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Ecosystem Services Provided by Pastoral Husbandry: A Bibliometric Analysis

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  • Juan Manuel Mancilla-Leytón

    (Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain
    Instituto Interuniversitario Andaluz en Robótica y Sistemas Inteligentes, “Robotics and Intelligent Systems” (RIS), Universidad de Sevilla, C/Torricelli 18–20, 41092 Seville, Spain)

  • Djamila Gribis

    (Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain)

  • Claudio Pozo-Campos

    (Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain)

  • Eduardo Morales-Jerrett

    (Departamento de Agronomía, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain)

  • Yolanda Mena

    (Departamento de Agronomía, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain)

  • Jesús Cambrollé

    (Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain
    Instituto Interuniversitario Andaluz en Robótica y Sistemas Inteligentes, “Robotics and Intelligent Systems” (RIS), Universidad de Sevilla, C/Torricelli 18–20, 41092 Seville, Spain)

  • Ángel Martín Vicente

    (Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain)

Abstract

The ecosystem services provided by the age-old activity of husbandry are presently declining or seriously endangered. The situation is particularly serious for regulation services and for certain cultural services given their growing dependence on external inputs. This work performs a bibliometric analysis for the purpose of identifying the certainties and gaps associated with the different ecosystems generated by pastoral husbandry, and confirms the pressing challenges that the livestock industry is facing in the current context of global change. Two different tools, Scopus and VOSviewer, have been implemented to analyze 2230 documents published between 1961 and 2021 that include the terms “grazing” and “service”. The information required for the bibliometric analysis of authorship, country of origin, field of study and number of citations, among other categories, was drawn from the documents to the effect of evidencing their general thematic relationships. Finally, the current state of the ecosystem services currently provided by pastoral husbandry—provisioning, regulation, cultural and support services—was assessed. The results showed a greater abundance of scientific literature on provisioning and regulation services than on cultural and support services. An increase in the number of publications from the beginning of the 21st century was confirmed. The United States stands out as the country with the largest scientific production, and environmental sciences is the most prominent field in the study of ecosystem services. A recent larger academic effort to encourage the promotion of ecosystem services from the institutions has also been observed, as well as to include them as a factor in the development of environmental policies, which is described as the greatest challenge for the future of this discipline. Among other possible solutions, the new European Union agricultural subsidies—the so-called eco-schemes—appear to be essential for that effort to bear fruit as soon as possible.

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  • Juan Manuel Mancilla-Leytón & Djamila Gribis & Claudio Pozo-Campos & Eduardo Morales-Jerrett & Yolanda Mena & Jesús Cambrollé & Ángel Martín Vicente, 2022. "Ecosystem Services Provided by Pastoral Husbandry: A Bibliometric Analysis," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-13, November.
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