Livestock plays an important economic role in Niger, especially in the semi-arid regions, while being highly vulnerable as a result of the large inter-annual variability of precipitation and, hence, rangeland production. This study aims to support effective rangeland management by developing an approach for mapping rangeland biomass production. The observed spatiotemporal variability of biomass...

Collaborative adaptive management is a means to achieve social and ecological goals in complex natural resource settings. Evaluation of collaborative outcomes, however, difficult at the scale large landscapes. We developed an approach for such evaluations using long-term, spatio-temporal gridded or county-level datasets alongside local information on changes ranch ownership. applied this evalua...

Chemical control ofweeds has increased agricultural productivity, but complete reliance on chemicals has serious drawbacks. These include high cost per acre, decreasing effectiveness, negative effects on plant community diversity, and increased opportunities for environmental contamination. One alternative is biocontrol, the use ofbiologicalfactors that naturally limit weed populations. Long-te...

Based on the Project report of Determination Rangeland Availability and Range Status Classes carried out by Management Eastern Anatolia Agricultural Research Institute, eleven districts Çanakkale are ordered in terms rangeland quality. For this reason, four different rankings were obtained AHP, TOPSIS, VIKOR WASPAS methods. According to made methods, while district with highest quality was Biga...

Prescribed rangeland burning in April is a long-standing practice in the Flint Hills region of eastern Kansas to maintain the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The smoke plumes originating from these fires increases ambient PM2.5 concentrations and potentially contributes to ozone (O3) exceedances in downwind communities. Source apportionment research using Unmix modeling has been utilized to estima...

since last decades, there has been a growing interest in the human/social dimensions of natural resources governance especially the structure of social networks in achieving to successful co-management of natural resources. network analysis as a suitable tool in optimum planning of the “network management” of rangeland in regional scale, can improve inter-organizational decision-making and coor...