Large landscapes exhibit natural heterogeneity. Land management can impose additional variation, altering ecosystem patterns. Habitat characteristics may reflect these factors, potentially resulting in habitat differences that manifest along jurisdictional boundaries. We characterized the patchwork of habitats across a case study landscape, Grand Canyon Protected Area-Centered Ecosystem. asked:...

The impacts of agro-pastoral activities on soil properties, plus nutritive value and residual standing biomass herbaceous plants in areas different land uses western Serengeti, were evaluated. Vegetation sampled along 4,000 m transects laid across fallow land, grazed only by livestock, mixed grazing (livestock wildlife) wildlife only. A total number 123 plant species encountered during sampling...

We developed further an IPCC-based Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) to monitor soil C stocks and flows for New Zealand. Geo-referenced soil C data were extended from 340 to 1119 sites (0.3 m depth) and used to assign steady-state soil C stocks to various combinations of soil class, climate, and land use. Overall, CMS soil C stock estimates are consistent with detailed, stratified soil C measureme...

The Natural Protected Area Peninsula Valdés, located in Northeastern Patagonia, is one of the largest conservation units of arid lands in Argentina. Although this area has been in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1999, it has been continually exposed to sheep grazing and cattle farming for more than a century which have had a negative impact on the local environment. Our aim is to describe ...

Intensive livestock grazing was an important cause of reduction in surface fire occurrence in many Western forests. This effect occurred primarily during the late 1800s and early decades of the 1900s. Very large herds of sheep, goats, cattle and horses removed the grass cover in under stories of ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests. In 1890, for example, there were more than 5 million sheep...

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 d...

Northern Australia is characterised by high rainfall variability and extended droughts that challenge sustainable profitable management of grazing properties. To achieve drought resilience, emphasis must be placed on supporting livestock managers to prepare for as well implementing appropriate response recovery actions. Here we describe insights learnings gained from working with scientists, in...

ball et al., 1997). The ecology of natural populations of plantain and its biology as a weed have been investigated Graziers in the northeast USA often face forage shortages in mid(Bassett, 1973; Kuiper and Bos, 1992). Apart from older summer. Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) and English plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) have been introduced in the USA as sumer-active reports in the scientific li...

Bighorn sheep currently occupy just 30% of their historic distribution, and persist in populations less than 5% as abundant overall as their early 19th century counterparts. Present-day recovery of bighorn sheep populations is in large part limited by periodic outbreaks of respiratory disease, which can be transmitted to bighorn sheep via contact with domestic sheep grazing in their vicinity. I...