Biodiversity in rangelands is decreasing, due to intense utilization for livestock production and conversion of rangeland into cropland; yet the outlook of rangeland biodiversity has not been considered in view of future global demand for food. Here we assess the impact of future livestock production on the global rangelands area and their biodiversity. First we formalized existing knowledge ab...

In this study, we analyzed the effects of grazing on native and endemic plant diversity, as well its relationship with pastoral value along a gradient abiotic biotic factors types land management in mountainous area central-eastern Sardinia, Italy. Plant diversity was estimated by conducting floristic survey within plots. total, 231 species were recorded 63 plots distributed study area, total n...

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America R – including grasslands, shrublands, savannas, deserts, prairies, steppe, and tundra – comprise 30–40% of Earth’s ice-free terrestrial surface (depending on one’s definition and data sources; Asner et al. 2004) and account for 91% of the world’s grazing lands (Reid et al. 2008). Encompassing watersheds for vast downstream populatio...

Karami A, Sefidi K, Feghhi J. 2014. Structure and spatial pattern of land uses patches in the Zagros Mountains region in the west of Iran. Biodiversitas 15: 53-59. Landscape ecology as a new interdisciplinary science, concepts, theories and methods provides for evaluation and management of land. Quantification of landscape patterns has key role in the interpretation and modeling of spatial and ...

Grazinglands support the livelihoods of millions of people around the world, as well as supply critical ecosystem services. Communities reliant on rain-fed rangelands are potentially the most vulnerable to increasing climate variability given their dependence on highly climate-sensitive resources. Droughts, which are gradual natural hazards, pose substantial and recurrent economic and ecologica...

Rangelands provide multiple ecosystem services of high value to society, both locally and globally, but are threatened by degradation processes, the impact climate change land-use change, affecting their conservation. Despite this, preservation rangelands has received little attention from governmental non-governmental organizations in Argentina. This article aims propose some concepts principl...

the effects of land use, crop type and crop management on soil fauna were investigated with survey of four habitats in jajarm. the habitats included rangelands, alfalfa (medicago sativa l.) fields and low-input and high-input of wheat (triticum aestivum l.) fields, each with four sample units. in each sample unit, the macrofauna collected with pitfall traps, sorted and counted in terms of famil...

Plant diversity and vegetation distribution in an area are related to the soil physical and chemical properties. The knowledge of relationships between species diversityand soil parameteris essential for sustainable ecosystem management. This study was conducted to investigate the relationships between soil factors and species diversity indices in the protected rangelands of Lashgardar, Malayer...

Natural rangelands occupy about 5.5 million hectares of Tunisia’s landmass, and 38% this area is in Tataouine governorate. Although efforts towards natural restoration are increasing rapidly as a result projects, the degraded has continued to expand severity desertification intensify. Any damage caused by disturbances, such grazing recurrent drought, may be masked return favorable rainfall cond...