The Danube Basin is the most extensive part of Central European basin area (with Czech- and Vienna Basins). critical peculiarity geographical landscape significant expansion temporarily or permanently water-covered areas. In traditional age, size regions depended to a degree on climate changes. important regional that global changes in are reflected primarily not temperature but rather levels p...

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are an attractant to carnivores; however, often accompanied by humans and livestock guardian dogs (LGDs; Canis familiaris), which defend from depredation. Sheep also compete directly with wildlife for grazing resources. Although practiced millennia in much of the world outside North America, effect that transhumance has on is poorly understood. To test bands (sheep, ...

Abstract Finding sufficient natural fodder resources to feed livestock has become a challenge for herders in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso. Despite existence pastoral reserves, issue shortage remains unsolved. This article highlights changes behaviour and evolution practices caused by scarcity forage resources. These are defined classified as resilience strategies. Thus, this paper aims analys...

Lichens are valuable bio-indicators for evaluating the consequences of human activities that are increasingly changing the earth's ecosystems. Since a major objective of national parks is the preservation of biodiversity, our aim is to analyse how natural resource management, the availability of lichen substrates and environmental parameters influence lichen diversity in Rodnei Mountains Nation...

92% of the 38 responding countries conduct livestock census, of which 18 follow scheduled programmes. Of the 15 countries that have an ad hoc programme, only 8 have legislation supporting livestock census either within the veterinary services, the central statistics authority or to a limited extent within the Ministry of Livestock/Agriculture. There was no apparent relationship between absence ...

Livestock grazing in drylands supports pastoral livelihoods but is facing multiple changes including shocks such as severe droughts. Herdsmen specifically cite drought events as a reason for the abandonment of their transhumance practices. The purpose of this study is to assess the relevance of drought as a driving force for losses of livelihood security leading to a specific systemic change – ...