The aim of the work presented is to develop and test a framework for projects combining ecological restoration with the needs of agriculture in remote, disadvantaged regions. The target is to stop unwanted processes such as encroachment of shrubs and reforestation, resulting in a degradation of the traditional cultural landscape through controlled grazing with small ruminants (sheep and goats) allowing farmers an economically viable development.

1. Landuse as Foundation for Ecological Restoration - Development of a methodological Framework Albin Blaschka, Thomas Guggenberger Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Development Establishing Links Across Frontiers 7th SER European Conference on Ecological Restoration - Avignon, 23-27 August 2010

2. Hypothesis Land use forms the basic connection between people and landscape, which is, at least partly, formalized in the theory of ecosystem goods and services

7. Conceptual Framework

10. Feeding versus Restoration Restoration defined as Function - A first heuristic approach LAU = Large Animal Unit (500kg live weight, one sheep older 1 year = 0.15 LAU) ME = Metabolizable Energy

12. Example: Vegetation Structure Intensive pasturing (September 2008) Intensive pasturing (July 2009) Pearson's Chi-squared test: X-squared = 18.6106, df = 4, p-value = 0.0009372

13. Formulation of nutrition Parameter: Need of Energy in percent (hourly basis) Yield / ha / year (PEM) LAU / ha / year 11,8 * (hours/24) (11,8 kg: Need of feed Dry Matter / LAU / day)

15. Scenarios... (Data derived from the PEM, remote sensing data: SPOT5) Minimum Containment Full use

16. Reaching the targets (Data derived from the PEM)

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