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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Ecological security barriers on the Tibetan Plateau are threatened by climate change and human activities, such as grassland degradation and reduction of carbon fixation capacity.
Hua Yang +5 more
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Productivity of Permanent Pastures Located at Different Altitudes
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 This work studies the yielding and grazing capacity of some permanent pastures located in Banat’s Mountains, at 236 – 1300 m altitude. The mean results achieved showed that the yield difference between the minimal altitude level (236 m) and the maximal ...
Dorin Rechiţean +7 more
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Improving carbon sequestration estimation through accounting carbon stored in grassland soil
MethodsX, 2020 Based on international guidelines, the elaboration of national carbon (C) budgets in many countries has tended to set aside the capacity of grazing lands to sequester C as soil organic carbon (SOC).
M.F. Ricard, E.F. Viglizzo
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Effects of grazing pressure on plant species composition and water presence on bofedales in the Andes mountain range of Bolivia [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2018 Bofedales are high-Andean peatland plant communities with high capacity for water retention, which are regarded as oases of biodiversity. These areas have great social and economic value for livestock grazing, which plays an important role in their ...
N. Cochi Machaca +6 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Dry rangelands provide resources for half of the world's livestock, but degradation due to overgrazing is a major threat to system sustainability. Existing carrying capacity assessments are limited by low spatiotemporal resolution and high generalization,
Harald Zandler +4 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2019 Background Grazing is an important land use in northern China. In general, different grazing intensities had a different impact on the morphological and physiological traits of plants, and especially their photosynthetic capacity.
Min Liu +7 more
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An approach to assessing the financial viability of bush clearing on game ranches in savanna regions
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1999 An approach to assessing the financial viability of bush clearing on game ranches in savanna regions is presented, using data on the rates of change of herbaceous phytomass and tree density following bush clearing.
A.G. Schmidt, J.W. Jordaan
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Plant compensation to grazing and soil carbon dynamics in a tropical grassland [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 The effects of grazing on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics, particularly in the tropics, are still poorly understood. Plant compensation to grazing, whereby plants maintain leaf area (C input capacity) despite consumption (C removal) by grazers, has ...
Mark E. Ritchie
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Wild ungulates are an important part of terrestrial ecosystems and play a critical role in maintaining ecosystem health and integrity. In many grassland ecosystems that are habituated by wild ungulates, the coexistence of domestic ungulates has created a
Yueheng Ren +6 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2021 Grassland ecosystems are essential for biomass production but are prone to degradation if management practices are inappropriate. Thus, it is necessary to optimize grazing management since the grazing practices and grassland status are interconnected ...
Teodor MARUȘCA +4 more
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