© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Accurate assessments of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are needed at multiple scales given their importance to both local soil health and global C cycles. Rangelands cover 54% of California, representing a large stock of SOC, but existing SOC estimates are uncertain. To improve understanding of fine-resolution SOC stocks in c...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Understanding the response of plant communities to litter removal or addition plays an important role in the sustainable management of rangelands. In this study, we investigated the effect of different litter removal and addition treatments on the annual forage production and on soil carbon and nitrogen contents of four rangeland communities in ari...
Published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Plant density is an important indicator of rangeland monitoring and management. In this paper, we aimed at comparing distance-based methods of density measurement in field and in a simulated approach for two species of Astragalus verus Olivier and Astragalus albispinus Sirj. & Bornm with random and regular distribution pattern respectively. Then, w...
Published in Journal of Ecology and Environment
The aims of the study were to analyze (1) the effects of Prosopis juliflora (Prosopis) on the spatial distribution and soil seed banks (SSB) diversity and density, (2) the effects of environmental factors on SSB diversity and density (number of seeds in the soil per unit area), and (3) the effects of animal fecal droppings on SSB diversity, density...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Wild rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC.), a member of the Brassicaceae family, is vital in natural areas and soil protections as well as in human and animal nutrition. The study was conducted to determine the appropriate row spacing of Turkey’s native plant wild rocket in Konya conditions. This study was conducted in 2015; observations and meas...
Published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
BackgroundTraditional habitat knowledge, like the classification of folk habitats and how people partition their landscape into habitats, is an emerging but still understudied part of traditional ecological knowledge. Our objectives were to reconstruct the folk habitats and the partitioning of the landscape into these folk habitats by Mongolian her...
Published in Journal of Mountain Science
Increasing populations of large carnivores are leading to tension and conflicts with livestock production, a situation that potentially might escalate. In Norway the objective of the large carnivore policy is two-folded: to ensure viable carnivore populations and to secure a sustainable grazing industry. The main instrument is zonation, with carniv...
Global change is a complex process encompassing environmental, climatic, social, economic, cultural and political changes. It has always affected agro-pastoral systems worldwide and compromised their sustainability resulting in tremendous changes of the pastoral systems including a decline in rangeland resources and the number of herds, sedentarism...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
There are contested views on the effects of grazing on soil carbon. A study was done to assess the effect of grazing and other controlling factors on soil organic carbon in arid and semiarid rangelands. Five rangeland sites were selected for sampling. Each rangeland was divided into three grazing intensities: ungrazed, moderately grazed, and severe...
Published in Landscape Ecology
ContextBurrowing mammals play a role in rangeland disturbance worldwide, enhancing habitat for certain species while negatively affecting others. However, little is known concerning effects of disturbance spatial pattern on co-occuring fauna. In the North American Great Plains, colonial black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) may enhance h...
