[HTML][HTML] Animal board invited review: Grassland-based livestock farming and biodiversity

MD Fraser, HE Vallin, BP Roberts - animal, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Grasslands dominate land cover nationally and globally, and their composition, structure
and habitat value are strongly influenced by the actions of domestic and wild grazing …

[HTML][HTML] From functional diversity to human well-being: A conceptual framework for agroecosystem sustainability

EG de la Riva, W Ulrich, P Batáry, J Baudry… - Agricultural …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
CONTEXT Agricultural intensification contributes to global food security and well-being by
supplying the food demand of a growing human population. However, ongoing land-use …

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

S Garcés-Pastor, E Coissac, S Lavergne… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract The European Alps are highly rich in species, but their future may be threatened by
ongoing changes in human land use and climate. Here, we reconstructed vegetation …

Vegetation type and grazing intensity jointly shape grazing effects on grassland biodiversity

P Török, K Penksza, E Tóth, A Kelemen… - Ecology and …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the Palaearctic steppe zone, overgrazing was identified as one of the key drivers of
declining grassland biodiversity, which underlines the necessity of the functional evaluation …

Long-term ecological research in southern Brazil grasslands: Effects of grazing exclusion and deferred grazing on plant and arthropod communities

PMA Ferreira, BO Andrade, LR Podgaiski, AC Dias… - PLoS …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Grazing exclusion may lead to biodiversity loss and homogenization of naturally
heterogeneous and species-rich grassland ecosystems, and these effects may cascade to …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological restoration policy should pay more attention to the high productivity grasslands

H Yan, Z Xue, Z Niu - Ecological Indicators, 2021‏ - Elsevier
To address severe grassland degradation problems, China has been implementing several
national restoration programs, which have been reported to mitigate the deterioration of …

Snow cover phenology is the main driver of foraging habitat selection for a high-alpine passerine during breeding: implications for species persistence in the face of …

J Resano-Mayor, F Korner-Nievergelt, S Vignali… - Biodiversity and …, 2019‏ - Springer
High-alpine ecosystems are strongly seasonal and adverse environments. In these
ecosystems, the brevity of optimal breeding conditions means species must efficiently track …

Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle

N Villar, C Paz, V Zipparro, S Nazareth… - Functional …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical rainforests are populated by large frugivores that feed upon fruit‐producing woody
species, yet their role in regulating the cycle of globally important biogeochemical elements …

Sheep grazing in the North Atlantic region: A long-term perspective on environmental sustainability

LC Ross, G Austrheim, LJ Asheim, G Bjarnason… - Ambio, 2016‏ - Springer
Sheep grazing is an important part of agriculture in the North Atlantic region, defined here as
the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Scotland. This process has played a key …

Effects of grazing management on biodiversity across trophic levels–The importance of livestock species and stocking density in salt marshes

R Van Klink, S Nolte, FS Mandema… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
European coastal salt marshes are important for the conservation of numerous species of
specialist plants, invertebrates, breeding and migratory birds. When these marshes are …