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Development and evaluation of remote sensing-based grassland ecosystem monitoring tool for predicting provisioning, regulating, and supporting services in semi-arid regions

Smart Agricultural Technology
The complex and costly current methods hinder majority of the developing countries to develop systems for monitoring ecosystem services (ES), especially in natural grassland. We developed a “Grassland Ecosystem Monitoring Index” (GEMI) as an easy and low-
Avijit Ghosh, Bappa Das, Ajay N Satpute, Md Ashraful Haque, Amit K Singh, Abhishek Chakroborty, Arun Kumar Shukla, Nagaratna Biradar, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Sandipan Mukherjee   +9 more
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Resilience for restoration: Insights from the Northern Great Plains native seed system

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Native plants are essential to ecological restoration and culturally important to local and Tribal communities, yet native seed systems across the United States (US) struggle to meet restoration demand. In the US Northern Great Plains, land conversion of native ecosystems means restoration potential is high but constrained by an underdeveloped
Elena Friedman, Lauren Redmore, Lora Perkins, Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek   +3 more
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Grassland carbon sequestration and emissions following cultivation in a mixed crop rotation [PDF]

, 2012
Grasslands are potential carbon sinks to reduce unprecedented increase in atmospheric CO2. Effect of age (1 to 4-yr-old) and management (slurry, grazing multispecies mixture) of a grass phase mixed crop rotation on carbon sequestration and emissions upon
Rasmussen, J., Acharya, B.S., Eriksen, J.   +2 more
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Investigating climate adaptation in semi-arid pastoral social-ecological system: A case in Hulun Buir, China

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Covering 15% of the Earth's land surface and home to 14% of the global population, semi-arid pastoral regions are characterized by high climatic variability and ecological vulnerability.
Yuping Bai, Xiangzheng Deng, Chuyao Weng, Yecui Hu, Shibin Zhang, Ying Wang   +5 more
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Determining the values of soil‐mediated contributions to people: A comparative European perspective

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Soil health is a fundamental element underpinning terrestrial ecosystems, yet it is persistently threatened by the ongoing process of land degradation, leading to detrimental impacts on human well‐being. However, there is a paucity of research on the extent to which humans are dependent on soils and the societal values attributed to their ...
Katja Schmidt, Daniel Johnson, Charlott Scholz, Lena Chowdhury, Alexandra Dehnhardt   +4 more
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Comprehensive Comparative Advantage of Livestock and Poultry Farming Under Environmental Carrying Capacity Constraints: Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

Land
The expansion and spatial concentration of livestock and poultry farming have intensified the mismatch between manure nutrient pressures and regional environmental carrying capacity, creating persistent obstacles to the sector’s green transformation ...
Hongming Liu, Zhengwang Zhang, Wenjie Liu, Kun Zhou, Jianqiang Li   +4 more
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Framing nature‐based solutions in Norwegian public media: A critical discourse analysis of public narratives

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have become central to environmental governance. Yet, their societal legitimacy depends on how they are framed in public discourse. This study investigates how Norwegian media actors construct narratives around NbS, whose voices are amplified, and the extent to which plural and Indigenous epistemologies are ...
Maximilian Nawrath, Line Johanne Barkved, Isabel Seifert‐Dähnn, Sondre Meland   +3 more
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Land parcellation reduced spatial redundancy resulting in grassland degradation

People and Nature
Degradation is the most immediate threat to biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods of global pastoral grasslands. However, we are still uncertain why grassland degradation is enhanced by the land policy of grassland parcellation.
JianXin Jiao, ShanShan Li, WenYin Wang, LingYan Qi, A. Allan Degen, YanFu Bai, Ting Jiao, ZhanHuan Shang   +7 more
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Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios, Antonio Martínez Ruiz, Marisela Calderón Jurado, Ramón Saúl Luján Aguirre, Juan Luis Jacobo Cuellar, Oscar Sariñana‐Aldaco, María Teresa Martínez Damián, Oscar Cruz Alvarez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brazil seed transfer zones: Supporting seed sourcing for climate‐resilient ecosystem restoration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil has tens of millions of hectares of degraded land that must be restored to meet national and global biodiversity and climate goals. Sowing genetically diverse native seeds is key to restoring degraded lands to climate‐resilient landscapes, but we still lack guidance on how to effectively match seed sources to restoration sites across broad ...
Mateus Silva, André Braga Junqueira, Pedro Guimarães, Danielle Celentano, Beatriz Murer, Tobias Fremout, Evert Thomas, Christopher Kettle, Edjane Damasceno, Adler Medeiros, Rodrigo Dutra‐Silva, Fabian Borghetti, Fatima Piña‐Rodrigues, Anabele Gomes, Veronica Maioli, R. Toby Pennington, Lucy Rowland, Eduardo Malta   +17 more
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