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Mapping cumulative pressures on the grazing lands of northern Fennoscandia
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; The Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4641-0932
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; The Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2022 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 12, no 1, article id 16044Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Traditional grazing areas in Europe have declined substantially over the last century. Specifically, in northern Fennoscandia, the grazing land is disturbed by cumulative land-use pressures. Here we analysed the configuration of the grazing land for reindeer and sheep in northern Fennoscandia in relation to the concurrent land-use pressures from tourism, road and railway networks, forestry, industrial and wind energy facilities, together with predator presence and climate change. Our results show that 85% of the region is affected by at least one land-use pressure and 60% is affected by multiple land-use pressures, co-occurring with predator presence and rising temperatures. As such, a majority of the grazing land is exposed to cumulative pressures in northern Fennoscandia. We stress that, if the expansion of cumulative pressures leads to grazing abandonment of disturbed areas and grazing intensification in other areas, it could irreversibly change northern vegetation and the Fennoscandian mountain landscape.

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Nature Publishing Group, 2022. Vol. 12, no 1, article id 16044
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Ecology Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-200357DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20095-wISI: 000862424900005PubMedID: 36180474Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85139183728OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-200357DiVA, id: diva2:1712215
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