Rangelands cover 70% of the world's land surface, and provide critical ecosystem services primary production, soil carbon storage, nutrient cycling. These are governed by very fine-scale spatial patterning carbon, nutrients, plant species at centimeter-to-meter scales, a phenomenon known as “islands fertility”. Such dynamics challenging to detect with most satellite manned airborne platforms. R...

Small ruminant farming is the main rural occupation in mountain areas of Morocco. This activity subject to numerous pressures, including repeated climatic hazards that modify pastoral resource availability and trigger changes production systems. study aimed identify analyse utilisation resources acknowledged by farmers over past 40 years for small systems Central High Atlas region We hypothesis...

It is critical for managers to understand the basic fundamental differences of managing introduced and rangeland forages. In the eastern part of Texas, introduced species dominate forage-based livestock production systems. As you move west of the IH35 corridor from Denton to San Antonio and then west of IH37 from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, however, you will notice few introduced species are...

Rangeland ecosystems cover approximately one-third of the land area in the United States and half of the land area of California. This large land area, coupled with the propensity of grasses to allocate a considerable proportion of their photosynthate belowground, leads to high soil carbon (C) sequestration potential. Annual grasslands typical of the Mediterranean climates of the western United...

Over more than a century there has been debate about the interactions of kangaroos and introduced domestic stock, especially sheep, in the semi-arid and arid rangelands. The potential for competition between the species is still controversial, with pastoralists generally assuming that exploitative competition is a continuing feature of the rangelands, with competition by kangaroos leading to re...