T7.5 Derived semi-natural pastures and old fields

T7. Intensive land-use biome

T7

Profile summary

Full profile at https://global-ecosystems.org/explore/groups/T7.5

Brief description

These managed ecosystems are derived from a range of other ecosystems (mostly from biome T1 - biome T4, a few from biome T5) by the removal or modification of woody plant components. The remaining vegetation includes both local indigenous species and introduced species, providing habitat for a mixed indigenous and non-indigenous fauna. They are used mainly for livestock grazing, which is essential to maintaining the structure of the system. Unlike sown pastures, inputs of water and nutrients are limited. Although structurally simpler than the systems from which they were derived, they often harbour an appreciable diversity of native organisms.

Key features

Extensively used, low-input grasslands (no or moderate fertilizer application, no sowing), rich in vascular plant species.

Overview of distribution

In humid or sub-humid, boreal to tropical climates worldwide, mostly in regions with long agricultural tradition (e.g. Europe, western Asia).

Map description

Major and minor occurrences were initially identified using consensus land-cover maps (Tuanmu et al. 2014) and then cropped to selected terrestrial ecoregions (Dinerstein et al. 2017) at 30 arc seconds spatial resolution. Ecoregions were selected if: i) their descriptions mentioned features consistent with those identified in the profile of the Ecosystem Functional Group; and ii) if their location was consistent with the ecological drivers described in the profile..

Map code and version: T7.5.web.mix v1.0. DOI

Version history

Profile versions

  • v2.1 (2022-04-06): DA Keith; PW Bogaart.1
  • v2.01 (NA): NA.
  • v2.0 (2020-06-15): DA Keith; PW Bogaart.
  • v1.0 (2020-02-28): DA Keith.
  • v1.0 (2020-05-18): DA Keith.

Available maps

Read more details about the current map versions here.

  • Indicative Map (code: T7.5.WM.nwx, version v2.0)

Read more details about older or alternative versions of maps for this functional group.

  • Web navigation: requires review (code: T7.5.web.orig, version v2.0)
  • Web navigation: requires review (code: T7.5.web.orig, version v1.0)
  • Web navigation: superceeded (code: T7.5.web.mix, version v1.0)
  • Indicative Map: requires review (code: T7.5.IM.mix, version v1.0)
  • Web navigation: superceeded (code: T7.5.WM.nwx, version v1.0)
  • Indicative Map: discarded (code: T7.5.IM.orig, version v1.0)

References

Main references

References used in the different versions of the profiles.

  • Cramer VA, Hobbs RJ, Standish RJ (2008) What’s new about old fields? Land abandonment and ecosystem assembly. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23, 104-112.
  • García-Feced, Weissteiner CJ, Baraldi A, Paracchini MA, Maes J, Zulian G, Kempen M, Elbersen B, Pérez-Sob M (2015) Semi-natural vegetation in agricultural land: European map and links to ecosystem service supply. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 35, 273–283.
  • Krauss J, Bommarco R, Guardiola M, Heikkinen RK, Helm A, Kuussaari M, Lindborg R, Öckinger E, Pärtel M, Pino J, Pöyry J, Raatikainen KM, Sang A, Stefanescu C, Teder T, Zobel M, Steffan-Dewenter I (2010) Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels. Ecology Letters 13, 597–605.

Map references

References used in the different versions of the maps (current and discarded).

  • Dinerstein E, Olson D, Joshi A, Vynne C, Burgess ND, Wikramanayake E, Hahn N, Palminteri S, Hedao P, Noss R, Hansen M, Locke H, Ellis EE, Jones B, Barber CV, Hayes R, Kormos C, Martin V, Crist E, Sechrest W, Price L, Baillie JEM, Weeden D, Suckling K, Davis C, Sizer N, Moore R, Thau D, Birch T, Potapov P, Turubanova S, Tyukavina A, de Souza N, Pintea L, Brito JC, Llewellyn Barnekow Lillesø JP, van Breugel P, Graudal L, Voge M, Al-Shammari KF, Saleem M (2017) An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience 67: 534–545. DOI:10.1093/biosci/bix014. Data-set available on-line
  • Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube, Fridolin Krausmann, Christoph Plutzar, Alberte Bondeau & Helmut Haberl (2007) A comprehensive global 5 min resolution land-use data set for the year 2000 consistent with national census data Journal of Land Use Science 2:3, 191-224 DOI:10.1080/17474230701622981
  • Helmut Haberl, K. Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Christoph Plutzar, Simone Gingrich, Wolfgang Lucht, Marina Fischer-Kowalski (2007) Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth’s terrestrial ecosystems Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (31) 12942-12947 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0704243104
  • Monfreda CN, Ramankutty N, Foley JA (2008) Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22: GB1022
  • Tuanmu, M.-N. and W. Jetz (2014) A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modeling Global Ecology and Biogeography 23(9):1031–1045 DOI:10.1111/geb.12182

Footnotes

  1. This is the current version available at official site.↩︎