Ruminating on soil carbon: applying current understanding to inform grazing management

PL Stanley, C Wilson, E Patterson… - Global Change …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Among options for atmospheric CO2 removal, sequestering soil organic carbon (SOC) via
improved grazing management is a rare opportunity because it is scalable across millions of …

Structure and functioning of wild and agricultural grazing ecosystems: a comparative review

GS Kleppel, DA Frank - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
For more than 10 million years, large, herd forming ruminants have thrived as parts of
sustainable grazing ecosystems. Conversely, since their domestication 8,000–11,000 years …

Adaptive, multi-paddock, rotational grazing management alters foraging behavior and spatial grazing distribution of free-ranging cattle

DJ Augustine, SP Kearney, EJ Raynor… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Sustainable management of grazinglands depends upon understanding how management
practices influence livestock movements in space and time. We conducted a ranch-scale …

Monitoring standing herbaceous biomass and thresholds in semiarid rangelands from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery to support within-season …

SP Kearney, LM Porensky, DJ Augustine… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Adaptive management requires rangeland managers to respond to changing forage
conditions (eg, standing herbaceous biomass) within the grazing season at the scale of …

[HTML][HTML] Grazing cattle, sheep, and goats are important parts of a sustainable agricultural future

T Grandin - Animals, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Increasing attacks on animal agriculture have forced many people to
question the use of animals for food. Grazing livestock are part of a sustainable agricultural …

Can collaborative adaptive management improve cattle production in multipaddock grazing systems?

JD Derner, DJ Augustine, DD Briske, H Wilmer… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Collaborative adaptive management (CAM) is hypothesized to benefit management of
rangeland ecosystems, but the presumed benefits have seldom been quantified, and never …

Climate factors rather than human activities controlled NDVI trends across wet meadow areas in the Andes Centrales of Argentina

LC Sardiña, G Irisarri, M Texeira - Journal of Arid Environments, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In the Andes of southern South America, wet meadows are much more productive than
nearby arid areas. Human activities, along with climate variations may reduce the …

Evaluating the impacts of alternative grazing management practices on soil carbon sequestration and soil health indicators

JJ Kim, S Ale, UP Kreuter, WR Teague… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Globally, grazing lands represent a major carbon (C) sink. However, improper use of these
ecosystems can degrade their soils and their C storage capacity. Specifically, prolonged …

[HTML][HTML] The economic fundamentals of virtual fencing compared to traditional fencing

DL Hoag, R Reuter, DF Mooney, J Vitale, J Ritten… - Rangelands, 2025‏ - Elsevier
On the Ground• Virtual fencing (VF) for livestock is being commercialized by several
companies in the United States.• Ranchers and land managers are interested in the …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive multi-paddock grazing management's influence on soil food web community structure for: increasing pasture forage production, soil organic carbon …

DC Johnson, R Teague, S Apfelbaum, R Thompson… - PeerJ, 2022‏ - peerj.com
Background Measurement of two grazing management's influence on pasture productivity,
soil food web structure, soil organic carbon and soil microbial respiration efficiency was …