Can management buffer pasture loss and fragmentation for Sami reindeer herding in Sweden?
Abstract Today, climate change and competing land use practices are threatening rangelands around the world and the pastoral societies that rely on them. Reindeer husbandry practised by the indigenous Sami people is an example. In Sweden, approximately 70% of the most productive lichen pastures (imp...
Main Authors: | Alessia Uboni, Birgitta Åhman, Jon Moen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-10-01
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Series: | Pastoralism |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13570-020-00177-y |
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