Mini-Symposium
Traditional pastoral landscapes provide
a high biodiversity in terms of habitat, structure, ecosystem and
species diversity from the landscape to the micro scale. Important
reasons are that large herbivores, if they are allowed to freely
select their fodder resources on large areas, produce disturbances of
different spatial and temporal dimensions. This triggers population
and ecosystem dynamics. Additionally evidence arises that large
herbivores are important dispersal vectors for seeds and animals. The
approach to use such important controlling factors for restoring
ecosystems and landscapes that lost their biodiversity has been
applied in many landscapes throughout Europe such as marshlands,
mires, river valleys, forests, heath and dry grassland ecosystems.
What are the lessons learned from these projects in terms of
restoration success?
Session
organiser/chair: Gert Rosenthal
(University of Stuttgart, Germany), Bettina
Burkart (University of Freiburg, Germany), Mirijam
Gaertner
(University of Freiburg, Germany), Angelika
Schwabe-Kratochwil (Darmstadt University of Technology,
Germany)
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