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Animal, 2022 Despite their predominance worldwide, few studies have been conducted to look at the impact of sheep production systems relying on transhumance practices in arid and continental conditions, on farm-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using Turkey as an
Sezen Ocak Yetişgin +2 more
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Digital wiki map of pastoral geographies in eastern Senegal
Pastoralism, 2017 The persistence of transhumance systems requires continued access to key pastoral resources that together allow the seasonal movement of livestock herds over long distances.
Matthew Turner +3 more
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Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Pastoral Mobility in the Far North Region, Cameroon: Data Analysis and Modeling. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Modeling the movements of humans and animals is critical to understanding the transmission of infectious diseases in complex social and ecological systems.
Ningchuan Xiao +4 more
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Climate Change and African Agricultural Resilience: A 10-Year Comprehensive Review of Adaptive Capacity, Policy, and Environmental Stewardship. [PDF]
Plant Environ InteractABSTRACT In the current era, climate change has emerged as a fundamental threat to African agriculture, driven by increasingly erratic climatic patterns such as prolonged rainfall, decadal droughts, and escalating thermal stress. This review evaluates contemporary agricultural productivity by gathering and analyzing empirical data from academic ...
Okonkwo CO +4 more
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Big dairy data to unravel effects of environmental, physiological and morphological factors on milk production of mountain-pastured Braunvieh cows [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The transhumance system, which consists in moving animals to high mountain pastures during summer, plays a considerable role in preserving both local biodiversity and traditions, as well as protecting against natural hazard.
Solange Duruz +4 more
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Nomadic PeoplesThis case study of the decline and revitalisation of transhumance in the Valles Occidentales challenges the dominant narrative that transhumance is a practice of the past without present-day relevance and viability.
María E. Fernández-Giménez
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The recovery of wolf populations across Europe has reignited human–wildlife conflicts, particularly in countries such as Austria, where wolves have been absent for more than a century. Livestock depredation remains one of the primary sources of tension, and effective management requires a solid spatial basis for planning.
Florian Kunz +5 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Understanding how wild ungulates share space with domestic livestock is central to conservation planning in Himalayan multi‐use landscapes. This study focuses on multi‐axis niche relationships among six wild ungulates: hangul Cervus hanglu hanglu, Kashmir musk deer Moschus cupreus, Himalayan goral Naemorhedus goral, kashmir markhor Capra falconeri ...
Mohsin Javid +2 more
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Provisioning a Silk Road City: Herd Management Strategies at the Urban Site of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents evidence for herd management at the early medieval city of Dzhankent in southern Kazakhstan. Located along the Northern Silk Road, Dzhankent was a key trading node linking northern and southern areas between the 9th and 10th centuries ce.
Kara Larson +7 more
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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2016 The study aimed at verifying if the prolonged walking and fasting of the driving down transhumance from an alpine pasture to the farm of origin at the end of the summer grazing may impair health and productive response of lactating cows belonging to two ...
Luisa Magrin +4 more
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