LOS SISTEMAS SILVOPASTORILES INTENSIVOS UNA ALTERNATIVA FRENTE A LOS DESAFIOS DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
INTENSIVE SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS: AN ALTERNATIVE AGAINST THE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Author(s): Diana del Socorro Daza Ardila, William Fernando Castrillón Cardona, Claudia Jurado Alvarán
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: adaptation; mitigation; agroforestry systems; livestock production; ecosystem conservation
Summary/Abstract: Intensive silvopastoral systems iSPS those are considered as a type of agroforestrysystems; they are characterized by managing multiple strata of vegetation; aims toimprove livestock production; and, favor the sustainable use of ecosystems.The iSPS contribute to the fulfi llment of the sustainable development objectives relatedto the conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems, with biodiversity,with climate change and with social indicators. The iSPS imitate ecological systems,making the unidirectional fl ow of energy more complex, favoring the movement of matterthrough biogeochemical cycles and increasing ecological relationships. In the SSPi theenrichment of the composition (number of species), structure (increase in strata) andfunction (enrichment of ecological relationships), protects surface and ground watersources, favors the maintenance of relative humidity, stabilizes the daily temperaturepeaks, It protects from torrential rains and creates microclimates with associated microhabitatsthat allow the arrival of new species increasing local diversity. In addition, theyfavor root exploration of soil horizons, reducing the risk of erosion, increasing percolationprocesses and maintaining humidity and improving abiotic conditions for edaphicpopulations. The SSPi contribute to the mitigation of climate change, by reducing theproduction of GHG greenhouse gases and by increasing the CO2 capture by the plantcommunity; and, favors the adaptation of human populations to climate change, protectingecosystems, favoring the sustainable management of ecosystems and increasingeconomic productivity.

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