Damaschino, Grace
Compost application to rangelands has the potential to sequester carbon (C) and add essential plant nutrients to the soil. The California Department of Food and Agriculture's (CDFA) Healthy Soils Project (HSP) provides financial support to farmers and landowners to implement innovative practices that promote soil health. The CDFA is currently recom...
batova, olga n. markov, nikolay i. titov, sergey v. tchabovsky, andrey v.
Colonizing populations at the leading edge of range expansion are expected to have a reduced genetic diversity and strong genetic structure caused by genetic drift and allele surfing. Until now, few studies have found the genetic signatures of allele surfing in expanding wild populations. Using mtDNA markers, we studied the genetic structure of the...
Runting, Rebecca K King, Darran Nolan, Martin Navarro, Javier Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo Rhodes, Jonathan R Gao, Lei Watson, Ian Ash, Andrew Reside, April E
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Environmental Research Letters
Livestock production is an integral part of the global food system and the livelihoods of local people, but it also raises questions of environmental sustainability due to issues such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity decline, land degradation, and water use. Further challenges to extensive livestock systems may arise from changes in ...
kluth, janessa wyffels, samuel eberly, jed vermeire, lance marlow, clayton delcurto, timothy
In the United States, rangelands comprise 30% of the total land cover and serve as a valuable resource for livestock, wildlife, water, and recreation. Rangelands vary in climate and are often subject to disturbances like drought and wildfire. Historic wildfire trends have indicated an increase in wildfire size and frequency, raising societal and ec...
paliwal, ambica mhelezi, magdalena galgallo, diba banerjee, rupsha malicha, wario whitbread, anthony
The remarkable adaptability and rapid proliferation of Prosopis juliflora have led to its invasive status in the rangelands of Kenya, detrimentally impacting native vegetation and biodiversity. Exacerbated by human activities such as overgrazing, deforestation, and land degradation, these conditions make the spread and management of this species a ...
rigge, matthew bunde, brett postma, kory oliver, simon mueller, norman
Rangeland ecosystems in the western United States are vulnerable to climate change, fire, and anthropogenic disturbances, yet classification of rangeland areas remains difficult due to frequently sparse vegetation canopies that increase the influence of soils and senesced vegetation, the overall abundance of senesced vegetation, heterogeneity of li...
senty, paul guzinski, radoslaw grogan, kenneth buitenwerf, robert ardö, jonas eklundh, lars koukos, alkiviadis tagesson, torbern munk, michael
Monitoring ecosystems at regional or continental scales is paramount for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and sustainable land management. Effective monitoring requires satellite imagery with both high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution. However, there is currently no single, freely available data source that fulfi...
jacobo, elizabeth j. martínez ortiz, ulises j. cotroneo, santiago m. rodríguez, adriana m.
There is a widespread concern about the negative impact of intensive livestock farming on climate change and biodiversity loss. We analyzed the trade-off between meat production and environmental variables related to global warming—energy consumption, use efficiency of energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon footprint, and GHG balance—of two...
Marín, María F Naya, Hugo Espasandin, Ana C Navajas, Elly Devincenzi, Thais Carriquiry, Mariana
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Translational Animal Science
Heifers’ energy efficiency on grazing conditions was positively correlated to paternal estimated breeding value for residual feed intake (RFI) with minor differences in reproductive performance, in favor of more efficient heifers, only during the first breeding and calving seasons. Thus, we demonstrated that RFI selection in confinement conditions ...
Bark, Caroline
Land degradation poses a significant global challenge, affecting vast areas of the world's land and impacting billions of people. Maintaining the land’s ability to provide vital ecosystem services is essential for global food security and climate mitigation. However, land degradation drives us in the opposite direction. Kenya is particularly vulner...