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Estimation of Rangeland Production in the Arid Oriental Region (Morocco) Combining Remote Sensing Vegetation and Rainfall Indices: Challenges and Lessons Learned

Remote Sensing, 2021
This study aimed at investigating the potential of vegetation indices and precipitation-related variables derived from remote sensing to assess rangeland production in the arid environment of the Moroccan Oriental region and identifying the challenges ...
Marie Lang, Hamid Mahyou, Bernard Tychon
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Spatial modeling of rangeland potential vegetation environments [PDF]

Journal of Range Management, 2001
Potential vegetation environments (e.g., habitat types, range sites, ecological sites) are important to land managers because they provide a conceptual basis for the description of resource potentials and ecological integrity. Efficient use of potential vegetation classifications in regional or subregional scale assessments of ecosystem health has been
M. E. Jensen, J. P. Dibenedetto, J. A. Barber   +2 more
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Rangeland restoration in Jordan: Restoring vegetation cover by water harvesting measures

International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2022
Restoration of the degraded rangelands in Jordan using mechanized water harvesting and native species planting has become key to enhancing and maintaining the productivity and resilience of fragile ecosystems. A balanced interaction between the rangeland'
Mira Haddad, Stefan Martin Strohmeier, Kossi Nouwakpo, Omar Rimawi, Mark Weltz, Geert Sterk   +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]

Desert, 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, A. Abedi Sarvestani, M. Sharafatmandrad, M.R. Shahraki, A. Hajili-Davaji   +4 more
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Degradation of Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation in a Semi-Arid Rangeland [PDF]

Remote Sensing, 2016
Land degradation in drylands is the process in which undesirable conditions emerge due to human and natural causes. Despite the particularly deleterious effects of degradation, and it’s potentially irreversible nature, regional assessments have provided conflicting extents, rates, and severities of degradation, both globally and regionally.
Jackson, Hasan, Prince, Stephen D.
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The challenges of rehabilitating denuded patches of a semi-arid environment in Kenya [PDF]

, 2010
Land degradation is a major problem in the semi-arid environments of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fighting land degradation is essential to ensure the sustainable and long-term productivity of the habited semiarid lands.
Clavel, D., Ekaya, W.N., Francis, J., Kaufmann, R., Von, Mganga, K.Z., Muiri, W.M., Musimba, N.K.R., Mwangombe, A.W., Nyangito, M.M., Nyariki, D.M., Verhagen, J.   +10 more
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Determination of vegetation structure of the Çatoluk forest rangeland in Isparta province

Turkish 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
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Vegetation dynamics on rangelands: a critique of the current paradigms [PDF]

Journal of Applied Ecology, 2003
Summary Rangeland ecologists have been debating the validity of two current paradigms for the evaluation of vegetation dynamics on rangelands. This debate frequently contrasts the conventional model of continuous and reversible vegetation dynamics (range model) with a more contemporary model that can accommodate discontinuous and non‐reversible ...
D. D. Briske, S. D. Fuhlendorf, F. E. Smeins   +2 more
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Rangeland utilization in Mediterranean farming systems

Animal, 2010
In the countries surrounding the Mediterranean basin, most of the semi-natural grazing lands are covered by rangelands. Rangelands can be defined as highly heterogeneous natural vegetation communities with high conservation value, growing in harsh ...
M. Jouven, P. Lapeyronie, C-H. Moulin, F. Bocquier   +3 more
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Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data for Degradation Dynamics in Linxia Rangeland, Northwest China

Applied Sciences, 2017
The importance of accurately monitoring rangeland degradation dynamics over decades is increasing in Linxia rangeland, the birthplace of the Yellow River in China.
Xinyang Yu, Changhe Lu, Gengxing Zhao
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