Essays about: "landscape heterogenity"

Found 2 essays containing the words landscape heterogenity.

  1. 1. Tame animals in the wilderness : livestock grazing around summer farms in Jämtland, boreal Sweden 1800-2011

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Felicia Olsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Forest grazing; forest history; summer farms; stocking density; skogsbete; skogshistoria; fäbodar; betestryck;

    Abstract : The forest and mire landscape surrounding the north Swedish villages have been of fundamental importance through time for the farmers. In the Scandinavian summer farm system the forest and mire pasture was used to its full potential. READ MORE

  3. 2. Effects of unsown patches in autumn-sown fields on Skylark territory densities : a study on skylark plots made in central Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Mattis Jansson; [2012]
    Keywords : Skylark; conservation action methods; skylark plots; food availability; winter cereals; autumn-sown; birds; agricultural landscape; landscape heterogenity;

    Abstract : Intensified cultivation of farmland is widely recognized to act negatively on many organisms, including birds as the Skylark (Alauda arvensis). During the last decades, this species has been showing a population decline of about 50-75 percent in northwestern Europe, including Sweden. READ MORE