Grassland soil carbon sequestration: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions

Y Bai, MF Cotrufo - Science, 2022 - science.org
Grasslands store approximately one third of the global terrestrial carbon stocks and can act
as an important soil carbon sink. Recent studies show that plant diversity increases soil …

Meat consumption and sustainability

MC Parlasca, M Qaim - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Meat has become a controversial topic in public debates, as it involves multiple
sustainability dimensions. Here, we review global meat consumption trends and the various …

Carbon and nitrogen cycling on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

H Chen, P Ju, Q Zhu, X Xu, N Wu, Y Gao… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has experienced atmospheric warming,
cryosphere thaw and intensified human activities since the 1970s. These changes have had …

Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities

S Ren, C Terrer, J Li, Y Cao, S Yang, D Liu - Nature Climate Change, 2024 - nature.com
Grazing has been associated with contrasting effects on soil carbon stocks at local scales,
but accurate global assessments of its net impact are lacking. Here we conducted a meta …

Enhancing sustainability of grassland ecosystems through ecological restoration and grazing management in an era of climate change on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

S Dong, Z Shang, J Gao, RB Boone - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The grassland ecosystems cover above 60% of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and provide
important ecosystem services and functions at local and regional scales. However, both …

Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change

TD Searchinger, S Wirsenius, T Beringer, P Dumas - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Land-use changes are critical for climate policy because native vegetation and soils store
abundant carbon and their losses from agricultural expansion, together with emissions from …

An energy efficient and secure IoT-based WSN framework: An application to smart agriculture

K Haseeb, I Ud Din, A Almogren, N Islam - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have demonstrated research and developmental interests
in numerous fields, like communication, agriculture, industry, smart health, monitoring, and …

The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi‐trophic: a meta‐analysis

A Filazzola, C Brown, MA Dettlaff, A Batbaatar… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic disturbance has generated a significant loss of biodiversity worldwide and
grazing by domestic herbivores is a contributing disturbance. Although the effects of grazing …

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 …

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

OJ Schmitz, CC Wilmers, SJ Leroux, CE Doughty… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Modern advances in remote-sensing technology are providing
unprecedented opportunities to accurately measure the global distribution of carbon held in …