Most of the attention given to intraspecific crop, livestock, and aquaculture diversity in
agricultural production systems has been targeted at their roles in providing provisioning …

Floristic diversity changes substantially depending on the type of land management. We
evaluated the impact of a continuous (CG) and rotational (RG) grazing system on the …

The horse industry has soared in Europe in the last decades. This article analyses the
existing and possible interactions between horses and rangelands, by taking horse feeding …

The modern horse (Equus caballus) evolved in North America about four million years ago,
dispersing into Eurasia approximately two to three million years ago. Following this …

Background: Large areas of heathland landscapes in Galicia, north-west Spain, have
traditionally been extensively grazed by free-ranging cattle and wild ponies. Recently, a …

Large herbivores are key regulators of open habitats across the world. Free roaming ponies
have a prominent ecological role in many Atlantic landscapes, where different habitats with …

This review discusses the scientific evidence that supports the nutritional value of mare milk
and how its properties are essentially achieved when mares are managed under grazing …

The number of horses in northern Spanish mountains has increased in recent decades, but
little is known about their grazing behaviour, performance and potential for foal meat …

In several regions in Europe, the horse is becoming a common grazer on semi-natural and
cultivated grasslands, though the pasturing benefits for animals and biodiversity alike are …

Domestic herbivores are important for an efficient utilization of marginal areas dominated by
heathland vegetation from both productive and environmental points of view. In this paper …