Le rôle de l'élevage dans la conservation des prairies de marais et des services écosystémiques qu’elles rendent

Wet grasslands are managed for livestock farming. They have been much drained in the past and their abandonment is now the main threat. Extensive management allows the conservation of these open ecosystems and the ecosystem services they provide such as hosting a diverse fauna and flora, the production of quality fodder, the regulation of water flows and quality, pollination or carbon storage. The services are not all in synergy and there is no ideal habitat for all the services provided. However, the diversity of habitats, sometimes within the same marsh, makes it possible to offer interesting levels of services at the landscape scale. Wet grassland conservation depends above all on maintaining livestock farming with extensive management in marshy areas.