Pasture Landscapes and Nature Conservation

Chapter 1 Pasture Landscapes and Nature Conservation — New strategies for the preservation of open landscapes in Europe

Chapter 2 Nature conservation in pastoral landscapes: Challenges, chances and constraints

Chapter 3 Nature conservation and pastoralism in Wallonia

Chapter 4 Stipa austroitalica garigues and mountain pastureland in the Pollino National Park (Calabria, Southern Italy)

Chapter 5 Landscapes of northern Spain and pastoral systems

Chapter 6 Nature conservation aspects of pastoral farming in Georgia

Chapter 7 Grazing systems and their influence on biodiversity in the region of the Dnister river

Chapter 8 Managing wood pasture landscapes in England; the New Forest and other more recent examples

Chapter 9 The role of invisible biodiversity in pasture landscapes

Chapter 10 Pasture landscapes in Germany — progress towards sustainable use of agricultural land

Chapter 11 Maintaining biodiversity and open landscapes by grazing in the County of South Jutland, Denmark

Chapter 12 Nature development along the river Scheldt: Combining ecosystem functions in the Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde polder

Chapter 13 The Border Meuse Nature Development Project Where water meets gravel meets nature …

Chapter 14 The Lake Pape: Grazing of coastal grasslands. WWF Latvia project

Chapter 15 Galloway-based grazing systems in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) — projects run by the BUNDE WISCHEN e.V. association

Chapter 16 Low intensity pig pastures as an alternative approach to habitat management

Chapter 17 The Eidertal pasture landscape — Mire restoration and species conservation in a river valley of Schleswig-Holstein (northwest Germany)

Chapter 18 Inland Sand Ecosystems: Dynamics and restitution as a consequence of the use of different grazing systems

Chapter 19 Management concepts for abandoned xerothermic slopes in the middle Rhine Valley: A case study in the sustainable development of cultural landscapes

Chapter 20 Examples of the maintenance and restoration of wood pasture sites in the UK and the potential for creation

Chapter 21 Grasslands and scrublands in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula: Silvopastoral systems and nature conservation

Chapter 22 Landscape development and species protection in woodlands, forests and pastures using large herbivores

Chapter 23 The Large Herbivore Initiative: An Eurasian conservation and restoration programme for a key species group in ecosystems (Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia)

Chapter 24 Urbanized man and the longing for a New Wilderness

Chapter 25 The significance of EU agricultural policy on the nature conservation of pastoral farmland

Chapter 26 Methods for the investigation of patterns and processes in large-scale grazing Systems

Chapter 27 Effects of large-scale cattle grazing on Orthoptera (Saltatoria et Mantodea) on pastures in Georgia (Caucasus)

Chapter 28 Does large-scale, multi-species pasturing maintain high biodiversity with rare and endangered species? — The Sava floodplain case study

Chapter 29 Large-scale grazing Systems by herdsmen and their impact on landscape patterns and biodiversity in western Ukraine’s Carpathians

Chapter 30 Co-operative grazing Systems (“Allmende”): An alternative concept for the management of endangered open and semi-open landscapes

Chapter 31 MOSAIK: Semi-open pasture and ley — a research project on keeping the cultural landscape open

Chapter 32 Natural succession in a dynamic riverine landscape and the protection of open areas

Chapter 33 Significance of pasture landscapes for nature conservation and extensive agriculture