Semi-natural grassland use in the Apuseni Mountains in the context of cultural landscape maintenance

摘要

On the Ghetari-Poiana Calineasa Plateau in the Apuseni Mountains (Romania) there are still important landscape elements that give a specific character to the region. The management that is being applied to semi-natural grasslands has generated a specific mountain landscape with a rich plant biodiversity and with a special tourism potential. The management continues to show numerous specific and traditional elements. The main inputs in grassland systems are: organic fertilisation, fighting against wooden vegetation, gathering rocks etc. The grasslands of the hamlets and their surroundings are exploited through a mixed system, grazing and mowing, and those situated at greater distances are used through grazing.