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Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool
Wild geese foraging on farmland cause increasing conflicts with agricultural interests, calling for a strategic approach to mitigation. In central Norway, conflicts between farmers and spring-staging pink-footed geese feeding on pastures have escalated. To alleviate the conflict, a scheme by which f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24668579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0515-x |
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author | Madsen, Jesper Bjerrum, Morten Tombre, Ingunn M. |
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description | Wild geese foraging on farmland cause increasing conflicts with agricultural interests, calling for a strategic approach to mitigation. In central Norway, conflicts between farmers and spring-staging pink-footed geese feeding on pastures have escalated. To alleviate the conflict, a scheme by which farmers are subsidized to allow geese to forage undisturbed was introduced. To guide allocation of subsidies, an ecological-based ranking of fields at a regional level was recommended and applied. Here we evaluate the scheme. On average, 40 % of subsidized fields were in the top 5 % of the ranking, and 80 % were within the top 20 %. Goose grazing pressure on subsidized pastures was 13 times higher compared to a stratified random selection of non-subsidized pastures, capturing 67 % of the pasture feeding geese despite that subsidized fields only comprised 13 % of the grassland area. Close dialogue between scientists and managers is regarded as a key to the success of the scheme. |
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spelling | pubmed-41658332014-09-25 Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool Madsen, Jesper Bjerrum, Morten Tombre, Ingunn M. Ambio Report Wild geese foraging on farmland cause increasing conflicts with agricultural interests, calling for a strategic approach to mitigation. In central Norway, conflicts between farmers and spring-staging pink-footed geese feeding on pastures have escalated. To alleviate the conflict, a scheme by which farmers are subsidized to allow geese to forage undisturbed was introduced. To guide allocation of subsidies, an ecological-based ranking of fields at a regional level was recommended and applied. Here we evaluate the scheme. On average, 40 % of subsidized fields were in the top 5 % of the ranking, and 80 % were within the top 20 %. Goose grazing pressure on subsidized pastures was 13 times higher compared to a stratified random selection of non-subsidized pastures, capturing 67 % of the pasture feeding geese despite that subsidized fields only comprised 13 % of the grassland area. Close dialogue between scientists and managers is regarded as a key to the success of the scheme. Springer Netherlands 2014-03-26 2014-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4165833/ /pubmed/24668579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0515-x Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Report Madsen, Jesper Bjerrum, Morten Tombre, Ingunn M. Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool |
title | Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool |
title_full | Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool |
title_fullStr | Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool |
title_full_unstemmed | Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool |
title_short | Regional Management of Farmland Feeding Geese Using an Ecological Prioritization Tool |
title_sort | regional management of farmland feeding geese using an ecological prioritization tool |
topic | Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24668579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0515-x |
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