Landscape Management - Science topic

En este trabajo se muestra a los agaves (género Agave L.) como elementos del paisaje andaluz y giennense. La utilización de la fotografía como metodología interpretativa del estudio del paisaje ha permitido corroborar su asidua presencia en el territorio – apareciendo en las cuatro tipologías de paisaje cultural establecidas por el Plan Nacional de...

Pollination is an important ecosystem service for both crop and wild plants. In recent decades, many pollinators have been experiencing population declines due to land-use changes and intensified agriculture. However, effects of anthropogenic landscapes on bee pollinators in the tropics are still little investigated. We analyzed the effects of land...

The concept of Ecological Infrastructure (EI) as a lens for landscape management has the potential to address environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, by instrumentalizing Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). Nature’s Contributions to People (NCPs) stems from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity an...

Rural areas of advanced industrial countries have frequently experienced a dualistic set of policies: one designed for the land-use sector, especially agriculture; and another dealing with rural development [1]. As problems of industrialised agriculture and forestry emerged, a more joined up approach to policy was advocated. Since the 1980s, at nat...

Ghana has been struggling to manage the human insecurities of mining resource extraction for several years. Many past approaches have been piecemeal and sector-based interventions, producing limited results. In recent times however, government with support from the World Bank, has shifted attention toward integrated landscape management programs. B...

Fire has been a widely used tool in habitat and landscape management, mainly associated with land use dynamics of deforestation, pasture renewal, hunting and reclaiming new agriculture and rangeland areas. Ancient societies followed norms and rules regarding the used of fire. However, as these societies developed and land ownership changed, the con...

Effective management of Protected Areas (PAs) is important in order to secure functions of these sites for conservation and sustainable regional development. Therefore it is important to prepare theoretically and practically implement "functional networks" of the PAs in order to improve the real situation in landscape protection and sustainable lan...

This paper explores the implementation of strategic design in sustainable landscape development through a case study of the Neckar Landscape Park Student Competition. Drawing upon previous research on sustainable land use development, the study emphasizes the importance of integrated approaches and transdisciplinary thinking in managing landscapes....

Research indicates that the Jordan River Basin area is an area where serious environmental and cultural changes occur. This paper illustrates a new methodological approach to developing a structural framework to study river basins‘ cultural and landscape changes. The aim of the proposed framework is to elaborate and overlap the natural and cultural...

The increasing frequency of severe wildfires demands a shift in landscape management to mitigate their consequences. The role of managed, low-intensity fire as a driver of beneficial fuel treatment in fire-adapted ecosystems has drawn interest in both scientific and policy venues. Using a synthetic control approach to analyze 20 years of satellite-...

The Sahel is a region of extreme climatic conditions and recurrent droughts which act as a stumbling block to socio-economic development, poverty reduction and food security in the region. It is a region prone to environmental crises, driven by a multitude of factors including the absence of coherent environmental policies, scanty and erratic rainf...

Tropical deforestation and forest degradation have resulted in substantial losses of goods and services and a decline in the quality of life. Agroforestry is a viable land-use option to counteract such declines in ecosystem services, including biodiversity and supporting local livelihoods. However, it is unclear how socioecological factors mediate...

Coastal dune systems in northwest Europe are facing conflicting challenges associated with climate change and human interventions in landuse and landscape management. Research over the last decade has highlighted a global stabilisation pattern in coastal dunes, fuelling long-standing debates surrounding conservation approaches. Dune erosion can be...

In order to better understand the long-term management of water resource and its relationship with peatlands in mid-mountain areas, a research project was conducted in the mire complex of Gourgon, in the Forez Mountains (Eastern Massif Central, France). The peat growth response to global and local changes was reconstructed based (1) on the radiocar...

This multispecies ethnography investigates how free-roaming ponies and humans participate in the production of “pony wildness” on Assateague Island, a barrier island located off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast. The bordering practices of ponies intersect with the bordering practices of people to generate a relational conception of pony wildness that in...

Rural abandonment is a significant process in the Mediterranean region, posing sustainability challenges for rural and urban areas. Although there is an increase in studies focusing on the ecological implications and impacts of land abandonment and the role of rewilding, there is a knowledge gap in the study of the socio-cultural dimension of aband...

Simple Summary Calcareous fens, a unique and endangered type of peatland, harbour unique groups of little-studied aquatic insects. Caddisflies (Trichoptera), an amphibiotic insect group, have proven to be useful (at different levels of organisation) in describing various aspects of fens and their water bodies (pools and ditches). We focused on the...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) quantification is critical for assessing city‐level carbon emissions and sustainable urban development. While urban vegetation has the potential to provide environmental benefits, such as heat and carbon mitigation, the CO2 exchange from biogenic sectors and its impact from the environmental perturbations are often overlooked....

Scaling up case-based knowledge to understand human-environmental interactions is key to addressing the sustainability challenges we face in the Anthropocene. Mapping social-ecological system (SES) archetypes has emerged as a promising tool in identifying these interactions in a spatially explicit manner and developing transferrable sustainability...

In the absence of a holistic view of landscape sustainability, credible data and consistent information are needed to help decision-making and support adaptive landscape management. This course of events highlights a strong need for a tool (system of standards and controls) that can be used by multiple stakeholders (such as NGOs, public authorities...

The US landscape industry consists of 632,000 businesses with >1 million persons employed in 2022. The most common service that landscape service providers (LSPs) perform is pest management. Over the past 25 years, LSPs have been challenged to adopt more holistic approaches to pest management via the use of nonchemical and less toxic chemical contr...

Transhumance is a form of livestock management including seasonal movement of livestock and people. Based on literature studies, interviews, field conversations and visits, this article aims to show the different ways in which transhumance practitioners currently manage land – which to a large degree is different types of commons – and to discuss o...

In the face of worldwide population growth, increasingly intensive agriculture, depopulation of marginal and less favoured areas, and growing rural-urban migration, two contrasting trends are becoming more pronounced: land abandonment on one hand and intensification of agricultural land on the other hand. Considering the complexity of mentioned iss...

Sustainable landscape management is a key aspect for the development of mountain areas, especially where communities historically held common lands. Mountains face depopulation and abandonment, and transition to multifunctional landscapes emerges as an opportunity. We present a village case study (NW Portugal) focusing on people’s perceptions and p...

In the north-western Mediterranean (Mediterranean France, Catalonia), the Early Middle Ages were a period of major change with a restructuration of rural settlements, that impacted both landscape management and how animal and plant resources were exploited. Recent bioarchaeological research has enabled us to understand the agropastoral changes asso...

Drought is a phenomenon that is strengthening with the progress of climate change. Many fields of human activities such as agriculture, forestry, ecology, economy, water supply, or energy production are affected. Municipalities are one of the most important actors, because final adaptation often takes place at this level. However, planning measures...

Transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) are regarded as crucial instruments for biodiversity conservation as they connect landscapes across country borders. The TFCA framework is built on multi-actor, multi-sector and multi-level negotiations, a concept that incorporates principles of landscape governance (LG). This article is driven by our intere...

The aim of the study was to determine the influence of differentiated landscape management on the distribution and abundance of butterfly species. The question was raised with regard to which land use type benefited butterflies, and which affected them, that is: under which management type does biodiversity increase, and under which is it depleted?...

RESUMO As áreas protegidas não são suficientes para produzir os serviços ecossistêmicos necessários à manutenção da vida. O corredor agroecológico contribui para a manutenção da conectividade e a redução da degradação de áreas protegidas e pode apoiar as áreas agrícolas na produção de alternativas econômicas. Esta pesquisa analisa a viabilidade de...

The article assesses the changes in the state of Ukraine’s natural environment, namely due to the fire on its territories as a result of military operations. Remote sensing can be considered as a decision support tool for landscape management, remote sensing plays a vital operational tool in the affected areas to assess the consequences, as well as...

This research was conducted to determine the effect of temperature on the growth of Trichoderma harzianum. Trichoderma harzianum has functions to prevent the growth of diseases in plants, increase plant growth, and decompose organic matter. The research was conducted at the Phytopathology and Biosystem and Landscape Management Laboratory at SEAMEO...

Understanding the response mechanism of ecosystem services (ES) to landscape patterns is important in regional landscape planning and sustainable development. In this study, the landscape index and InVEST model were used to quantitatively analyze the spatio-temporal evolution of landscape patterns and ES in the Ganjiang River Basin of China from 19...

Eutrophication due to high load of nutrients from the catchment is significant worldwide problem causing impairment of water ecosystems and water quality. The reason is tight connection of eutrophication with photosynthetic biomass production of blue green algae resulting in extreme changes of oxygen level, anoxia at the bottom and release of toxic...

Plant biodiversity is crucial to satisfy the trophic needs of pollinators, mainly through nectar and pollen rewards. However, a few studies have been directed to ascertain the intraspecific variation of chemical features and the nutritional value of nectar and pollen floral rewards in relation to the alteration of landscapes due to human activities...

Modeling the perception and evaluation of landscapes from the human perspective is a desirable goal for several scientific domains and applications. Human vision is the dominant sense, and human eyes are the sensors for apperceiving the environmental stimuli of our surroundings. Therefore, exploring the experimental recording and measurement of the...

INTRODUCTION Post-deforestation landscape management in the Brazilian Amazon is still carried out with the frequent use of fire, both by family farmers and ranchers (e.g., BARONA et al., 2020). This management system can be considered low financial cost and low technological input. However, they annually cause enormous losses to the forest due to f...

This study combined landscape character assessment (LCA) and cultural ecosystem services (CES) frameworks to evaluate human well-being in the peri-urban area of Harku Municipality, Estonia. Using geospatial data combined with expert opinions, the study investigated the interplay between landscape character types and environmental/contact types thro...

Context: Long-term farmland abandonment is increasing fuel hazard in many mountainous landscapes of the Mediterranean Basin. Combined with ongoing climate change, fire activity and fire regimes may change in the future, thus challenging the management of these regions. Objectives: To assess the effects of fire-smart management strategies on landsca...

Scale insects are some of the most abundant and damaging pests of urban forests in North America. Despite their prevalence, scale insect emergence during the winter dormant season, which could contribute to their population growth and spread and thereby inform management, has not been thoroughly investigated. Crapemyrtle bark scale (CMBS), Acanthoc...

The safety and security of Indian neighbourhoods are of utmost importance in ensuring the well-being of residents. Frequently we come to know the accidental jeopardies and causalities wherein, sometimes, compromised/neglected city planning aspects and crime prevention strategies seem responsible. In such cases, natural surveillance plays a vital ro...

The Great Wall of China was a military facility that has been continuously built and used for over thousands of years, and is a world-renowned cultural heritage site today. The plants growing on top surface of the Great Wall caused the damage of the Great Wall, but the process of removing these plants may further damage the body of the Great Wall....

The Mole Ecological Landscape hosts the Mole National Park, a biodiversity hotspot in Ghana’s Guinean savannah ecozone. The landscape comprises shrubland and patches of forest with species of conservation concern including African mahogany (Afzelia africana) and rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus). Important economic trees include the shea tree (Vitel...

Maintaining biodiversity is one of the factors determining the proper functioning of ecosystems, especially those with high human impact. Ground beetles, as bioindicators, are particularly valuable in understanding ecosystem responses and sustainability in forest and landscape management. Focusing on the regeneration of pine forests, this study aim...

This study used four surveys to capture perceptions of the current scenario of the forest sector and on the trends of the sector regarding human resources. The aim was to investigate the skills entailed by the profession from the viewpoint of professionals, taking into account job offers and the opinion of new college graduates. All surveys were an...

The safety and security of Indian neighbourhoods are of utmost importance in ensuring the well-being of residents. Frequently we come to know the accidental jeopardies and causalities wherein, sometimes, compromised/neglected city planning aspects and crime prevention strategies seem responsible. In such cases, natural surveillance plays a vital ro...

Urbanization is homogenizing residential developments and soils across a wide climate gradient of the United States. Land development practices commonly install landscapes on low-quality compacted fill material. While previous research shows that soil quality beneath urban lawns improves over time, studies used golf courses to represent lawns or sa...

Climate change and unsustainable land-use practices are causing megafires in South America. Here we call for rigorous scientific coordination and global cooperation to claim back landscape planning, mitigate fire risk and foster resilience in the region. A remarkable surge in the occurrence and severity of megafires has been observed around the wor...

El paisaje sonoro urbano, su ambiente acústico también denominado el clima acústico de la ciudad, ha demostrado ser un elemento que afecta y condiciona de forma importante la calidad de vida de las personas. Hablamos de la ciudadanía que habita el municipio y de sus visitantes, a quienes también puede llegar a condicionar significativamente su impr...

Knowledge about deer spatial use is essential for damage mitigation, conservation, and harvest management. We assess annual and seasonal home range sizes in relation to habitat composition for red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Sweden, using GPS-data from two regions with different management systems. We compare our findings with reviewed data on red dee...

This paper provides an overview of traditional hay-making structures and the related agricultural landscapes in Europe. The information was collected using a standardised questionnaire that was completed by experts from different countries. What all countries had in common was that hay production with its corresponding structures was widespread. Ho...

The current water scarcity situation in Egypt is severe, with a decline of approximately 600 m3/person/year, due to several exacerbating factors, including population growth, urbanization, climate change, water leakages, and the problem of the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia. Egypt is suffering from physical water scarcity, which indicates insufficient...

The safety and security of Indian neighbourhoods are of utmost importance in ensuring the well-being of residents. Frequently we come to know the accidental jeopardies and causalities wherein, sometimes, compromised/neglected city planning aspects and crime prevention strategies seem responsible. In such cases, natural surveillance plays a vital ro...

Superior yields of super hybrid rice have demonstrably contributed to contemporary food security. Despite this, the extent to which intensive nitrogen fertilizer requirements of such crops have impacted on soil health and microbial communities primarily remains unchartered territory, evoking questions of sustainability. Here, we examine how four ma...

In the summer of 2022, we experienced an extreme water shortage in the Great Hungarian Plain and the consequences influenced and still influence our lives in several ways. The long-term solution to the problem of drought is sustainable landscape management, which builds on the natural characteristics of the area – climate, soil, topography, hydrogr...

Fragmentation of landscapes and habitats has been identified as the main driver of biodiversity loss. Ecological corridors may support the conservation of biota in fragmented landscapes due to enhanced habitat connectivity. We conducted a study in order to assess the potential of a linear woodland landscape element along a railway line as ecologica...

A geodiversity assessment is one of the basic steps in the development of geoprotection activities. It is important to establish parameters that quantify the elements and locations of abiotic nature. Here, the focus is on those who are richer than the average population. In doing so, it is possible to manage areas for the protection of important ge...

Despite their potential benefits for participatory wetland management, wetland meanings have not been taken into account in this process. Furthermore, it is still unclear how these meanings develop through wetland-human interactions and how they interrelate in different contexts. This research aims to narrow this gap by exploring and comparing the...

Agriculture and forestry cover more than 75% of Europe, and invertebrate pests are a costly challenge for these two economic sectors. Landscape management is increasingly promoted as a solution to enhance biological pest control, but little is known on its effects on adjacent crop fields and woodlands. This study aims to explore the effect of the p...

Human-caused environmental change has profoundly impacted resource management and land use patterns in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. This study used multi-temporal Land-sat images from 1998, 2008, and 2018 to analyze land use and land cover changes, particularly those associated with forest cover changes, in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Trac...

Context Syntheses of vegetation responses over the last century are rare for the Alps, and limited in chronological and taxonomical resolution. We propose that pollen records from glaciers can be used to fill this gap. Objectives Our aim is to evaluate the reliability of glacier pollen records as historical archives of biodiversity to obtain plant...

Context Electrical transmission rights-of-way (ROW) are ubiquitous and critical infrastructure across the landscape. Active vegetation management of these ROW, a necessity to deliver electricity more safely, maintains these landscape features as stages of early successional habitat, a rarity in many regions, making these areas viable movement corri...

Free-ranging grazers are increasingly being introduced to areas of high natural value, such as wetlands. There is also growing attention that has been paid to the historical role of herbivores in shaping ecosystems and landscapes. Even though studies on the grazing of free-range horses were carried out in different regions and climates, still littl...

Dear Colleagues, Natural and anthropogenic ecosystems can bring certain benefits to human communities, which humans can use to increase well-being. Forest ecosystem services currently play an important role; they are of both direct and indirect interest to specialists from different fields, and are receiving the attention of political decision mar...

Mountain landscapes that are managed to provide several ecosystem services (ES) have the potential to sustain high levels of biodiversity while also meeting multiple human needs. The promotion of multifunctional landscapes has become an important policy target in land management and has gained research traction under the definition of ES-multifunct...

Africa faces significant challenges in balancing economic and social development while preserving its natural resources. However, we still have much to learn about the diverse bat community on the continent, especially in drier ecosystems. In our study, conducted in a semi-arid region of Kenya, we aimed to provide detailed information on what influ...

The development of urbanization and the transformation of green lands into impermeable land increase temperature and create urban heat islands (UHIs). Our observations with remote sensing instruments of Landsat platforms show considerable changes in land use types in Beijing city with the shrinking of green lands, expansion of built environments, a...