Eco-cultural Comparison of Alpine Farming Methods in Val Senales and Vercenik Valley Under Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

Assigned Session: FS 3.127: Mountain futures – Assessing challenges and co-producing solutions to mountain-social-ecological futures

Abstract ID: 3.5223 | Pending | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA

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Wellstein, Camilla (1), Tauber, Elisabeth (1), Ugurlu, Emin (1)
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Wellstein, Camilla (1), Tauber, Elisabeth (1), Ugurlu, Emin (1)

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(1) Free University of Bolzano, Universitätsplatz 1 - piazza Universita , 1 Italy - 39100, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(2) Bursa Technical University, Mimarsinan Mahallesi, Mimar Sinan Bulvarı, Eflak Cd. No:177, 16310, Yıldırım, Türkiye

(1) Free University of Bolzano, Universitätsplatz 1 - piazza Universita , 1 Italy - 39100, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(2) Bursa Technical University, Mimarsinan Mahallesi, Mimar Sinan Bulvarı, Eflak Cd. No:177, 16310, Yıldırım, Türkiye

Categories: Anthropology, Biodiversity, Culture, Ecosystems
Keywords: Pasture management, Ethnography, Cultural ecology, Transhumance

Categories: Anthropology, Biodiversity, Culture, Ecosystems
Keywords: Pasture management, Ethnography, Cultural ecology, Transhumance

Transhumance is one of the oldest traditional agricultural methods in Val Senales, Italy, and in the Western Pontic Mountains, Turkey, and plays a huge role in shaping the mountain ecosystem. In Turkey, shepherds implement components of thousands of years of knowledge of pasture management but in Val Senales, pasture management was implemented on a similar landscape since Ötzi time. The aim of the paper focuses on the grazing species by the flocks on their summer routes in June and the cover values of dominant plant species using NDVI from drone orthophotos taken 35 meters high from the land of all the grazing sectors. Also, ethnography has been used to collect the traditional ecological knowledge of the shepherds. The paper is based on comparative ecological and ethnographic research of Val Senales, Italy, and Vercenik Valley in the Western Pontic mountains in Turkey. The herbarium technique was used in the grazing sectors to collect plant species that were grazed by the flock. These two regions have similar alpine climates, but different cultural backgrounds and pasture management methods based on shepherds’ knowledge. This bi-disciplinary research analyses how traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge are coherent in transhumance and alpine farming systems. Spending time with the shepherds in both valleys in the summer months, the flocks’ monthly and daily grazing routes were mapped. Therefore, the dominant plant species were determined along the path from barns to the high pasture areas. The coherence of anthropological and ecological results might help create new policymaking of pasture management, shaping the alpine landscape and shepherds’ lives.


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