Why geese benefit from the transition from natural vegetation to agriculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10889484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A D Fox (0000-0001-8083-7633, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Kenneth F Abraham (0000-0002-0348-048X, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | S2 |
| Pages | 188-197 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AMBIO (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-016-0879-1 |
| PMID | 28215009 |
| OpenAlex | W2588418841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 50 |
The energy and nutrient content of most agricultural crops are as good as or superior to natural foods for wild geese and they tend to be available in agricultural landscapes in far greater abundance. Artificial grasslands (fertilised native swards and intensively managed reseeds) offer far superior quality forage and higher intake rates than seminatural or natural grasslands. The availability of such abundant artificial food explains the abandonment of traditional habitats for farmland by geese over the last 50-100 years and favours no reduction in current levels of exploitation of agriculture. Continental scale spatial and temporal shifts among geese undergoing spring fattening confirm their flexibility to respond rapidly to broadscale changes in agriculture. These dramatic changes support the hypothesis that use of agricultural landscapes has contributed to elevated reproductive success and that European and North American farmland currently provides unrestricted winter carrying capacity for goose populations formerly limited by wetlands habitats prior to the agrarian revolution of the last century
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Biology · Economics · Geography · Natural (archaeology) · Natural resource economics · Transition (genetics) · Vegetation (pathology) · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies · Environmental Science · Medicine · Plant and animal studies · Plant Reproductive Biology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |