestock production is compatible with conservation, and may even be necessary. However, biodiversity is maximized with a heterogeneous herbivore pressure within each of the habitats that constitute the landscape, while livestock production tends to be optimized with a homogeneous pressure. Thus, even in systems that evolved with heavy herbivore pressure, compatibility with conservation requires certain heterogeneity of herbivore pressure, which may decrease production relative to the potential maximum. In systems which evolved with light herbivore pressure, commercial livestock production is less likely to be compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation.
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rev-ecoaus-article-13742020-11-04T17:27:15Z Is extensive livestock production compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation? La ganadería extensiva, ¿es compatible con la conservación de la biodiversidad y de los suelos? Cingolani, Ana M. Noy-Meir, Imanuel Renison, Daniel D. Cabido, Marcelo diversity erosion fauna evolutionary history of grazing landscape diversidad erosión fauna historia evolutiva de pastoreo paisaje The effect of commercial livestock production on biodiversity and soil conservation is difficult to evaluate due to the lack of relicts without livestock, landscape heterogeneity and the complexity of responses. We analyzed the available information and models, integrating different scales, to describe in what conditions commercial livestock production results compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation. We conclude that in systems that evolved with heavy pressure of either wild or domestic herbivores, commercial livestock production is compatible with conservation, and may even be necessary. However, biodiversity is maximized with a heterogeneous herbivore pressure within each of the habitats that constitute the landscape, while livestock production tends to be optimized with a homogeneous pressure. Thus, even in systems that evolved with heavy herbivore pressure, compatibility with conservation requires certain heterogeneity of herbivore pressure, which may decrease production relative to the potential maximum. In systems which evolved with light herbivore pressure, commercial livestock production is less likely to be compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation. El efecto de la ganadería comercial sobre la conservación de la biodiversidad y de los suelos es difícil de evaluar debido a la falta de relictos sin ganado, a la heterogeneidad del paisaje y a la complejidad de las respuestas. Para describir en qué condiciones la ganadería comercial resulta compatible con la conservación de la biodiversidad y de los suelos, analizamos a distintas escalas los modelos y la información existentes. Concluimos que en sistemas que evolucionaron con altas presiones de herbívoros, ya sean domésticos o silvestres, la ganadería a cargas comerciales puede ser compatible con la conservación, y aun necesaria. Sin embargo, mientras que la biodiversidad se maximiza con una presión de herbivoría heterogénea dentro de cada uno de los diferentes ambientes que componen el paisaje, la producción ganadera tiende a optimizarse con una presión homogénea. Por ello, aún en sistemas que evolucionaron con alta presión de herbivoría, la compatibilidad con la conservación exige una cierta heterogeneidad de la presión, lo que puede disminuir la producción con respecto a la máxima posible. En sistemas que evolucionaron con baja presión de herbívoría es menos probable que la ganadería comercial resulte compatible con la conservación de la biodiversidad y de los suelos. Asociación Argentina de Ecología 2008-12-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://ojs.ecologiaaustral.com.ar/index.php/Ecologia_Austral/article/view/1374 Ecología Austral; Vol. 18 No. 3 (2008); 253-271 Ecología Austral; Vol. 18 Núm. 3 (2008); 253-271 0327-5477 1667-7838 spa https://ojs.ecologiaaustral.com.ar/index.php/Ecologia_Austral/article/view/1374/740 Derechos de autor 2020 Ecología Austral |
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The effect of commercial livestock production on biodiversity and soil conservation is difficult to evaluate due to the lack of relicts without livestock, landscape heterogeneity and the complexity of responses. We analyzed the available information and models, integrating different scales, to describe in what conditions commercial livestock production results compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation. We conclude that in systems that evolved with heavy pressure of either wild or domestic herbivores, commercial livestock production is compatible with conservation, and may even be necessary. However, biodiversity is maximized with a heterogeneous herbivore pressure within each of the habitats that constitute the landscape, while livestock production tends to be optimized with a homogeneous pressure. Thus, even in systems that evolved with heavy herbivore pressure, compatibility with conservation requires certain heterogeneity of herbivore pressure, which may decrease production relative to the potential maximum. In systems which evolved with light herbivore pressure, commercial livestock production is less likely to be compatible with biodiversity and soil conservation. |
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