A great part of the Alentejo region in Southern Portugal is covered by an agro-silvo pastoral system, the Montado. This traditional landuse system is specific, inter alia, in its ability to join production with favorable conditions for non-production functions. At the present time, as society positively evaluates and even demands cultural and amenity functions from the countryside, the Montado management faces ...
Os montados são sistemas de uso múltiplo, em que as várias produções estão em equilíbrio dinâmico no espaço e no tempo. Esta organização espacial e temporal conduziu à manutenção do sistema produtivo pela redução dos riscos inerentes a cada produção, face à variabilidade climática característica do clima mediterrânico. Os montados são característicos do sul de Portugal, sendo mais frequentes os de sobreiro. Nos...
Alentejo cork oak stands are crucial in terms of cork production and sustainability of agrosilvopastoral systems, therefore the development of a tool that allows site zoning, according to cork oak establishment and growth potentials is worthwhile. The site potential and consequently tree development are mainly governed by soil characteristics such as depth, permeability, chemistry, internal drainage, runoff and...
The cork oak (Quercus suber L.) production system in Portugal, referred to as montado, occupies 713,000 ha representing 22% of Portugal’s forest area. In the last 5 decades several changes occurred in the forest management of cork oak stands, mainly due to the reduction of hand labour and increasing mechanization, creating a new set of risk factors to production system sustainability. Of all risk factors, soil ...
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