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Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie
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In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of multi-paddock (MP) grazing at a high stocking rate compared to light continuous (LC) and heavy continuous (HC) grazing on neighboring commercial ranches in each of three proximate counties in north Texas tall grass prairie.About:
This article is published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 340 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Grazing.read more
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Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review
TL;DR: Grazer effects on SOC are highly context-specific and imply that grazers in different regions might be managed differently to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, according to a multifactorial meta-analysis.
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Adaptive management of biological systems: A review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a structured review of the AM literature that relates to biodiversity and ecosystem management, with the aim of quantifying how rare AM projects actually are, and investigate whether AM practitioners in terrestrial and aquatic systems described the same problems; the degree of consistency in how the term "adaptive management" was applied; the extent to which AM projects were sustained over time; and whether articles describing AM project were more highly cited than comparable non-AM articles.
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Critical review of the impacts of grazing intensity on soil organic carbon storage and other soil quality indicators in extensively managed grasslands.
Mohamed Abdalla,Astley Hastings,David R. Chadwick,Davey L. Jones,Chris D. Evans,Michael P. Jones,Robert M. Rees,Pete Smith +7 more
TL;DR: The impact of grazing on SOC is climate-dependent and increases SOC for C4 but decreases it for C3 and C3-C4 mixed grasslands and has no effect on soil pH.
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Multi-paddock grazing on rangelands: why the perceptual dichotomy between research results and rancher experience?
TL;DR: This work identifies five principles underpinning the adaptive management actions used by successful grazing managers and the ecological, physiological, and behavioral framework they use to achieve desired conservation, production, and financial goals, and outlines knowledge gaps and present testable hypotheses to broaden the understanding of how planned multi-paddock grazing management can be used at the ranching enterprise scale to facilitate the adaptivemanagement of rangelands under dynamic environmental conditions.
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Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda
Division on Earth,Board on Agriculture,Board on Energy,Environmental Systems,Reliable Sequestration +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, and the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for NETs and sequestration are assessed.
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Foraging in a landscape mosaic: selection for energy and minerals in free-ranging cattle.
TL;DR: A model developed to test the importance of nutrients in foraging decisions revealed poor predictions of habitat occupancy on a micro-level, and it was argued that selection occurred mainly at the macro-level.
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Biodiversity as an organizing principle in agroecosystem management: Case studies of holistic resource management practitioners in the USA
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the holistic resource management (HRM) model and results of interviews with 25 farmers and ranchers from across the USA in which perceptions and experiences with respect to the role of biodiversity in the sustainability of their operations were explored.
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Evaluating stocking rate impacts in rangelands: animals don't practice what we preach
Andrew Ash,Dms Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Walker et al. examine the relevance of stocking rate research to the complex and highly variable ecosystems that make up most rangeland enterprises and demonstrate a fundamental difference in the nature of the stocking rate - animal production relationship between the two environments.
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Intensive-Early Stocking and Season-Long Stocking of Kansas Flint Hills Range
Ed F. Smith,Clenton E. Owensby +1 more
TL;DR: For the complete trial, steers under SLS gained more per head, 210 lb compared with 141 lb, due to the 154-day grazing period compared with 75 for IES as mentioned in this paper.
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Paddock Size and Stocking Density Affect Spatial Heterogeneity of Grazing
TL;DR: Grazing distribution can be more even under intensive than extensive management, but this depends on how adaptively the system, particularly the aspects of timing and frequency, is managed.