Grazing by domestic ungulates has substantial impacts on ecosystem structure and composition. In grasslands of the northern hemisphere, livestock grazing limits populations of small mammals, which are a main food source for a variety of vertebrate predators. However, no experimental studies have ...
These results support the view that ongoing changes in domestic grazing intensity, by affecting small mammal dynamics, can potentially have cascading impacts on higher trophic levels, and strongly influence the dynamics of upland grassland systems....
We investigated experimental warming and simulated grazing (clipping) effects on rangeland quality, as indicated by vegetation production and nutritive quality, in winter-grazed meadows and summer-grazed shrublands on the Tibetan Plateau, a rangeland system experiencing climatic and pastoral land use chang...
sheep grazingbroadleaf treesTo develop an evidence base to help predict the impacts of land management change on flood generation, four experimental sites were established on improved grassland used for sheep grazing at the Pontbren catchment in upland Wales, UK. At each site, three plots were ...
the impacts of climate warming on soil priming remain elusive. Here, we show that experimental warming accelerates soil priming by 12.7% in a temperate grassland. Warming alters bacterial communities, with 38% of unique active phylotypes detected under warming. The functional genes essential for soil...
Grazing Effects on Vegetation Composition and on the Spread of Fire on Open Sand Grasslands We studied the effects of sheep [Ovis aries (L.)] and rabbit [Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.)] grazing on the spread of induced fire on an open sand grassland c... Gábor nodi,M Kertész,Z Botta-Duk...
2009. Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome. Global Change Biology 15(12):2894–2904. Article Google Scholar Heitschmidt RK, Haferkamp MR, Karl MG, Hild AL. 1999. Drought and grazing: I. effects on quantity of forage produced. Journal of...
Dwarf shrubs are a dominant plant type across many regions of the Earth and have hence a large impact on carbon and nutrient cycling rates. Climate change impacts on dwarf shrubs have been extensively studied in the Northern Hemisphere, and there appears to be large variability in response betwee...
The Camera trap experiment was performed on the study sites ‘Peau de Meau’ and ‘Grosse du Levant’ (Fig. A1). Peau de Meau maintains one of the last three remaining Crau plain grasshopper subpopulations and is entirely fenced during the grasshopper season to minimize impacts from grazing or...
sheep grazingbroadleaf treesTo develop an evidence base to help predict the impacts of land management change on flood generation, four experimental sites were established on improved grassland used for sheep grazing at the Pontbren catchment in upland Wales, UK. At each site, three plots were ...