Published in Heliyon
Drought-prone, IPADS, NDVI, EVI, Biomass, Remote sensing, Jigjiga university, Rangeland; Applied ecology; Ecosystem change; Environmental analysis; Natural resource management; Sustainable development, Ecology, Agriculture.
Published in BMC Ecology
BackgroundThe gradual conversion of rangelands into other land use types is one of the main challenges affecting the sustainable management of rangelands in Teltele. This study aimed to examine the changes, drivers, trends in land use and land cover (LULC), to determine the link between the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and forage b...
Published in Tropical animal health and production
The objective was to characterize milk yield and composition from mixed-breed goats kidding in winter and grazing rangelands with 221 (n = 15), 334 (n = 20), or 441 (n = 12) mm of annual rainfall in northern Mexico (22-25°N). Weekly milk yield and composition were recorded and progeny growth performance assessed. Body weight loss during lactation w...
© 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...
