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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, Elia Vajana, Alexander Burren, Christine Flury, Stéphane Joost   +4 more
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The Decline and Revitalisation of Transhumance in the Valles Occidentales of Spain’s Aragonese Pyrenees

Nomadic Peoples
This 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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Modeling the impacts of grazing management on livestock behavior and performance: A case study in the Peruvian Andes

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Our modeling study shows that livestock management strongly influences grazing behavior and animal performance in the Peruvian Andes. Furthermore, adjusting stocking rates and improving animal distribution can enhance forage intake and body condition while increasing forage biomass.
Melody R. Zarria Samanamud, Randall B. Boone   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritizing areas for wolf management in Austria by modelling potential habitat and depredation risk

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, Luca Fuchs, Matthias Amon, Klaus Hackländer, Jörg Fabian Knufinke, Jennifer Hatlauf   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connaissance locale des pratiques de la transhumance dans la zone soudano-sahélienne du Mali

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 2016
Les études sur la transhumance ont souvent ciblé les pasteurs – notamment peuls – des zones sahéliennes. Pour en donner une autre perspective, la pré­sente étude a été centrée sur les pratiques de la transhumance dans la zone sou­dano-sahélienne du Mali
Clarisse Umutoni, Augustine Abioye Ayantunde, Germain Jérôme Sawadogo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fine‐scale spatio‐temporal niche partitioning enables coexistence of wild ungulates and livestock in a resource‐limited Himalayan landscape, India

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, Khursheed Ahmad, Orus Ilyas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physiological and productive response of lactating dairy cows to the alpine transhumance at the end of the summer grazing*

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, Marta Brscic, Isabella Lora, Barbara Contiero, Giulio Cozzi   +4 more
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Cattle transhumance and agropastoral nomadic herding practices in Central Cameroon

BMC Veterinary Research, 2018
Background In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock transhumance represents a key adaptation strategy to environmental variability. In this context, seasonal livestock transhumance also plays an important role in driving the dynamics of multiple livestock ...
Paolo Motta, Thibaud Porphyre, Saidou M. Hamman, Kenton L. Morgan, Victor Ngu Ngwa, Vincent N. Tanya, Eran Raizman, Ian G. Handel, Barend Mark Bronsvoort   +8 more
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Assessing the Environmental Suitability for Transhumance in Support of Conflict Prevention in the Sahel

Remote Sensing, 2022
Increasing conflicts between farmers and pastoralists continue to be a major challenge in the Sahel. Political and social factors are in tandem important underlying determinants for conflicts in the region, which are amplified by the variability and ...
Maximilian Schwarz, Tobias Landmann, Damien Jusselme, Eduardo Zambrano, Jens Danzeglocke, Florian Siegert, Jonas Franke   +6 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, Iride Tomažič, A. Haruda, A. Tazhekeyev, S. Bilalov, H. Härke, I. Arzhantseva, Alicia R. Ventresca‐Miller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source