PMID- 30373655
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190314
LR  - 20190314
IS  - 1746-4269 (Electronic)
IS  - 1746-4269 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 1
DP  - 2018 Oct 29
TI  - The changing face of farmers' home gardens: a diachronic analysis from Sillian 
      (Eastern Tyrol, Austria).
PG  - 63
LID - 10.1186/s13002-018-0262-3 [doi]
LID - 63
AB  - BACKGROUND: Home gardens are an integral part of many traditional land use 
      systems around the world. They are subject to various conversion processes and 
      undergo a variety of changes. We were interested if change is an ongoing process 
      in farmers' home gardens of Eastern Tyrol (Austria). METHODS: In Sillian, 16 
      farmers' home gardens (FHGs) were studied. They had been studied in 1998 and were 
      revisited in 2013 including again a botanical inventory of cultivated and 
      non-cultivated plants, and structured interviews on appearance, management and 
      plant use. In 2017, all the 16 gardens were visited again to verify whether any 
      visible change on spatial configuration had occurred. RESULTS: The home garden 
      size had decreased between 1998 and 2013. A wider range of sizes was observed. 
      The occurrence of plant taxa per garden was the same but an increase in the 
      standard deviation of occurrence is seen. Plant diversity (occ./m(2)) increased 
      between 1998 and 2013. Seventy-nine plant taxa were no longer cultivated in 2013, 
      but 95 new plant taxa were being cultivated. The correlation between garden size 
      and occurrence was not significant, i.e. small gardens might host many different 
      plant taxa or large gardens might have fewer plant taxa. The occurrence for 
      certain use categories was not significantly different between the years, except 
      for the increase in the occurrence of plant taxa used as food and the food 
      subcategory spice. The mean abundance of individuals for all plant taxa showed a 
      significant decrease between the years. In 2013, an increase in standard 
      deviation of abundance is seen. The variation in the different use categories 
      expressed in abundance between the years was not significantly different, except 
      for the decrease in the abundance of plant taxa used as food. Between 1998 and 
      2017, six home gardens showed a change of their spatial configuration 
      (replacement by raised beds; merging with other structures; conversion to lawn). 
      One FHG shows signs of abandonment. CONCLUSIONS: In Sillian, gardens are by no 
      way static agroecological units, but are dynamic and individual in their 
      appearance, composition and function. Farmers' home gardens in Sillian show a 
      trend towards becoming more individual, i.e. conversion from being a product of a 
      homogenous local cultural script of the community into an area where gardeners 
      define more individually the role that farmers' homegardens are expected to play 
      for them or their family.
FAU - Vogl-Lukasser, Brigitte
AU  - Vogl-Lukasser B
AD  - Division of Organic Farming, Department for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, 
      University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 
      33, 1180, Vienna, Austria.
FAU - Vogl, Christian R
AU  - Vogl CR
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7899-2682
AD  - Division of Organic Farming, Department for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, 
      University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 
      33, 1180, Vienna, Austria. Christian.vogl@boku.ac.at.
LA  - eng
GR  - L 1044/96/Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water 
      Management/
GR  - L 1044/96/Government of Tyrol/
GR  - SPA 06/130/"Sparkling Science" (Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy 
      & Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research)/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20181029
PL  - England
TA  - J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
JT  - Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
JID - 101245794
SB  - IM
MH  - Agriculture/*trends
MH  - Austria
MH  - Biodiversity
MH  - *Crops, Agricultural
MH  - *Ecosystem
MH  - Forecasting
MH  - Gardening/*methods
MH  - Humans
PMC - PMC6205796
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Agrobiodiversity
OT  - Agroecology
OT  - Alps
OT  - Ethnobotany
OT  - Garden
OT  - Gardening
OT  - Homegarden
OT  - Land use change
OT  - Mountain farming
OT  - Subsistence
OT  - Sustainability
OT  - Transition
COIS- ETHICS APPROVAL AND CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE: Prior informed consent was obtained 
      from all the informants. Under Austrian law and under our university procedures, 
      no specific additional procedure is requested for this kind of study. CONSENT FOR 
      PUBLICATION: This manuscript does not contain any data on an individual person 
      and further consent for publication is not required. COMPETING INTERESTS: The 
      authors declare that they have no competing interests. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Springer 
      Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and 
      institutional affiliations.
EDAT- 2018/10/31 06:00
MHDA- 2019/03/15 06:00
PMCR- 2018/10/29
CRDT- 2018/10/31 06:00
PHST- 2018/05/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/10/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/10/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/10/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/03/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/10/29 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s13002-018-0262-3 [pii]
AID - 262 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s13002-018-0262-3 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2018 Oct 29;14(1):63. doi: 10.1186/s13002-018-0262-3.