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Ecological Indicators, 2023 Grazing can alter soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) through feeding, trampling, and excreta deposition. However, it remains unclear how grazing intensity and grazing duration across Chinese grasslands affect the relationship
Zeying Yao +9 more
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Grass and Forage Science, 2007 SummaryFinding an optimal balance between livestock production and grazing impact on plant biodiversity is an important issue in the design of grazing systems. This paper describes a study of the effect of two levels of grazing intensity combined with different animal breeds on plant biodiversity and sward structural diversity of semi‐natural ...
Scimone, M. +3 more
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Rangelands, 2000 G razing management on rangelands is based on controlling the intensity, timing, frequency, and selectivity of grazing animals. Grazing intensity has been considered to be the most critical of these factors because high intensity grazing damages the eaten plants. Considerable controversy has existed over how grazing intensity should be measured.
Jerry L. Holecheck, Dee Galt
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Modeling the spatial distribution of grazing intensity in Kazakhstan [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2019 With increasing affluence in many developing countries, the demand for livestock products is rising and the increasing feed requirement contributes to pressure on land resources for food and energy production. However, there is currently a knowledge gap in our ability to assess the extent and intensity of the utilization of land by livestock, which is ...
Hankerson, Brett +5 more
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Grazing effects on vegetation dynamics in the savannah ecosystems of the Sahel
Ecological Processes, 2023 Background The savannah ecosystems of Sahel have experienced continuous and heavy grazing of livestock for centuries but still, their vegetation response to grazing pressure remains poorly understood.
Haftay Hailu Gebremedhn +6 more
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A narrower gap of grazing intensity. Reply to Fetzel et al., 2017. Seasonality constrains to livestock grazing intensity [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2017 Fil: Irisarri, Jorge Gonzalo Nicolas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura. Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Jorge Gonzalo Nicola Irisarri +4 more
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Vegetation type and grazing intensity jointly shape grazing effects on grassland biodiversity [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2018 AbstractIn the Palaearctic steppe zone, overgrazing was identified as one of the key drivers of declining grassland biodiversity, which underlines the necessity of the functional evaluation of increased grazing pressure on grassland vegetation. We tested the following hypotheses: (a) The effect of grazing intensity on species and functional diversity ...
Péter Török +5 more
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A global meta-analyses of the response of multi-taxa diversity to grazing intensity in grasslands
Environmental Research Letters, 2019 Livestock grazing is an important component and driver of biodiversity in grassland ecosystems. While numerous studies and a few meta-analyses had been conducted on the response of single taxon diversity to grazing in grasslands, a synthesis of how multi-
Chao Wang, Yujia Tang
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Grazing regime alters plant community structure via patch‐scale diversity in semiarid grasslands
Ecosphere, 2021 Selective grazing of livestock creates lightly and heavily grazed vegetation patches, which together contribute to the whole community in grazed grasslands.
Wenhuai Li +8 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Extensively grazed semi-natural grasslands contribute to a wide range of ecosystem services, including the preservation of biodiversity and provision of livestock feed.
Dina Hamidi +6 more
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