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Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solut...
Lecina-Diaz, Judit; Campos, João C.; Pais, Silvana; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Azevedo, João; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Gonçalves, João FranciscoIncreased large and high-intensity wildfires cause large socioeconomic and ecological impacts, which demand improved landscape management approaches in which both ecological and societal dimensions are integrated. Engaging society in fire management requires a better understanding of stakeholder perceptions of wildfires and landscape management. We analyze stakeholder perceptions about wildfire-landscape intera...
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contr...
Buchadas, Ana; Moreira, Francisco; McCracken, Davy; Santos, José Lima; Lomba, AngelaFarming systems under contrasting management practices can contribute differently to the delivery of bundles of ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural landscapes. Low intensity farming systems, such as High Nature Value farmlands, are expected to deliver a wider range of ES, whereas landscapes under more intensive management are expected to deliver mainly provisioning services. Understanding the management pra...
On the development of a regional climate change adaptation plan: Integrating mo...
Gonçalves, Catarina; Honrado, João P.; Cerejeira, João; Sousa, Rita; Vaz, Ana Sofia; Alves, Manuela; Araújo, Miguel; Carvalho-Santos, CláudiaClimate change is expected to have strong social-ecological implications, with global but especially regional and local challenges. To assess the climatic vulnerability of a given territory, it is necessary to evaluate its exposure to climate change and its adaptive capacity. This study describes the development of an Action Plan for Adapting to Climate Change in the Tâmega and Sousa Region, a mountainous inter...
Impacts of sheep versus cattle livestock systems on birds of Mediterranean gras...
Ramos, Rita F.; Diogo, João A.; Santana, Joana; Silva, João P.; Reino, Luís; Schindler, Stefan; Beja, Pedro; Lomba, Angela; Moreira, FranciscoMediterranean pastures are experiencing strong changes in management, involving shifts from sheep to cattle-based livestock systems. The impacts of such shifts on biodiversity are still poorly understood. Here, we sought to contrast the grazing regime, vegetation structure, bird species richness and abundance, between sheep and cattle grazed parcels, to understand the mechanisms through which management decisio...
A farming systems approach to linking agricultural policies with biodiversity a...
Santos, José Lima; Moreira, Francisco; Ribeiro, Paulo F.; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Lomba, AngelaMany countries are reshaping their agricultural policies to better enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) in farmlands, but measuring the effectiveness of policy instruments in BES delivery is challenging. Using the European Agricultural Policy as an example, we propose the application of a farming systems (FS) approach as a cost-effective tool for linking policy design and expected BES outcomes. On ...
Using fire to enhance rewilding when agricultural policies fail
Campos, João C.; Bernhardt, Julia; Aquilué, Núria; Brotons, Lluis; Dominguez, Jesus; Lomba, Angela; Marcos, Bruno; Martinez-Freiria, FernandoRewilding has been proposed as an opportunity for biodiversity conservation in abandoned landscapes. However, rewilding is challenged by the increasing fire risk associated with more flammable landscapes, and the loss of open-habitat specialist species. Contrastingly, supporting High Nature Value farmlands (HNVf) has been also highlighted as a valuable option, but the effective implementation of agricultural po...
Back to the future: rethinking socioecological systems underlying high nature v...
Lomba, Angela; Moreira, Francisco; Klimek, Sebastian; Jongman, Robert; Sullivan, Caroline; Moran, James; Poux, Xavier; Honrado, João P.Farmlands are currently among the dominant uses of the land. When managed under low-input farming systems, farmlands are associated with diverse cultural and natural heritages around the world. Known in Europe as high nature value (HNV) farmlands, these agricultural landscapes and their associated farming systems evolved as tightly coupled socioecological systems, and are essential to biodiversity conservation ...
Conservation Management of EU Priority Habitats after Collapse of Traditional P...
Honrado, João P.; Lomba, Angela; Alves, Paulo Jorge Mendes; Aguiar, Carlos; Monteiro-Henriques, T.; Cerqueira, Yvonne; Monteiro, PauloAgricultural abandonment is a major driver of change in rural landscapes. Assumed to provide beneficial results to the environment and the conservation of biota, rural abandonment triggers landscape and biotic homogenization and loss of valuable species and habitats. This article focuses on the ecological effects and conservation challenges of shifts in extensive grazing regimes on marginal pastureland of Medit...
Hierarchic species-area relationships and the management of forest habitat isla...
Lomba, Angela; Vaz, Ana Sofia; Moreira, Francisco; Honrado, João PradinhoHabitat loss and fragmentation due to land use changes are major threats to biodiversity in forest ecosystems, and they are expected to have important impacts on many taxa and at various spatial scales. Species richness and area relationships (SARs) have been used to assess species diversity patterns and drivers, and thereby in the establishment of conservation and management strategies. Here we propose a hiera...