Disruption of traditional land use regimes causes an economic loss of provisioning services in high-mountain grasslands

Durán Lázaro, María; Canals Tresserras, Rosa María; Sáez Istilart, José Luis; Ferrer Lorés, V.; Lera López, Fernando

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Disruption of traditional land use regimes causes an economic loss of provisioning services in high-mountain grasslands

dc.contributor.author	Durán Lázaro, María
dc.contributor.author	Canals Tresserras, Rosa María
dc.contributor.author	Sáez Istilart, José Luis
dc.contributor.author	Ferrer Lorés, V.
dc.contributor.author	Lera López, Fernando
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.contributor.department	Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD	en
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.contributor.funder	Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa	es
dc.date.accessioned	2021-09-03T08:46:03Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-01T00:00:15Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Mountain ecosystems face many challenges related to global change. Most high-altitude grasslands in the Pyrenees, despite representing valuable assets recognised in the European conservation heritage, are at risk due to the decline of traditional extensive ranging. This research intends to quantify economically the loss of the provisioning service of high-quality food for livestock of an upland area on the western side of the range. The area is experiencing degradation due to the expansion of the native tall-grass Brachypodium rupestre, favoured by disruption of traditional grazing and anthropogenic fire regimes. We implement the substitution economic approach and use floristic and husbandry data to determine that the loss of food rations for livestock results in an unitary cost of 107 (sic).ha(-1).year(-1), amounting to 21146 (sic) for the whole degraded area, according to the most conservative estimate. The study also finds evidence that the decline in grassland value is closely associated with the digestibility to herbivores of B. rupestre during the growing season. This approach may be an effective tool to raise awareness of the problem among local and regional stakeholders and encourage further environmental actions to prevent the degradation.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The project was financially supported by the INTERREG SUDOE Program (European Regional Development Fund, Open2preserve Project-SOE2/P5/E0804), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CGL2011-29746) and the UPNA's PhD programme to M. Duran (2017-2021).	en
dc.embargo.lift	2022-12-01
dc.embargo.terms	2022-12-01
dc.format.extent	15 p.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101200
dc.identifier.issn	2212-0416
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/40402
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Ecosystem Services, 46 (2020) 101200	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CGL2011-29746/ES/	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101200
dc.rights	© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0	en
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.rights.accessRights	Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	High-altitude grasslands	en
dc.subject	Environmental damage	en
dc.subject	Special area of conservation	en
dc.subject	Expanding species	en
dc.subject	Environmental evaluation	en
dc.subject	Substitution methods	en
dc.subject	Ecosystem services	en
dc.title	Disruption of traditional land use regimes causes an economic loss of provisioning services in high-mountain grasslands	en
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