Sérgio Godinho, Nuno Guiomar, Rui Machado, Pedro Santos, Paulo Sá-Sousa, João Paulo Fernandes, Nuno Neves, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
Montado decline has been reported since the end of the nineteenth century in southern Portugal and increased ... socioeconomic issues. An assessment on the pattern of montado distribution was conducted to reveal how the extent ... management, environmental variables, and spatial factors contributed to montado area loss in southern Portugal from 1990 to ... total of 14 independent variables, presumably related to montado loss, were grouped into three sets: environmental variables, ... 2006, approximately 90,054 ha disappeared in the montado area, with an estimated annual regression rate of ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture and Rural Development Research
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Mara Almeida, Carla Azeda, Nuno Guiomar, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
The Portuguese silvo-pastoral system montado is broadly classified as a High Nature Value (HNV) system since it corresponds to farmland hosting high biodiversity levels, and such ... recent decades a decline both in the total montado area and in the tree cover density within the montado has been observed, driven mainly by management changes. ... aspect determining the long-term sustainability of the montado system and it has implications also on the montado structural diversity, particularly on connectivity and heterogeneity, which ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture and Rural Development Research
2015 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Nuno Guiomar, Sérgio Godinho, Paulo M. Fernandes, Rui Machado, Nuno Neves, João Paulo Fernandes,
... infrequent in the oak woodlands of southern Portugal (montado) but large and severe fires affected these agro- ... and investigated the links between fire incidence and montado change to other land cover types, particularly those ... framework for assessing the probability of transition from montado to pioneer communities, considering three sets of explanatory variables: montado patterns in 1990 and prior changes from montado to early-successional communities (occurred between 1960 and ... of the observed variability in the transitions from montado to pioneer vegetation. The contributions of fire patterns ...
Tópico(s): Soil erosion and sediment transport
2015 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
Rui Machado, Sérgio Godinho, Nuno Guiomar, Artur Gil, Janez Pirnat,
The Portuguese montado is an agro-silvopastoral system, similar to the Spanish dehesa, known for its cultural, economic and ecological value. ... with several other factors, have been responsible for montado degradation in the last decades. Biodiversitywise, assuring high ... natural processes on which a healthy and sustainable montado relies. To study the montado connectivity in the recent decades and infer what ... delimited by biogeographic boundaries in Southern Portugal where montado is abundant. We used a graph theory based ...
Tópico(s): Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Landscape Ecology
Emanuel Carreira, João Serrano, José Lopes de Castro, Shakib Shahidian, Alfredo Manuel Franco Pereira,
Montado is an agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem characteristic of the south of Portugal and called Dehesa in ... and animals—as well as the climate make Montado a highly complex ecosystem. This review article provides ... overview of the state of the art of Montado from the point of view of the agro- ... aim is: (i) to describe and characterize the Montado ecosystem, as an agro-silvo-pastoral system; (ii) ... potential to be used in the monitoring of Montado; (iii) to address other technologies, carried out in ... review consists of three chapters: (a) components of Montado and their interactions; (b) advanced technologies for monitoring ...
Tópico(s): Soil erosion and sediment transport
2023 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Applied Sciences
Sérgio Godinho, Artur Gil, Nuno Guiomar, María João Costa, Nuno Neves,
... canopy cover percentage of a savannah-like ecosystem (montado/dehesa) was estimated at Landsat pixel level for ... as explanatory variables, showed that the estimation of montado canopy cover was obtained with good agreement (R2 = 78.4%). Overall, montado canopy cover estimations showed that low canopy cover ... the most representative with 50.63% of total montado area. MODIS LSA and LST products were used ... mean annual LSA and LST values between contrasting montado canopy cover percentages. As a result, it was ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2016 - Elsevier BV | Applied Geography
Maria Isabel Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Carla Azeda, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
Mediterranean oak woodlands, Montados in Portugal and Dehesas in Spain have long been acknowledged as potential land use systems of high nature and ... practices best adapted to the balance of the Montado and Dehesa, and also to the assessment of ... so that the long term sustainability of the Montado systems is preserved. This special issue aims to contribute for the understanding of how the Montado and Dehesa classification as High Nature Value may ... different ways and implies different components of the Montado, and thus the first four papers of this ...
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Diana Surová, Peter Surový, Nuno Ribeiro, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
... covered by an agro-silvo pastoral system, the Montado. This traditional land-use system is specific, inter ... cultural and amenity functions from the countryside, the Montado management faces the challenge of integrating production with ... decision support tool (DST) for the cork oak Montado management, the CORKFITS, based on the single-tree ... as such changes affect the composition of the Montado, at both levels. The users considered are those practicing non-production functions in the Montado. Preferences were assessed through a questionnaire survey applied ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
L. Catarino, Carlos Godinho, Pedro Pereira, Luís António, João E. Rabaça,
Montados form a heterogeneous landscape of wooded matrix dominated by cork and/or holm oak with open areas characterized by fuzzy boundaries. Montado supports a high biological diversity associated to low ... Among other features this permits the classification of montados as a High Nature Value (HNV) system. We ... the role of birds as HNV indicators for montado, and tested several bird groups—farmland, edge, forest ... variables that characterize the landscape heterogeneity inside the montado—trees and shrub density and richness of woody ...
Tópico(s): Forest Management and Policy
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Sérgio Godinho, Artur Gil, Nuno Guiomar, Nuno Neves, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
... a remote sensing-based and detailed map of montado canopy density over a large territory in southern ... identifying and assessing High Nature Value farmland in montado areas. The results reveal that the FCD model ... effective approach to estimating the density classes of montado canopy (overall accuracy = 78.0 %, kappa value = 0. ... s and producer’s accuracies for the three montado canopy-density classes. Globally, the results obtained show ... thermal index are suitable for estimating and mapping montado canopy-density classes. These results constitute the first ...
Tópico(s): Remote Sensing in Agriculture
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Teresa Pinto‐Correia, Carla Azeda,
The Montado is the silvo-pastoral land use system dominant in Southern Portugal, and similar to the Dehesa in ... and services, in Portugal the area of the Montado is declining every year. It has been shown ... scale survey followed by in-depth interviews to Montado farmers. The results show that there is an underlying conflict between farmers representation of the Montado and the practices they are applying in their everyday management. Dominant representations of the Montado by farmers rely strongly on the tree cover ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture and Rural Development Research
2017 - Elsevier BV | Land Use Policy
Paulo Pereira, Manuela Pires da Fonseca,
... is dominated by a savannah-like ecosystem, the montado, which is a typically Mediterranean cultural adaptation to generally poor productive areas. Montados are exploited for three main uses: forestry, agriculture, ... ha), biodiversity would be expected to vary among montados. However, differences in management practices may also influence ... in plant and bird species diversity among 60 montados distributed all across southern Portugal. The environmental variables ... that both were equally important as drivers of montado biodiversity. Plants and birds exhibited a similar ecological ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2003 - Resilience Alliance | Conservation Ecology
Teresa Pinto‐Correia, Nuno Ribeiro, Paulo Sá-Sousa,
The Portuguese montado is an agro-silvo pastoral system quite similar to the dehesa in Spain, and covering in Portugal most ... of the country, Alentejo. The trees in the montado are cork oh holm oak, and the system ... issue covers the diversity of components of the montado and of perspectives required to understand and assess ... functioning of the system. This Editorial introduces the montado system, describes its extension and similarities to the ... addresses the multiple productions and externalities of the montado. It also refers to the several components of ...
Tópico(s): Horticultural and Viticultural Research
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Teresa Pinto‐Correia, Sérgio Godinho,
The Portuguese montado is a particular land use system, characterized by the combination, in the same area, of the forestry and ... oaks and grazing in the under cover. The montado is a production system, and its extensive character ... based on a survey to land managers of montado in a Natura 2000 site, it shows how ... cover decays in such a way that the montado disappears. This unique landscape is thus under severe ... for integrated policy goals and tools for the montado as a system, and for much more colaboration ...
Tópico(s): Forest Management and Policy
2013 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Research in rural sociology and development
Lia Laporta, Tiago Domingos, Cristina Marta-Pedroso,
... mitigation. In Portugal, the agroforestry system known as Montado (Dehesa in Spain) is heavily dependent on national ... a Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme targeting Montado landscapes in Portugal. We have assessed and valued ... intensification), focusing on cork and holm oak-dominated Montado and using biomass equations. We applied different explicit ... in the proposed PES scheme. For cork-oak Montado, our results suggest both abandonment and grazing intensification ... 6tCO2eq.ha-1.year-1, respectively), whereas maintaining Montado results in carbon sequestration (+0.9tCO2eq.ha-1. ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2021 - Elsevier BV | Land Use Policy
Richard A. Shakesby, C. O. A. Coelho, Susanne Schnabel, Jan Jacob Keizer, Mike Clarke, Joaquín Francisco Lavado Contador, R. P. D. Walsh, António Ferreira, Stefan H. Doerr,
Abstract The dehesas and montados of Spain and Portugal cover about 6 million ha and form open savannah‐type woodland comprising cork ( Quercus suber ) and ... field observations of erosion features for (a) two montado and three dehesa sites differing in terms of ... relative erosion risk. None of the dehesa or montado sites has an overall mean rank indicating an ... It is concluded that present day dehesa and montado variants can be prone to severe erosion if ...
Tópico(s): Aeolian processes and effects
2002 - Wiley | Land Degradation and Development
Lurdes Barrico, Susana Rodríguez‐Echeverría, Helena Freitas,
The montado is an agro-silvo pastoral system characterized by an open oak formation combined with shrubs or a ... present a study of the basidiomycete community in montado areas of Quercus suber L. from Central-Western ... frequent fruiting body found in the cork oak montados belonged to Lactarius, Clitocybe, Russula and Cortinarius species. ... diversity of the soil fungal community in the montado.
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2010 - Elsevier BV | European Journal of Soil Biology
... Pinto-Correira et al. 2011). They are called montado in Portugal and dehesa in Spain but represent ... Pulido 2009; Olea and San Miguel-Ayanz 2006). Montado constitutes simultaneously of a seminatural ecosystem, a multifunctional ... and Thorne 2010). Based on tree density, the montado-dehesa can shape three functional landscapes. First, it ... Martin and Fernandez-Ales 2006; Plieninger 2007). The montado may be private or communal property (usually belonging ...
Tópico(s): French Urban and Social Studies
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Annals of Forest Science
Mara Almeida, Carlos A. Guerra, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
... a result of extensive management practices. The Portuguese montado is one of the most significant HNV systems ... a specific context-oriented methodology to assess which montado areas are likely to be classified as HNV ... tested through a local case study in a montado area in southern Portugal, assessing the relation between ... vegetation cover index. Results show that in similar montado areas different land management strategies varying in stocking ... make it possible to assess the HNV of montado areas with direct and objective information and independent ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography
M. P. Simões, Anabela D. F. Belo, M Fernandes, M. Madeira,
Traditional management of montado (dehesa) is an example of integration of sustainable land-use and biodiversity conservation. The whole system sustainability is currently ... early stages was developed in a cork oak montado grazed by cattle, in southern Portugal. We specifically ... cork oak regeneration at early stages in grazed montado. Fenced cork oak paddocks under the same management ... favour successful tree regeneration in grazed cork oak montado, assuring the persistence of this system.
Tópico(s): Horticultural and Viticultural Research
2015 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Teresa Pinto‐Correia, Nuno Guiomar, Maria Isabel Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Elvira Sales-Baptista, João E. Rabaça, Carlos Godinho, Nuno Ribeiro, Paulo Sá-Sousa, Pedro Santos, Celeste Santos-Silva, M. P. Simões, Anabela D. F. Belo, L. Catarino, Pedro Beschoren da Costa, Enrique Alonso Castro Fonseca, Sérgio Godinho, Carla Azeda, M.M. Almeida, Luís Gomes, José Lopes de Castro, Rogério Louro, Maria José Silvestre, M. Vaz,
... intensity management, Portuguese oak woodland rangelands known as montados are often considered high nature value (HNV) farming ... scales, tend to support high levels of biodiversity. Montados are in sharp decline as a result of ... the relationship between grazing intensity and biodiversity in montados of similar biophysical and structural characteristics. Data on ... was lower. Using tree regeneration as proxy for montado sustainability, results show less tree regeneration in areas ...
Tópico(s): Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
2018 - Elsevier BV | Rangeland Ecology & Management
Teresa Pinto‐Correia, José Muñoz‐Rojas, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, Egon Noe,
The montado is a silvo pastoral system, and the dominant land-use in the region of Alentejo (Portugal). It ... found that underpin different governance strategies in the montado: The heritage discourse, the modern production discourse, and ... including an analysis of media representation of the montado since the 1990s, participatory observations, and 30 in- ... this is a cause of increased tensions in montado governance strategies, hindering more effective and sustainable potential ...
Tópico(s): Cooperative Studies and Economics
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Maria Helena Guimarães, Catarina Esgalhado, Maria Isabel Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
... present study, we examine the case of the Montado, an agro-silvo-pastoral system in southern Portugal, ... expanded, could reverse the current decline of the Montado system. We categorized the identified innovations as 1) ... is deemed necessary for the preservation of the Montado, yet initiatives that have existed for over 20 ... agenda that starts aligning the evolution of the Montado system with the desired future as soon as ...
Tópico(s): Rural development and sustainability
2019 - De Gruyter Open | Open Agriculture
Carla Azeda, Nuno Guiomar, Sérgio Godinho, João Paulo Medeiros, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
... and low agrochemical input systems, such as the Montado in southern Portugal, a silvo-pastoral land use ... Using an extensive cattle production system in a Montado area as a case study, this paper assesses ... AECM is promoting less intensive management practices in Montado areas, and they therefore do not contribute to ... management to understand the ongoing changes in many Montado areas. Lastly, the results also show that horizontal ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2021 - Elsevier BV | Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
Anabela Marisa Azul, José Paulo Sousa, Reinhard Agerer, María P. Martín, Helena Freitas,
... with cork oak in managed oak woodlands (called montado) under different land use practices, during summer. ECM ... were assessed in 15 stands established in nine montados located in the Alentejo region (southern Portugal), using ... and ITS rDNA analysis. Parameters related to the montados landscape characteristics, land use history over the last ... in ECM fungal community structure among the 15 montados stands: C. geophilum was the only species common ...
Tópico(s): Fungal Biology and Applications
2009 - Springer Science+Business Media | Mycorrhiza
Diana Surová, Teresa Pinto‐Correia,
... paper was to produce knowledge about how the Montado, an agrosilvopastoral system dominant in southern Portugal, supports ... rural functions associated with leisure and recreation. The Montado is recognized as a multifunctional landscape, although future ... Results regarding visitor profiles, current activities in the Montado, perceived limitations and improvements suggested by land users, ...
Tópico(s): French Urban and Social Studies
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Outlook on Agriculture
Teresa Pinto‐Correia, Filipe Barroso, Diana Surová, Helena Menezes,
... Mediterranean extensive land use systems, such as the Montado, where agricultural production is under threat, but where ... an suitable tool for assessing landscape preferences in Montado landscapes, and also that, in order to cope ... two different studies on the users preferences for Montado landscapes, applied to case-study areas in the ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Carlos Godinho, João E. Rabaça,
... Peninsula the dominant land-use are the Portuguese montados and Spanish dehesas, parkland forested areas of anthropogenic ... undisturbed patches of Mediterranean forest and scrublands. The montados are characterized by a rich bird community. We ... maintain the equilibrium in bird community associated to montados. Farmland and forest species will benefit from areas ...
Tópico(s): Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Celeste Santos-Silva, Ana Cristina Gonçalves, Rogério Louro,
... management actions that ensure macrofungal communities sustainability in montado ecosystems. The sporocarp survey was conducted once every ... the most common (cork and holm oak) open montado ecosystems in southern Portugal. Results showed that canopy ... order to enhance macrofungal richness and productivity, in montado ecosystems.
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Agroforestry Systems
Pedro Pereira, Carlos Godinho, Marisa Gomes, João E. Rabaça,
... selected with a decreasing tree density gradient: dense montado, sparse montado, and open agricultural areas. Data were analysed with ... guild was richer in galleries embedded in dense montados, and edge guild in riparian galleries surrounded by sparse montados. Five among 19 assessed species were influenced by ...
Tópico(s): Avian ecology and behavior
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Annals of Forest Science