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Remote sensing for monitoring rangeland condition: Current status and development of methods

open access: yesEnvironmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2023
This paper reviews the current status and development of remote sensing methods for monitoring rangeland condition. Remote sensing offers ideal solutions for assessing ecological indicators in vast and remote rangeland regions, with expanding ...
Angus Retallack   +4 more
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Evaporative Fraction as an Indicator of Moisture Condition and Water Stress Status in Semi-Arid Rangeland Ecosystems

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2014
Rangeland monitoring services require the capability to investigate vegetation condition and to assess biomass production, especially in areas where local livelihood depends on rangeland status.
Francesco Nutini   +4 more
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‘The ghost of environmental history’: Analysing the evolving governance of communal rangeland resources in Machubeni, South Africa

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2022
The need to effectively govern and manage communal rangeland resources has become more important over the past two decades, given the extent of biodiversity loss caused by a myriad of drivers interacting at different scales.
Menelisi Falayi   +2 more
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Effects of Pasture Improvement and Management Practices on Vegetation: A Sample of Aslançayırı Village Pasture in Samsun, Turkey

open access: yesTürkiye Tarımsal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2021
This study was conducted in the pasture of Aslançayırı village (41°00'52" N, 35°38'59" E, 800 m altitude), Havza district of Samsun province, located in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey, to determine the changes in pasture vegetation caused by ...
Tamer YAVUZ , Kadir İSPİRLİ
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Determination of vegetation structure of the Çatoluk forest rangeland in Isparta province

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Forestry, 2018
In this study, which was carried out in Çatoluk forest rangeland located within the borders of the Aksu district of Isparta province during the vegetation period of 2013, the characteristics of the vegetation and the general features of the soil of the ...
İbrahim DURSUN, Ahmet Alper BABALIK
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Integrated Impacts of Climate Change and Grazing on Mongolia’s Rangelands

open access: yesLand, 2021
Mongolia contains some of the largest intact grasslands in the world, but is vulnerable to future changes in climate and continued increases in the number of domestic livestock.
Virginia Anne Kowal   +4 more
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THRESHOLD RANGELAND CONDITION FOR RANGELAND RESTORATION INVESTMENTS AND THE FINANCIAL EQUIVALENT OF LIVEWEIGHT LOSSES DUE TO RANGELAND DEGRADATION [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Ecology and Environmental Research, 2019
In this paper, the relations between live weight (LW) gain of the grazing cows and rangeland condition (RC), LW gain and concentrate supplement and LW gain and genetics of the grazing cows were investigated to quantify LW and body condition score (BCS) losses driven by rangeland degradation to estimate the threshold RC over which rangelands can ...
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Rangeland Health, Condition and Biodiversity in Kırşehir Province

open access: yesTürk Tarım ve Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi, 2019
Rangeland improvement and management have recently become more important that many new projects have been also initiated and conducted throughout Turkey. There is a great responsible for the provinces in the Central Anatolia Region on those implementation projects.
MUTLU, Ziya   +5 more
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Assessment of Rangeland Degradation Indicators using Exploiters’ View between Authorized and Unauthorized Exploiters (Case Study: Saryqmish Winter Rangelands, Golestan Province, Iran) [PDF]

open access: yesDesert, 2016
In recent years, large rangeland areas have been destroyed for various reasons, so that its negative impacts on local people's income and sustainable livelihood are become significant.
B. Behmanesh   +4 more
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New Concepts for Assessment of Rangeland Condition [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Range Management, 1995
Range condition score or classification does not tell us, in a general sense, much of what managers and the public want to know about rangelands. Range condition is not a reliable indicator, across all rangelands, of biodiversity, erosion potential, nutrient cycling, value for wildlife species, or productivity.
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