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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ab30a7 |
Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: Implications for land and water management | |
Lathuillière M.J.; Solvik K.; Macedo M.N.; Graesser J.; Miranda E.J.; Couto E.G.; Johnson M.S. | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 17489318 |
卷号 | 14期号:11 |
英文摘要 | The expansion of cattle in central western Brazil has been under scrutiny because of the region's historic reliance on Amazon and Cerrado deforestation for cropland and pastureland expansion. In this study, we determined the volumetric water footprint (VWF) and the land footprint (LF) of cattle in Mato Grosso state for the years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2014 using official statistics and remote sensing imagery. We found the average VWF of cattle for the time period to be 265-270 l kg-1 LW-1 (LW as live weight of cattle) and a LF which decreased from 71 to 47 m2 kg-1 LW-1. The largest contribution to VWF came from farm impoundments whose total area increased from roughly 46 000 to 51 000 ha between 2000 and 2014, leading to a total evaporation as high as 7.31 × 1011 l yr-1 in 2014. Analysis at the municipality level showed a tendency towards greater density of cattle with respect to both pasture area and impoundments. While cattle intensification on current pastureland is commonly viewed as a means to prevent further deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, we stress the need to also consider the increasing demand for water associated with a growing cattle herd and the potential appropriation of additional resources for feed for feedlot finishing. Land and water resource management need to be considered together for future planning of cattle intensification at the Brazilian agricultural frontier as illustrated by the footprints reported here. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. |
英文关键词 | cattle; impoundments; land footprint; Mato Grosso; pasture; water footprint |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | Agricultural robots; Deforestation; Expansion; Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Water management; cattle; impoundments; Mato Grosso; pasture; Water footprint; Remote sensing; cattle; deforestation; greenhouse gas; pasture; remote sensing; resource management; water footprint; water management; water resource; Amazonia; Brazil; Mato Grosso; Bos |
来源期刊 | Environmental Research Letters |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154774 |
作者单位 | Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, 10451, Sweden; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0260, United States; Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540-1644, United States; Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Brasília, DF, 71503-505, Brazil; Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States; Departamento de Solos e Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Agronomia e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, MT, 78060-900, Brazil; Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lathuillière M.J.,Solvik K.,Macedo M.N.,et al. Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: Implications for land and water management[J],2019,14(11). |
APA | Lathuillière M.J..,Solvik K..,Macedo M.N..,Graesser J..,Miranda E.J..,...&Johnson M.S..(2019).Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: Implications for land and water management.Environmental Research Letters,14(11). |
MLA | Lathuillière M.J.,et al."Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: Implications for land and water management".Environmental Research Letters 14.11(2019). |
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