Grazing plays an important role in milk production in most regions of the world. Despite the
importance of grazing, current trends in livestock farming in Europe are causing a decline in …

The intensification of agriculture has a great influence on grassland, resulting in the
disappearance of many plant and animal species and changing open landscape …

Widespread land degradation has strengthened the urgent need to restore overgrazing
grasslands. China has implemented the program 'Returning Grazing Land to …

Extensive livestock grazing is a global human activity. In the Iberian Peninsula, extensive
grazing and seminatural grasslands and open woodlands such as dehesas have co …

Land abandonment is common in the Mediterranean Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, but
little is known about its impacts on biodiversity. To upscale existing case-study insights to the …

Functional diversity (FD) has the potential to address many ecological questions, from
impacts of global change on biodiversity to ecological restoration. There are several …

Grazing exclusion is an important policy currently being employed by the Chinese
government to recover degraded grasslands. Despite many field experiments, controversy …

The current review focuses on characterization and conservation efforts vital for the
development of breeding programmes for indigenous beef cattle genetic resources in …

The impact of land management practices on soil erosion and land degradation was
assessed during three consecutive years (December 2008–November 2011) in a rural area …

Provision of landscape amenities produced by farmers, in addition to their economic function
of producing food and fibre, has contributed to a reassessment of the role of agriculture in …