Managing grazing to restore soil health, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services

R Teague, U Kreuter - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Ruminants including domestic livestock, have been accused of causing damaging impacts
on the global environment and human well-being. However, with appropriate management …

Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward

N Pettorelli, H Schulte to Bühne… - Remote Sensing in …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring
and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss …

Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity

Z Ratajczak, SL Collins, JM Blair… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - National Acad Sciences
The widespread extirpation of megafauna may have destabilized ecosystems and altered
biodiversity globally. Most megafauna extinctions occurred before the modern record …

[كتاب][B] Open ecosystems: ecology and evolution beyond the forest edge

WJ Bond - 2019‏ - books.google.com
This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of'open ecosystems', which
include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support …

Multi-paddock grazing on rangelands: why the perceptual dichotomy between research results and rancher experience?

R Teague, F Provenza, U Kreuter, T Steffens… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Maintaining or enhancing the productive capacity and resilience of rangeland ecosystems is
critical for the continued support of people who depend on them for their livelihoods …

Rotational grazing on rangelands: reconciliation of perception and experimental evidence

DD Briske, JD Derner, JR Brown, SD Fuhlendorf… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
In spite of overwhelming experimental evidence to the contrary, rotational grazing continues
to be promoted and implemented as the only viable grazing strategy. The goals of this …

Pyric herbivory: rewilding landscapes through the recoupling of fire and grazing

SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, JAY Kerby… - Conservation …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of fire and grazing is largely based on small‐scale experimental studies
in which treatments are uniformly applied to experimental units that are considered …

Area–heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities

O Allouche, M Kalyuzhny… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - National Acad Sciences
For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions
promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche partitioning. However, a …

Ungulate preference for burned patches reveals strength of fire–grazing interaction

BW Allred, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle… - Ecology and …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
The interactions between fire and grazing are widespread throughout fire‐dependent
landscapes. The utilization of burned areas by grazing animals establishes the fire–grazing …

Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

DMJS Bowman, GLW Perry… - … of the Royal …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and
influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient …