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Drivers, Process, and Consequences of Native Grassland Degradation: Insights from a Literature Review and a Survey in Río de la Plata Grasslands

Agronomy, 2019
Natural grasslands are being progressively degraded around the world due to human-induced action (e.g., overgrazing), but there is neither a widely accepted conceptual framework to approach degradation studies nor a clear definition of what “ ...
Guadalupe Tiscornia, Martín Jaurena, Walter Baethgen   +2 more
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Perception of native grasslands in south-eastern Australia: some implications for landscape aesthetics and other landscape values [PDF]

, 2001
Grasslands are considered to be Australia’s most threatened ecosystems, yet relatively little is known about human preferences and attitudes which contribute to continued degradation of these landscapes.
Cary, John, Williams, Kathryn
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Impacts of Future Grassland Changes on Surface Climate in Mongolia

Advances in Meteorology, 2013
Climate change caused by land use/cover change (LUCC) is becoming a hot topic in current global change, especially the changes caused by the grassland degradation.
Fan Zhang, Xing Li, Weimin Wang, Xinli Ke, Qingling Shi   +4 more
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ECOSSE: Estimating Carbon in Organic Soils - Sequestration and Emissions: Final Report [PDF]

, 2007
Background Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas ( GHG) emissions, is one of the most serious threats facing our planet, and is of concern at both UK and devolved administration levels.
Aitkenhead, Matt, Bell, John, Bradley, Ian, Chapman, Steve, Evans, Christopher, Falloon, Pete, Flynn, Helen, Foereid, Bente, Frogbrook, Zoë, Killham, Ken, Lumsdon, David, Milne, Ronald, Rangel-Castro, Ignacio, Reynolds, Brian, Simmons, Ivan, Skiba, Ute, Smith, Jo, Smith, Pete, Thomson, Amanda, Towers, Willie, Whitmore, Andy   +20 more
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Patterns and Rates of Land Use Land Cover Change: A Case Study of Ambos Nogales (Arizona and Sonora), 1985-2004 [PDF]

The continued expansion of the paired U.S.–Mexican border cities of Ambos Nogales presents many environmental management and urban planning challenges.
Jyoti Jain, Soe W. Myint, Subhrajit Guhathakurta   +2 more
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Root traits predict decomposition across a landscape-scale grazing experiment [PDF]

, 2014
Acknowledgements We are grateful to the Woodland Trust for maintenance of and access to the Glen Finglas experiment. We thank Debbie Fielding, William Smith, Sarah McCormack, Allan Sim, Marcel Junker and Elaine Runge for help in the field and the ...
David Johnson, Rene Van Der Wal, Robin J. Pakeman, Sarah J. Woodin, Stuart W. Smith, Stuart W. Smith   +5 more
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NDVI aplicado na detecção de degradação de pastagens cultivadas

Confins, 2018
Grassland degradation is a process according to which occurs loss of productivity, nutritional value and natural recovery capacity. The geoprocessing techniques to identify different levels of degradation through consistent data and repeated measurements.
Elaine Lima Fonseca, Marília Locatelli, Eliomar Pereira Silva Filho   +2 more
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Context-dependent effects of grassland degradation on soil nitrogen cycling processes

Communications Earth & Environment
Grassland degradation, as a result of climate change and anthropogenic activities, is reported to impair soil nitrogen cycling processes. However, there is little evidence on the spatial patterns of the degradation effects across broad environmental ...
Shiting Yao, Xiaoxia Gao, Bin Wei, Yaping Niu, Huakun Zhou, Guangxin Lu, Yuanhe Yang, Yunfeng Peng   +7 more
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Quantitative Analysis of Driving Factors of Grassland Degradation: A Case Study in Xilin River Basin, Inner Mongolia

The Scientific World Journal, 2012
Current literature suggests that grassland degradation occurs in areas with poor soil conditions or noticeable environmental changes and is often a result of overgrazing or human disturbances. However, these views are questioned in our analyses. Based on
Yichun Xie, Zongyao Sha
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An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Zhu Q, Chen H, Peng C, Liu J, Piao S, He JS, Wang S, Zhao X, Zhang J, Fang X, Jin J, Yang QE, Ren L, Wang Y.   +13 more
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