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Willingness to Pay for the Conservation of Natural Resources: The Case of Sepidan Land and Rangeland Restoration in Iran

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land resources provide essential ecosystem services (ESs) that improve welfare, making their conservation. Considering stakeholders' perceptions of the environmental importance of land resources and their desire to participate in the conservation value of these resources.
Samane Ghazali, Anwar Eziz, Christine Fürst, Khatereh Taheri, Ali Ganiyusufoğlu, Petr Sklenicka, Hossein Azadi   +6 more
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Resilience Pathways for Land Degradation Neutrality: How Informal Institutions Shape Community Land Governance Across the Global South

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A decade after Land Degradation Neutrality was incorporated into Sustainable Development Goal 15.3, implementation outcomes across the Global South remain uneven. Mainstream commons research identifies recurring institutional features, whereas critical institutionalism emphasizes their adaptive assembly; both traditions increasingly recognize ...
Tengyuan Yang, Senbao Lu, Jiapeng Dai
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring spatio-temporal change of rangeland vegetation in Bhutan to inform sustainable rangeland management

Discover Geoscience
Rangelands play a critical role in delivering ecosystem services, including biodiversity conservation, livestock production, and ecological stability in Bhutan’s high-altitude landscapes.
Kabir Uddin, Yi Shaoliang, Bandana Shakya, Srijana Joshi, Tashi Dorji, Ramesh Timilsina, Karma Chorten Dendup   +6 more
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Revealing Dust Source Changes in East Asia From Past to Future: An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aeolian dust source areas are controlled by climate and human activities and are closely associated with land degradation, yet their long‐term evolution under global warming remains insufficiently quantified. An integrated framework that couples a U‐Net segmentation model with Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) was built to map and attribute
Yanyu Li, Qizhong Wu, Xueshun Chen, Jiang Yue, Jieying He, Huaqiong Cheng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proximity to wind turbines altered plant–pollinator dynamics in prairie and sagebrush ecosystems in Wyoming, USA

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Wind turbines influence several abiotic conditions in the environments they are sited in and may influence the behavior and movement of insect pollinators. It is unknown how operating turbines influence plant–pollinator interactions. To investigate if pollination dynamics could be affected by the presence of wind turbines, we recorded videos of ...
Michelle Weschler, Brenna Martin, Lusha Tronstad   +2 more
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Influence of season and rangeland-type on serum biochemistry of indigenous Zulu sheep

Open Agriculture, 2022
There is a paucity of information on the serum biochemistry of indigenous Zulu sheep in different seasons and rangeland type. Twenty clinically healthy Zulu rams aged at least 12 months were selected in different rangeland type, namely, Moist Coast ...
Xulu Thembinkosi G., Ncobela Cyprial N., Kunene Nokuthula W.   +2 more
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Resolution of Respect Eugene “Geno” Wallace Schupp (1952–2026) Seed dispersal ecologist, restoration scientist, mentor

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Pedro Jordano, José María Gómez
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Botanical diversity as a reservoir of resilience: The emergence of new uses of wild plants under acute food shortages in Karamoja, Uganda

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agro‐pastoralist communities in Karamoja, Uganda, face food insecurity driven by climate variability, declining livestock numbers and crop failures. In this context, local ethnobotanical knowledge systems play a central role in subsistence and adaptation.
Emiel De Meyer, Emmanuel Emaruk, Simon Omeri, Adam Leese, Claudias N. Lorika, Thomas Achilla, Vivian Lomele, Pablo Manzano, Rainer W. Bussmann   +8 more
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A scoping review of communal rangelands management in southern Africa: towards sustainable management of rangelands

Pastoralism
This paper investigates the impacts of policy and governance institutions on rangeland management practices in southern Africa. A scoping review was conducted, using literature from Web of Science, JSTOR, Scopus and Africa-wide bibliographic databases in
Bukho Gusha, Bukho Gusha, David Gwapedza, David Gwapedza, Onalenna Gwate, Onalenna Gwate, Anthony R. Palmer, Menelisi Falayi   +7 more
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ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING EFFECTIVENESS OF RANGELAND-DEPENDENT DAIRY CATTLE FARMS IN ERZURUM PROVINCE [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2014
With a special emphasis on the rangeland condition, factors affecting effectiveness of the farms were researched inthis study. Study area covers Erzurum Province, Turkey. Villages were purposively selected from those of whichrangeland conditions had been
Abdurrahman KARA, Semiha KIZILOĞLU
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