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DOI	10.1007/s10531-021-02286-5
	The role of the jessour system for agrobiodiversity preservation in Southern Tunisia
	Piras, Francesco; Zanzana, Afef; Pinto, Ligia M. Costa; Fiore, Beatrice; Venturi, Martina
通讯作者	Piras, F (corresponding author), Univ Florence, Dept Agr Food Environm & Forestry DAGRI, Via San Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence, Italy.
来源期刊	BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
ISSN	0960-3115
EISSN	1572-9710
出版年	2021-09
英文摘要	Mediterranean countries are still characterized by a great variety of historical cultural landscapes, as a result of the millenary human presence that has shaped the territory through agro-silvo-pastoral practices. In the arid regions of south eastern Tunisia, the land use is predominantly olive trees cropping and, because of the difficulties related to water scarcity, local population have developed a peculiar water harvesting technique ensuring the cultivation activities and minimising the risk from droughts. Jessour consist of small dams built across gullies and wadi thalwegs, creating a succession of terraces that partially retain the surface water and sediments required for crop growth. These structures are commonly built inside the watercourses to intercept runoff and sediments or at the foot of slopes. Considering that the biodiversity associated to traditional agricultural practices is important, especially in difficult environments, for ensuring food and nutrition to local communities, it results fundamental to preserve these peculiar practices. Moreover, taking into account that the presence of these water harvesting techniques allows the existence of a wide variety of flora and fauna species it result to be even more important to identify and maintain them from an ecological point of view. The research focused on the jessour identification and mapping in order to define their distribution nearby Douiret, in south of Tunisia, and describe the wide variety of species cultivated thanks to this traditional water harvesting solution. Moreover, using QGis software it was possible to analyse both jessour structure and peculiarities as well as their distribution according to the local morphological structure.
英文关键词	Traditional water management system Jessour Agrobiodiversity Traditional knowledge
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000700553900001
WOS关键词	WATER HARVESTING TECHNIQUES ; NATURE CONSERVATION ; IMPACT ; SOIL ; CATCHMENT ; LANDSCAPE ; TRENDS
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362692
作者单位	[Piras, Francesco; Fiore, Beatrice; Venturi, Martina] Univ Florence, Dept Agr Food Environm & Forestry DAGRI, Via San Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence, Italy; [Zanzana, Afef] Univ Florence, Agr Heritage Syst, Florence, Italy; [Pinto, Ligia M. Costa] Univ Minho, NIPE Ctr Res Econ & Management, Sch Econ & Management, Braga, Portugal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Piras, Francesco,Zanzana, Afef,Pinto, Ligia M. Costa,et al. The role of the jessour system for agrobiodiversity preservation in Southern Tunisia[J],2021.
APA	Piras, Francesco,Zanzana, Afef,Pinto, Ligia M. Costa,Fiore, Beatrice,&Venturi, Martina.(2021).The role of the jessour system for agrobiodiversity preservation in Southern Tunisia.BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION.
MLA	Piras, Francesco,et al."The role of the jessour system for agrobiodiversity preservation in Southern Tunisia".BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION (2021).