Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
DOI | 10.1071/RJ15052 |
Comparison of animal biodiversity in three livestock systems of open environments of the semi-arid Chaco of Argentina | |
Marinaro, Sofia1,2; Grau, Ricardo H.1,2 | |
通讯作者 | Marinaro, Sofia |
来源期刊 | RANGELAND JOURNAL
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ISSN | 1036-9872 |
EISSN | 1834-7541 |
出版年 | 2015 |
卷号 | 37期号:5页码:497-505 |
英文摘要 | Increasing global food demand requires the exploration of agricultural production systems that minimise the conflict between food production and biodiversity conservation. Cattle ranching is a main land-use in tropical and sub-tropical South American semi-arid ecosystems, such as the Chaco eco-region of sub-tropical Argentina, one of the most active frontiers of land-use change. Despite open habits being a key component of the Chaco landscape, conservation studies and policies have focussed on forests. In this study, bird and mammal communities of three different open-canopy livestock-producing systems in the semi-arid Argentinian Chaco: natural grasslands, sown non-native pastures and silvopastoral systems are discussed. Diversity (Inverse Simpson index) and species composition (multivariate ordinations) were measured and species identified that characterise each system (indicator species). The three livestock systems did not significantly differ in terms of diversity but showed differences in the composition of bird communities. Natural grasslands had the highest number of bird and mammal indicator species (including Myrmecophaga tridactyla, a high conservation-value species). These results highlight natural grasslands as a landscape unit with a high conservation value and indicate that they should be explicitly targeted by conservation and land-use policies, particularly because they represent a small and rapidly decreasing proportion of the semi-arid Argentinian Chaco. |
英文关键词 | biodiversity conservation native grasslands rangeland communities savanna ecology semi-arid rangelands |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Argentina |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000365187600007 |
WOS关键词 | LAND-USE ; DRY CHACO ; FOREST ; DEFORESTATION ; DIVERSITY ; EMISSIONS ; CONSERVATION ; AGRICULTURE ; DEGRADATION ; VEGETATION |
WOS类目 | Ecology |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/190125 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Nacl Tucuman, CONICET, Inst Ecol Reg, Fac Ciencias Nat, RA-4000 San Miguel De Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina; 2.Univ Nacl Tucuman, CONICET, Inst Miguel Lillo, RA-4000 San Miguel De Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marinaro, Sofia,Grau, Ricardo H.. Comparison of animal biodiversity in three livestock systems of open environments of the semi-arid Chaco of Argentina[J],2015,37(5):497-505. |
APA | Marinaro, Sofia,&Grau, Ricardo H..(2015).Comparison of animal biodiversity in three livestock systems of open environments of the semi-arid Chaco of Argentina.RANGELAND JOURNAL,37(5),497-505. |
MLA | Marinaro, Sofia,et al."Comparison of animal biodiversity in three livestock systems of open environments of the semi-arid Chaco of Argentina".RANGELAND JOURNAL 37.5(2015):497-505. |
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