Rangeland Land-Sharing, Livestock Grazing’s Role in the Conservation of Imperiled Species

Land sharing, conserving biodiversity on productive lands, is globally promoted. Much of the land highest in California’s used for livestock production, providing an opportunity to understand sharing and species conservation. A review United States Fish Wildlife Service listing documents 282 threatened endangered California reveals a complex varied relationship between grazing According these documents, 51% or 143 federally listed animal plant are found habitats with grazing. While stated threat 73% (104) habitat livestock, 59% (85) said be positively influenced, considerable overlap both benefitting from Grazing credited benefiting flowering plants, mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, bird by managing state’s novel vegetation maintaining structure ecosystem functions. Benefits noted across all terrestrial habitats, except alpine, some aquatic including riparian, wetlands, temporary pools. Managed can combat anthropomorphic threats, such as invasive nitrogen deposition, supporting conservation-reliant part sharing.