ABSTRACT

This paper presents an original approach for identifying and mapping agricultural landscapes that are highly representative of different biogeographical and natural settings and likely to be traditional, at the national scale. In the case study of Italy, we used national land cover data of different dates to examine composition of agricultural types and their persistence over time while we employed national stratifications into ecoregions and potential natural vegetation (PNV) to include environmental representativeness. Implementing the procedure returned 120 landscapes, which are distributed across all ecoregions and 51% of the PNV types. Most landscapes match areas with certified and traditional produce (93%) and relevant potential vegetation (86%), whereas 30% overlap acknowledged historical rural landscapes. These results show that our approach highlights the coevolutionary process between traditional crops and the underlying environmental framework and, therefore, provides an ecologically sound coarse filter for selecting and mapping traditional agricultural landscapes.

摘要

本文提出了一种原始方法，用于在国家范围内识别和绘制对不同生物地理和自然环境具有高度代表性并且可能是传统的农业景观。在意大利的案例研究中，我们使用不同日期的国家土地覆盖数据来检查农业类型的组成及其随时间的持久性，同时我们将国家分层用于生态区和潜在的自然植被 (PNV)，以包括环境代表性。实施该程序返回了 120 个景观，它们分布在所有生态区和 51% 的 PNV 类型中。大多数景观与具有认证和传统产品 (93%) 和相关潜在植被 (86%) 的区域相匹配，而 30% 与公认的历史乡村景观重叠。