Agroforestry systems of high nature and cultural value in Europe: provision of commercial goods and other ecosystem services

G Moreno, S Aviron, S Berg, J Crous-Duran… - Agroforestry …, 2018 - Springer
Land use systems that integrate woody vegetation with livestock and/or crops and are
recognised for their biodiversity and cultural importance can be termed high nature and …

Seeing the oakscape beyond the forest: a landscape approach to the oak regeneration in Europe

A Bobiec, A Reif, K Öllerer - Landscape Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context Intensification and specialisation of agriculture and forest use has led to profound
structural and compositional changes in European landscapes. In particular, sharp, narrow …

A social-ecological analysis of ecosystem services supply and trade-offs in European wood-pastures

M Torralba, N Fagerholm, T Hartel, G Moreno… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Wood-pastures are complex social-ecological systems (SES), which are the product of long-
term interaction between society and its surrounding landscape. Traditionally characterized …

The Ancient Tree Inventory: a summary of the results of a 15 year citizen science project recording ancient, veteran and notable trees across the UK

V Nolan, T Reader, F Gilbert, N Atkinson - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
Ancient, veteran and notable trees are ecologically important keystone organisms and have
tangible connections to folklore, history and sociocultural practices. Although found …

Does a minimal intervention approach threaten the biodiversity of protected areas? A multi-taxa short-term response to intervention in temperate oak-dominated …

P Sebek, R Bace, M Bartos, J Benes… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Efficient conservation management must be applied in protected areas in order to slow the
loss of biodiversity in Europe. Regarding forests, a conservation approach based on minimal …

Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning

P Angelstam, M Fedoriak, F Cruz… - Ecology and …, 2021 - research.rug.nl
Achieving sustainable development as an inclusive societal process in rural landscapes,
and sustainability in terms of functional green infrastructures for biodiversity conservation …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon sequestration offsets a large share of GHG emissions in dehesa cattle production

C Reyes-Palomo, E Aguilera, M Llorente… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The contribution of cattle production to climate change is increasingly recognized, and there
is a need to identify those systems minimizing emissions and maximizing carbon (C) sinks …

Unravelling opportunities, synergies, and barriers for enhancing silvopastoralism in the Mediterranean

E Varela, AM Olaizola, I Blasco, C Capdevila… - Land use policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Silvopastoral systems combine wood perennials with forage and livestock. These
multipurpose wood-pasture habitats represent an important part of European bio-cultural …

Estimating tree canopy cover percentage in a mediterranean silvopastoral systems using Sentinel-2A imagery and the stochastic gradient boosting algorithm

S Godinho, N Guiomar, A Gil - International Journal of Remote …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The availability of accurate and updated spatial information of tree cover in semi-arid and
arid silvopastoral systems (SPSs) is crucial to understand their spatial patterns and trends …

Common and conflicting objectives and practices of herders and conservation managers: the need for a conservation herder

Z Molnár, J Kis, C Vadász, L Papp, I Sándor… - Ecosystem Health …, 2016 - spj.science.org
The mutual dependence of extensive land-use and conservation management has become
apparent in Europe in the last 20–30 yr. Extensive land-use often survives in protected areas …