dc.contributor.author | Serrano-Zulueta, R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pardo, G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pauné, F. | |
dc.contributor.author | del Prado, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Manzano, P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-23T12:41:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-23T12:41:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Landscape Ecology: 38 (12): 3713-3729 (2023) | es_ES |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/66106 | |
dc.description.abstract | Context: There are no estimations of herbivory baselines in Spain. Due to the bioclimatic conditions, ungulates have maintained Open Ecosystems until the Holocene. Pastoral tradition later fulfilled the niche of wild grazers, but this role is not considered in environmental assessments of grazing livestock. Objectives: We attempted to better understand the scale of herbivory in Spain. We aimed to estimate the weight of current wild herbivory and evaluate the role of domestic herbivory in these baselines. We applied them to improve the allocation of environmental impacts and emissions from grazing livestock. Methods: We inferred an equation relating Net Primary Productivity (NPP) with ungulate biomass and enteric CH4 with data from 11 Spanish Protected Areas. We estimated theoretical baselines in Spain using other literature sources. We applied the equations to the Spanish open ecosystems that are currently grazable. We also estimated the proportion of grazing livestock that would be part of such baseline. Results: We found relationships between NPP and ungulate biomass and enteric CH4 emissions. However, current abundances are several times below the estimated baselines and the carrying capacity. There are major constraints for herbivore populations to reach their baseline state, particularly the absence of migration and the extinction of grazers among wild herbivores. Structural maintenance of Open Ecosystems should therefore be complemented by domestic grazers that cannot be replaced by the extant wild, mostly browser, ungulates. Conclusions: We concluded that Spain is widely susceptible to being populated by herbivores that generate Open Ecosystems as baseline landscapes. Current grazing livestock accounts for a significant part of them, so baselines must be included in their environmental assessments. For the case of Spain, we propose a minimum baseline equivalent to 36% of current grazing livestock biomass and 23% of their enteric CH4 emissions. © 2023, The Author(s). | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | Open Access funding provided by University of Helsinki (including Helsinki University Central Hospital). Financial support was provided by the Spanish Government through María de Maeztu excellence accreditation 2023–2026 (Ref. CEX2021-001201-M, funded by MCIN/AEI/1013039/501100011033); by the Basque Government through the BERC 2022–2024 program; by the CircAgric-GHG project funded by the 2nd 2021 call “Programación conjunta internacional 2021” and the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR (ref. num: PCI2021-122048-2A); and by the IUBS project “Global Integrative Pastoralism Program”. A.d.P. was funded by the Ramon y Cajal program from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (RYC-2017-22143). A.d.P. and P.M. were funded by Ikerbasque—Basque Foundation for Science. P.M. was also funded by a post-doctoral grant of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. R.S.-Z. was funded by the “Candido Iturriaga y Maria Dañobeitia” foundation and by the Ikertalent program of the Basque Government. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Landscape Ecology | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCIN/CEX2021-001201-M | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCIN/PCI2021-122048-2A | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RYC-2017-22143 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | Carrying capacity | es_ES |
dc.subject | Environmental assessment | es_ES |
dc.subject | Herbivory baselines | es_ES |
dc.subject | Land abandonment | es_ES |
dc.subject | Open Ecosystems | es_ES |
dc.title | Herbivory baseline estimates in Spanish protected areas, and environmental implications | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © The Author(s) 2023 | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01783-y | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10980-023-01783-y | |