Pastoreo en áreas de montaña: Estrategias e impactos en el territorio

Abstract

Mountains represent preferent areas for extensive livestock based on natural resources, and therefore a large amount of scientific literature dealing with pastoralism and the integration between grassland and livestock grazing. The present article provides a bibliographical review about pastoralism in mountain areas, using Scopus database as main data source. Pastoral strategies (nomadism, trashumance and agropastoralism), its impacts on the environment (density and structure of vegetation, soil erosion⋯), the role of local breeds and complementarities between different cattle types are emphasized in this review. This article underlines recent changes in mountain pastoralism.