Rangeland management plans prioritization using the concept of ecosystem services: A case study of Fars province rangelands [PDF]
علوم محیطی, 2021 Introduction: In recent years, rangeland degradation has reduced a wide range of ecosystem services for billions of people whose livelihoods depend on natural resources.
Dorna Jahangirpour +2 more
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Land, 2013 Residents of Southern Africa depend on rangeland for food, livelihoods, and ecosystem services. Sustainable management of rangeland ecosystems requires attention to interactive effects of fire and grazing in a changing climate. It is essential to compare
Devan Allen McGranahan, Kevin P. Kirkman
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Eco-hydrological impacts and socio-economic drivers of rangeland degradation due to overgrazing in semi-arid and arid regions: a review [PDF]
Mesopotamia Journal of AgricultureGlobal rangelands have experienced severe degradation over the past three centuries due to anthropogenic and climatic pressures. Rapid population growth, urbanization, and socioeconomic transformations have driven widespread overgrazing, threatening both
Mojgansadat Azimi +3 more
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Rangeland Condition and the Appropriate Rangeland Management Methods
Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2020 Improvement, development and proper exploitation of current rangelands conditions and selecting a range management method (balanced, natural and, artificial) to be implemented in the form of a range management plan (RMP).
Kambiz Kamrani +3 more
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Evaluation of the Interception Condition in Haloxylon Persicum Bunge and Calligonum Comosum L'Hér. Species and their Role on soil Conservation [PDF]
پژوهشهای آبخیزداری, 2023 Introduction and Objective More than other biological and environmental factors, the water crisis reduces the production of plant ecosystems, especially in dry climates.
Seyed Mohammad Tajbakhsh Fakhrabadi +3 more
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Identification of critical sediment source areas across the Gharesou watershed, Northeastern Iran, using hydrological modeling [PDF]
Environmental Resources Research, 2016 In this study, the process-based watershed model, Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), was used for simulating hydrology and sediment transport in the Gharesou watershed and for identifying critical areas of soil erosion and water pollution.
A Zare Gariz, A Talebi
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Ecological Insights from Spatial Pattern Analysis: Halocnemum strobilaceum and Climacoptera turcomanica in Golestan's Saline and Alkaline Rangelands [PDF]
DesertHalophytes and other salt-tolerant plants in rangeland ecosystems play an important role in environmental protection and food security. The spatial point pattern analyses of these plants in arid and semi-arid areas provide valuable information about how ...
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Effects of watershed management practices on the quadric services of Chehel-Chai Watershed, Golestan Province [PDF]
مدلسازی و مدیریت آب و خاک, 2022 IntroductionEcological services are the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems and include four categories of provision, regulatory, cultural, and supportive services. Each of these four categories includes a wide range of ecosystem services.
Zeinab Karimi +2 more
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Implementing a resilience‐based management system in Mongolia's rangelands
Ecosphere, 2023 A primary challenge in advancing sustainability in rangelands and drylands is the lack of governance systems that are linked to information about highly variable ecosystem conditions.
Burmaa Dashbal +8 more
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Modelling land use change by an integrated Cellular Automata and Markov Chain Model (case study; Azadshahr County) [PDF]
Environmental Resources Research, 2023 In this research, land-use changes in Azadshahr County were investigated from 1998 to 2009, using the imageries from Landsat 5 satellite and an integration of the Markov chain and Cellular Automata methods.
Chooghi Bairam Komaki +3 more
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