Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry
Hunting is a widespread but often overlooked land-use activity, providing major benefits to society. Hunting takes place in most landscapes, yet it remains unclear which types of landscapes foster or dampen hunting-related services, and how hunting relates to other land uses. A better understanding...
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ftvuamstcris:oai:research.vu.nl:publications/e808fdc5-5c2a-427a-b4c6-13ca332000ea 2024-06-23T07:55:40+00:00 Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry Neumann, Wiebke Levers, Christian Widemo, Fredrik Singh, Navinder J. Cromsigt, Joris P.G.M. Kuemmerle, Tobias 2022-03 https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/e808fdc5-5c2a-427a-b4c6-13ca332000ea https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12882-270102 https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/e808fdc5-5c2a-427a-b4c6-13ca332000ea http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127050364&partnerID=8YFLogxK http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85127050364&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/e808fdc5-5c2a-427a-b4c6-13ca332000ea info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Neumann , W , Levers , C , Widemo , F , Singh , N J , Cromsigt , J P G M & Kuemmerle , T 2022 , ' Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry ' , Ecology and Society , vol. 27 , no. 1 , 2 , pp. 1-20 . https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12882-270102 Functional game groups Human-nature interactions Human-wildlife co-existence Land-use archetypes Northern Europe Social-ecological systems Spatial clustering Ungulate overabundance Wildlife management /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land name=SDG 15 - Life on Land article 2022 ftvuamstcris https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12882-270102 2024-06-06T00:32:23Z Hunting is a widespread but often overlooked land-use activity, providing major benefits to society. Hunting takes place in most landscapes, yet it remains unclear which types of landscapes foster or dampen hunting-related services, and how hunting relates to other land uses. A better understanding of these relationships is key for sustainable land-use planning that integrates wildlife management. This is particularly urgent for Europe, where wildlife populations are increasing. Focusing on Sweden, we explored the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry to identify archetypical combinations of these land uses. Specifically, we combined indicators on the extent and intensity of agriculture and forestry, with data on hunting bags for 63 game species using self-organizing maps, a non-parametric clustering approach. We identified 15 typical bundles of co-occurring land uses at the municipality level across Sweden. The harvest of forest grouse, bears, and moose co-occurred with forestry in northern Sweden, whereas the harvest of small game, different deer species, and wild boar co-occurred with agriculture across southern Sweden, reflecting species’ biology, environmental factors, and management. Our findings also highlight the strength of associations among hunting and other land uses. Importantly, we identified large areas in central Sweden where harvest of game was below average, possibly indicating that intensity of hunting is out of balance with that of agriculture or forestry, potentially fostering conflict between wildlife and land use. Collectively, our results suggest that (1) hunting should be considered a major land use that, in Sweden, is more widespread than agriculture and forestry; (2) land-use planning must therefore integrate wildlife management; and (3) such an integration should occur in a regionalized manner that considers social-ecological context. Our approach identifies a first spatial template within which such context-specific land-use planning, aiming at aligning ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU): Research Portal Ecology and Society 27 1 |
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Hunting is a widespread but often overlooked land-use activity, providing major benefits to society. Hunting takes place in most landscapes, yet it remains unclear which types of landscapes foster or dampen hunting-related services, and how hunting relates to other land uses. A better understanding of these relationships is key for sustainable land-use planning that integrates wildlife management. This is particularly urgent for Europe, where wildlife populations are increasing. Focusing on Sweden, we explored the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry to identify archetypical combinations of these land uses. Specifically, we combined indicators on the extent and intensity of agriculture and forestry, with data on hunting bags for 63 game species using self-organizing maps, a non-parametric clustering approach. We identified 15 typical bundles of co-occurring land uses at the municipality level across Sweden. The harvest of forest grouse, bears, and moose co-occurred with forestry in northern Sweden, whereas the harvest of small game, different deer species, and wild boar co-occurred with agriculture across southern Sweden, reflecting species’ biology, environmental factors, and management. Our findings also highlight the strength of associations among hunting and other land uses. Importantly, we identified large areas in central Sweden where harvest of game was below average, possibly indicating that intensity of hunting is out of balance with that of agriculture or forestry, potentially fostering conflict between wildlife and land use. Collectively, our results suggest that (1) hunting should be considered a major land use that, in Sweden, is more widespread than agriculture and forestry; (2) land-use planning must therefore integrate wildlife management; and (3) such an integration should occur in a regionalized manner that considers social-ecological context. Our approach identifies a first spatial template within which such context-specific land-use planning, aiming at aligning ... |
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Neumann , W , Levers , C , Widemo , F , Singh , N J , Cromsigt , J P G M & Kuemmerle , T 2022 , ' Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry ' , Ecology and Society , vol. 27 , no. 1 , 2 , pp. 1-20 . https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12882-270102 |
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