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Assessing multifunctional mountain landscape in an Eastern European framework

open access: yesGeographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2026.
The research introduces the Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI), a novel tool for assessing multifunctional landscape sustainability. By integrating biological, cultural, and socio‐economic indicators, the BRI identifies vulnerable areas and informs strategies for sustainable management.
Viorel Gligor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesItalian 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
doaj   +1 more source

So close yet so far: Movement patterns of livestock guarding dogs in a shared landscape in Romania

open access: yesEcological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 2, April/June 2026.
We used GPS collars to track 36 livestock guarding dogs (LGDs) from 11 sheep flocks in the Romanian Carpathians to assess how closely they remained with their sheep and how often they roamed in a landscape shared with people and large carnivores. Overall, LGDs were attentive, typically staying within 100 m of sheep at night and 200 m during the day ...
Bethany R. Smith   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cattle transhumance and agropastoral nomadic herding practices in Central Cameroon

open access: yesBMC 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Environmental Suitability for Transhumance in Support of Conflict Prevention in the Sahel

open access: yesRemote 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transhumance and nomadism in the sylvo-pastoral region (Ferlo) of Senegal : Perspectives for pastoral development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In Senegal, pastoral mobility has developed greatly over the last years as an adaptation to new environmental conditions. Competition for access to resources has increased (greater need for farms and btùldings, need to get new pasturing zones available ...
Ancey, Véronique   +4 more
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The Tratturo Magno 3.0: How the Experiential Tourism and the Social Media Could Support the Rebirth of the Ancient Street of the Transhumance

open access: yesAlmatourism, 2019
This work deals with the new tourist system that is growing along the track of the Tratturo Magno between L’Aquila and Foggia, its high tech development and its presence on the social media.
Antonio Caso
doaj   +1 more source

L’élevage transhumant en Italie centrale [PDF]

open access: yesChronique des activités archéologiques de l’École française de Rome, 2019
Au mois d’aout 2018 a ete conduite une campagne de prospections et d’etude des vestiges de l’activite pastorale dans les Abruzzes, dans la region de L’Aquila, dans le cadre du programme TRAN. L’elevage transhumant en Italie centrale (EFR, 2017-2021).
Bourdin, Stéphane   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Warming Leads to Biomass Increase, Leaf Nitrogen Decline, and Community Turnover in Mediterranean Nardus stricta Grasslands

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
Experimental warming in Mediterranean subalpine Nardus stricta grasslands increased plant biomass and species richness. However, it drove community turnover, reduced the abundance of cold‐adapted endemics, and lowered leaf nitrogen content, indicating declining forage quality.
Marta Correia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Daniel Salau Rogei
wiley   +1 more source

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