European grasslands encompass a wide range of habitats that vary greatly in terms of their management, agricultural productivity, socio-economic value and nature conservation status, reflecting local differences in physical environment and economy, the effects of traditional practices and impacts of recent management. Widespread loss of biodiversity, as well as other environmental problems, hav...

Geese are large, herbivorous birds that graze in huge flocks in ways that may have a considerable impact on vegetation. This is exemplified best in two subspecies of snow geese, the lesser and the greater, both of which have increased dramatically in numbers in recent decades. In arctic coastal salt marshes, moderate goose grazing on Puccinellia phryganodes enhances plant production, but if it ...

Projected changes in global climate have important ramifications for the future of national parks and other reserves set aside to conserve ecological uniqueness. We explored potential implications of climatic changes on lifeform distribution and growth at Wind Cave National Park (WCNP), South Dakota, which lies on a climatically determined ecotone between grassland and forest. Fire, promoted by...

Panicum turgidum is one of the most drought resistant plants in the Egyptian desert. Five habitat types were selected for the study: sand dunes (North Sinai and in Wady El-Natrun), gravel desert, coastal plain, and water runnels of a wadi bed (South Sinai and Eastern Desert). About 47.4% of the studied sites were subjected to high grazing pressure, 26.3% to moderate grazing pressure; the remain...

Alpine meadows are robust nitrous oxide (N 2 O) sources that continually experience overgrazing on the Tibetan Plateau. However, mechanisms underlying N O fluxes poorly understood. The effects of grazing activity grassland emission rates, soil and plant characteristics were investigated using a meta-analysis approach. This study revealed effect size was 0.31 ± 0.08 rates ( p < 0.0001), i...

Known as the “roof of world”, Tibetan Plateau hosts largest pastoral alpine ecosystem in world. Nevertheless, there is currently no consensus on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes after livestock grazing grassland this region. Here, a meta-analysis was performed based 55 published studies to quantify grazing-induced SOC (0–30 cm) Plateau. The results showed that significantly increased...

Grassland degradation has become one of the most important ecological and environmental problems in world, affecting balance grassland welfare residents. To reveal impact mechanism herders’ livelihood constraints on degradation, to explore comprehensive management methods ensure livelihoods restoration, this paper constructed an evolutionary game model considering local governments herders. It ...

Many benefits have been obtained from rotational grazing, including management flexibility and livestock distribution, but long-term positive effects on plant and animal production have been inconsistent. The purpose of this case study was to investigate nutrient intake of animals in 2 production scale graxing treatments. The study site was the Texas Experimental Ranch located in Throckmorton C...