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Grassland Management for Sustainable Agroecosystems

Agronomy, 2020
Knowledge on sustainable grassland management is available in the large body of literature. However, it is unclear where to look for it, and what is really relevant to the many interrelated challenges of sustainable grassland management. This special issue illustrates options to fill some of those gaps.
Gianni Bellocchi, Abad Chabbi
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An Overview of Permanent Grassland Grazing Management Practices and the Impacts on Principal Soil Quality Indicators

Agronomy, 2023
Grasslands are at risk of degradation due to unsustainable management practices and climate change. Here, we review the principal soil quality indicators (SQIs) to evaluate the sustainability of different grassland management practices globally.
Filippo Milazzo, Richard M. Francksen, Mohamed Abdalla, Simone Ravetto Enri, Laura Zavattaro, Marco Pittarello, Stanislav Hejduk, Paul Newell-Price, René L. M. Schils, Pete Smith, Tom Vanwalleghem   +10 more
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Grassland management strategies influence soil C, N, and P sequestration through shifting plant community composition in a semi-arid grasslands of northern China

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Current studies regarding the effects of grassland management strategies on the soil nutrient cycle have mostly focused on soil organic carbon (SOC).
Lingling Chen, Taogetao Baoyin, Fangshan Xia   +2 more
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Analysis of the activity rhythms of the great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) and its predators and their correlations based on infrared camera technology

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Rodents have long plagued forestry production in China, particularly in desert areas in northwestern China, where prevention and monitoring techniques are lacking.
Xuanye Wen, Xiaotian Cheng, Yingqian Dong, Qiaoshen Wang, Xiao Lin   +4 more
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Nitrogen fertilizer regulates soil respiration by altering the organic carbon storage in root and topsoil in alpine meadow of the north-eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Scientific Reports, 2019
Soil respiration (Rs) plays a critical role in the global carbon (C) balance, especially in the context of globally increasing nitrogen (N) deposition. However, how N-addition influences C cycle remains unclear.
Wen Li, Jinlan Wang, Xiaolong Li, Shilin Wang, Wenhui Liu, Shangli Shi, Wenxia Cao   +6 more
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Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: grassland biodiversity dynamics [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes
European grassland management has often favoured high production through frequent mowing and heavy fertilisation over biodiversity conservation, which is typically supported by less intensive management.
Franziska Taubert, Tuomas Rossi, Christoph Wohner, Sarah Venier, Tomáš Martinovič, Taimur Khan, Julian Gordillo, Thomas Banitz   +7 more
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Sheepfolds induce significant increase of seasonal CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions in temperate steppes of Inner Mongolia

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionThe changes in grassland management and grassland types are strongly linked with dynamics in soil physico-chemical properties and vegetation attributes, with important implications for carbon/nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes ...
Xinyu Wang, Xudong Guo, Di Zhou, Hao Wang, Haoxin Li, Frank Yonghong Li   +5 more
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Potential impacts of land‐management schedules on grassland bird nests and fledglings

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2023
Trade‐offs exist between timing of grassland habitat management activities (e.g., weed and brush control) while also ensuring other conservation objectives (e.g., grassland bird reproductive success) are met. On land set aside for grassland conservation (
Daniel M. Wolcott, James R. Herkert, Christine A. Ribic, Rosalind B. Renfrew, David W. Sample   +4 more
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Modeling vegetation and carbon dynamics of managed grasslands at the global scale with LPJmL 3.6 [PDF]

Geoscientific Model Development, 2018
Grassland management affects the carbon fluxes of one-third of the global land area and is thus an important factor for the global carbon budget. Nonetheless, this aspect has been largely neglected or underrepresented in global carbon cycle models. We
S. Rolinski, C. Müller, J. Heinke, I. Weindl, I. Weindl, I. Weindl, A. Biewald, B. L. Bodirsky, A. Bondeau, E. R. Boons-Prins, A. F. Bouwman, P. A. Leffelaar, J. A. te Roller, S. Schaphoff, K. Thonicke   +14 more
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The species of Campodorus Förster, 1869 and a related species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from China

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
Ten species of Campodorus Förster, 1869 are reported from China and five species are new to science: C. albilineatus Sheng, Sun & Li sp. nov. from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the Oriental part of China, C. punctatus Sheng, Sun & Li sp. nov. and C.
Shu-Ping Sun, Tao Li, Mao-Ling Sheng, Jun Lü   +3 more
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