The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change
The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention independent of climate change. The latter includes the expansion of private, civil and military activity and infrastructure and the...
Published in: | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
Frontiers Media SA
2021
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685/full |
id |
crfrontiers:10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crfrontiers:10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 2024-03-31T07:52:43+00:00 The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change Tyler, Nicholas J. C. Hanssen-Bauer, Inger Førland, Eirik J. Nellemann, Christian 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems volume 4 ISSN 2571-581X Horticulture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology Food Science Global and Planetary Change journal-article 2021 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 2024-03-05T00:18:47Z The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention independent of climate change. The latter includes the expansion of private, civil and military activity and infrastructure and the erosion of land rights. We used Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway as a model in which to examine trends in, and to compare the influence of, both effects on a pastoral grazing system. Downscaled projections of mean annual temperature over the principal winter pasture area (Finnmarksvidda) closely matched empirical observations across 34 years to 2018. The area, therefore, is not only warming but seems likely to continue to do so. Warming notwithstanding, 50-year (1969–2018) records of local weather (temperature, precipitation and characteristics of the snowpack) demonstrate considerable annual and decadal variation which also seems likely to continue and alternately to amplify and to counter net warming. Warming, moreover, has both positive and negative effects on ecosystem services that influence reindeer. The effects of climate change on reindeer pastoralism are evidently neither temporally nor spatially uniform, nor indeed is the role of climate change as a driver of change in pastoralism even clear. The effects of human intervention on the system, by contrast, are clear and largely negative. Gradual liberalization of grazing rights from the 18 th Century has been countered by extensive loss of reindeer pasture. Access to ~50% of traditional winter pasture was lost in the 19 th Century owing to the closure of international borders to the passage of herders and their reindeer. Subsequent to this the area of undisturbed pasture within Norway has decreased by 71%. Loss of pasture due to piecemeal development of infrastructure and to administrative encroachment that erodes herders' freedom of action on the land that remains to them, are the principal threats to reindeer husbandry in Norway today. These tangible ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Finnmarksvidda reindeer husbandry saami Frontiers (Publisher) Norway Finnmarksvidda ENVELOPE(23.744,23.744,69.113,69.113) Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Frontiers (Publisher) |
op_collection_id |
crfrontiers |
language |
unknown |
topic |
Horticulture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology Food Science Global and Planetary Change |
spellingShingle |
Horticulture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology Food Science Global and Planetary Change Tyler, Nicholas J. C. Hanssen-Bauer, Inger Førland, Eirik J. Nellemann, Christian The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change |
topic_facet |
Horticulture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology Food Science Global and Planetary Change |
description |
The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention independent of climate change. The latter includes the expansion of private, civil and military activity and infrastructure and the erosion of land rights. We used Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway as a model in which to examine trends in, and to compare the influence of, both effects on a pastoral grazing system. Downscaled projections of mean annual temperature over the principal winter pasture area (Finnmarksvidda) closely matched empirical observations across 34 years to 2018. The area, therefore, is not only warming but seems likely to continue to do so. Warming notwithstanding, 50-year (1969–2018) records of local weather (temperature, precipitation and characteristics of the snowpack) demonstrate considerable annual and decadal variation which also seems likely to continue and alternately to amplify and to counter net warming. Warming, moreover, has both positive and negative effects on ecosystem services that influence reindeer. The effects of climate change on reindeer pastoralism are evidently neither temporally nor spatially uniform, nor indeed is the role of climate change as a driver of change in pastoralism even clear. The effects of human intervention on the system, by contrast, are clear and largely negative. Gradual liberalization of grazing rights from the 18 th Century has been countered by extensive loss of reindeer pasture. Access to ~50% of traditional winter pasture was lost in the 19 th Century owing to the closure of international borders to the passage of herders and their reindeer. Subsequent to this the area of undisturbed pasture within Norway has decreased by 71%. Loss of pasture due to piecemeal development of infrastructure and to administrative encroachment that erodes herders' freedom of action on the land that remains to them, are the principal threats to reindeer husbandry in Norway today. These tangible ... |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Tyler, Nicholas J. C. Hanssen-Bauer, Inger Førland, Eirik J. Nellemann, Christian |
author_facet |
Tyler, Nicholas J. C. Hanssen-Bauer, Inger Førland, Eirik J. Nellemann, Christian |
author_sort |
Tyler, Nicholas J. C. |
title |
The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change |
title_short |
The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change |
title_full |
The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change |
title_fullStr |
The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change |
title_full_unstemmed |
The Shrinking Resource Base of Pastoralism: Saami Reindeer Husbandry in a Climate of Change |
title_sort |
shrinking resource base of pastoralism: saami reindeer husbandry in a climate of change |
publisher |
Frontiers Media SA |
publishDate |
2021 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685/full |
long_lat |
ENVELOPE(23.744,23.744,69.113,69.113) |
geographic |
Norway Finnmarksvidda |
geographic_facet |
Norway Finnmarksvidda |
genre |
Finnmarksvidda reindeer husbandry saami |
genre_facet |
Finnmarksvidda reindeer husbandry saami |
op_source |
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems volume 4 ISSN 2571-581X |
op_rights |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.585685 |
container_title |
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems |
container_volume |
4 |
_version_ |
1795032001452965888 |