Disentangling the Multidimensional Relationship between Livestock Breeds and Ecosystem Services
| Autor: | Alberto Bernués, Antonio Gómez-Sal, Daniel Martin-Collado, Elena Velado-Alonso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Veterinary medicine Biodiversity Livestock services Ecosystem services Livestock breed SF600-1100 Ecosystem nature-based solutions media_common biodiversity General Veterinary business.industry Environmental resource management Nature's contributions to people Nature-based solutions livestock systems QL1-991 Agriculture Sustainability Commentary Animal Science and Zoology Livestock Psychological resilience business ecosystem services livestock breed Zoology nature’s contributions to people Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname Animals, Vol 11, Iss 2548, p 2548 (2021) Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI |
| Popis: | There is an increasing interest in assessing livestock breed contributions to ecosystem services (ES) and including this knowledge in decision making. However, this task has been limited due to the complexity of the multidimensional relationship between livestock diversity and ecosystem services. In this work, we elaborate on the livestock breed characteristics central to developing a comprehensive approach to livestock breed inclusion in the ecosystem services framework. Thus, we explore the multidimensional nature of livestock breeds, i.e., as eco-cultural entities, biodiversity components, and drivers of livestock system heterogeneity and functioning. First, anthropogenic and natural factors have acted jointly to develop breeds as eco-cultural entities. This fact represents an opportunity to move toward farming system sustainability by Nature-Based Solutions and Nature’s Contribution to People paradigms. Second, livestock breeds are components of biodiversity, and as such, can be framed as goods, as final ecosystem services, and as regulators of ecosystem processes. Third, livestock breeds contribute to livestock system heterogeneity and resilience. By integrating these aspects, we might better understand how livestock breeds provide and modulate ecosystem service provision and, therefore, how to improve breed conservation and livestock policies toward farming system sustainability |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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