Rangeland Ecology Management

Author : Victor R. Squires
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 1634825845

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Rangeland Ecology, Management and Conservation Benefits by Victor R. Squires Pdf

Rangelands are a type of land that include vast grasslands, shrublands, woodland, wetlands and deserts, grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals. They comprise almost one-half of all the lands in the world. This book analyzes the sustainability of beef cattle systems of the Spanish Rangelands known as Dehesas. These systems are considered as outstanding High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems and the most agroforestry systems in Europe. Additionally, on a global scale, China has around one-eighth of the rangelands (the second largest area of land in any country other than Australia). These rangelands are mostly inhabited by peoples of various ethnic minorities. This book provides an overview of the environment and current development trends in the pastoral regions including a glimpse of the people affected most by any conservation or development effort and provide a framework for future integrated conservation and development work in the pastoral regions of north and north-west China. Furthermore, land degradation and biodiversity loss are the most critical issues of ecological environmenti n the West of China and they are the main causes for poverty and constraints for economic development. This book examines rangeland degradation in China as well as rangeland management and livestock production in an effort to arrest and reverse rangeland degradation. In other chapters, changes in vegetation related with grazing are reviewed, the benefits of reintegrating burrowing bettongs as a part of rangeland restoration programs, and integrating national feral camel management plans that are being implemented across the camel range in Australia, aiming to control the damage caused by camels (there are around 750,000 feral camels in arid and semi-arid rangelands in Australia).

Author : Harold Heady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429966392

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Rangeland Ecology And Management by Harold Heady Pdf

The science of range management, like many other resource disciplines, has embraced and integrated environmental concerns in the field, the laboratory, and policy. Rangeland Ecology and Management now brings this integrated approach to the classroom in a thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and readable text. The authors discuss the basics of ran

Author : David D. Briske
Publisher : Springer
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319467092

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Rangeland Systems by David D. Briske Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third assesses several major challenges confronting global rangelands in the 21st century. This book will compliment applied range management textbooks by describing the conceptual foundation on which the rangeland profession is based. It has been written to be accessible to a broad audience, including ecosystem managers, educators, students and policy makers. The content is founded on the collective experience, knowledge and commitment of 80 authors who have worked in rangelands throughout the world. Their collective contributions indicate that a more comprehensive framework is necessary to address the complex challenges confronting global rangelands. Rangelands represent adaptive social-ecological systems, in which societal values, organizations and capacities are of equal importance to, and interact with, those of ecological processes. A more comprehensive framework for rangeland systems may enable management agencies, and educational, research and policy making organizations to more effectively assess complex problems and develop appropriate solutions.

Author : Victor R. Squires
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Pasture ecology
ISBN : 1634825047

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Rangeland Ecology, Management and Conservation Benefits by Victor R. Squires Pdf

Written by seventeen experts in the field of rangeland management, this compilation of essays brings to light the latent issues concerning this subject to readers all over the globe. Though technical approaches can address some issues, social processes ultimately prevent the balancing of these matters. Socio-economic and political institutions are often a stumbling block for improving rangeland management. Human intervention (such as burning and grazing) have been used as rehabilitation efforts to address reverse land degradation problems. It is also hoped that these methods will bring about ecological restoration for more than 30 percent of the world's land mass and provide living conditions for 1 billion people across every inhabited continent. Multiple-use has become an important factor in the last few decades, especially when discussing global climate change. The extensive bibliography we provide will give researchers, members of academia and policy makers' contemplative subject matter; they may access multi-lingual literature that give insight into the issues concerning rangeland situations.

Author : A. C. Grice,K. C. Hodgkinson
Publisher : CABI
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0851997538

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Global Rangelands by A. C. Grice,K. C. Hodgkinson Pdf

Although traditionally defined as areas where natural vegetation is exploited for grazing by domestic and native herbivores, rangelands are used by many different people, for a host of purposes. As well as livestock products, rangelands provide fuels, minerals and water and are used for ecotourism, recreation, nature conservation and as carbon sinks. More than half of the earth's land surface is rangeland and millions of people, both within and outside the rangelands, depend on them. This book addresses the important issues confronting the rangelands and presents new concepts and approaches for the management of rangeland resources. It is relevant to the people who live in or depend on the rangelands, and to the institutions and organisations that support them.

Author : J Ludwig,D Tongway,K Hodgkinson,D Freudenberger,J Noble
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643102668

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Landscape Ecology, Function and Management by J Ludwig,D Tongway,K Hodgkinson,D Freudenberger,J Noble Pdf

This book encapsulates the extensive knowledge developed by CSIRO's National Rangelands Program on how rangeland landscapes function and the implications for management. It looks at the ecology of rangeland landscape processes and deals with what happens when things go wrong, when a landscape loses its ability to efficiently capture and store water and nutrients - a state the authors call dysfunctional.Ways of managing rangelands in response to understanding landscape function are also considered. The concluding Section looks to the future providing some scenarios for the way rangeland landscapes may be used in 2020.

Author : National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Rangeland Classification
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309048798

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Rangeland Health by National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Rangeland Classification Pdf

Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and management of rangelands have been matters for scientific inquiry and public debate since the 1880s, when reports of widespread range degradation and livestock losses led to the first attempts to inventory and classify rangelands. Scientists are now questioning the utility of current methods of rangeland classification and inventory, as well as the data available to determine whether rangelands are being degraded. These experts, who are using the same methods and data, have come to different conclusions. This book examines the scientific basis of methods used by federal agencies to inventory, classify, and monitor rangelands; it assesses the success of these methods; and it recommends improvements. The book's findings and recommendations are of interest to the public; scientists; ranchers; and local, state, and federal policymakers.

Author : Kristie Maczko,Aaron Harp,John Tanaka,Matt Reeves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000580976

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Rangeland Sustainability by Kristie Maczko,Aaron Harp,John Tanaka,Matt Reeves Pdf

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions. It takes a fresh look at the information available on current and emerging issues across rangelands, and presents collaborative research for future progress. Authors offer a framework for evaluating rangeland sustainability, the best available data to use, as well as an interactive tool for use at a variety of geographical scales. Readers with limited knowledge of rangelands, as well as professional rangeland ecologists and land managers, will gain an understanding of the best tools available today to assess sustainability across rangeland ecosystems in the U.S.

Author : D. J. Pratt,M. D. Gwynne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Ecology
ISBN : UCAL:B4532126

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Rangeland Management and Ecology in East Africa by D. J. Pratt,M. D. Gwynne Pdf

Author : Roy H. Behnke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : MINN:31951D024070052

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Rethinking Range Ecology by Roy H. Behnke Pdf

Author : John A. Stanturf,Mac A. Callaham
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128131947

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Soils and Landscape Restoration by John A. Stanturf,Mac A. Callaham Pdf

Soils and Landscape Restoration provides a multidisciplinary synthesis on the sustainable management and restoration of soils in various landscapes. The book presents applicable knowledge of above- and below-ground interactions and biome specific realizations along with in-depth investigations of particular soil degradation pathways. It focuses on severely degraded soils (e.g., eroded, salinized, mined) as well as the restoration of wetlands, grasslands and forests. The book addresses the need to bring together current perspectives on land degradation and restoration in soil science and restoration ecology to better incorporate soil-based information when restoration plans are formulated. Incudes a chapter on climate change and novel ecosystems, thus collating the perspective of soil scientists and ecologists on this consequential and controversial topic Connects science to international policy and practice Includes summaries at the end of each chapter to elucidate principles and key points

Author : Nathan F. Sayre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226083391

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The Politics of Scale by Nathan F. Sayre Pdf

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth’s ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production—from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water degradation—far less is known about the historic role science has played in rangeland management and politics. Steeped in US soil, this first history of rangeland science looks to the origins of rangeland ecology in the late nineteenth-century American West, exploring the larger political and economic forces that—together with scientific study—produced legacies focused on immediate economic success rather than long-term ecological well being. During the late 1880s and early 1890s, a variety of forces—from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the extermination of bison, foreign investment, and lack of government regulation—promoted free-for-all access to and development of the western range, with disastrous environmental consequences. To address the crisis, government agencies turned to scientists, but as Nathan F. Sayre shows, range science grew in a politically fraught landscape. Neither the scientists nor the public agencies could escape the influences of bureaucrats and ranchers who demanded results, and the ideas that became scientific orthodoxy—from fire suppression and predator control to fencing and carrying capacities—contained flaws and blind spots that plague public debates about rangelands to this day. Looking at the global history of rangeland science through the Cold War and beyond, The Politics of Scale identifies the sources of past conflicts and mistakes and helps us to see a more promising path forward, one in which rangeland science is guided less by capital and the state and more by communities working in collaboration with scientists.

Author : D. J. Pratt,M. D. Gwynne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Range management
ISBN : 0340197676

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Rangeland Management and Ecology in East Africa by D. J. Pratt,M. D. Gwynne Pdf

Author : Lance B. McNew,David K. Dahlgren,Jeffrey L. Beck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031340376

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Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation by Lance B. McNew,David K. Dahlgren,Jeffrey L. Beck Pdf

This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex inter-relationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. More than half of all lands worldwide, and up to 70% of the western USA, are classified as rangelands—uncultivated lands that often support grazing by domestic livestock. The rangelands of North America provide a vast array of goods and services, including significant economic benefit to local communities, while providing critical habitat for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife. This book provides compendium of recent data and synthesis from more than 100 experts in wildlife and rangeland ecology in Western North America. It provides a current and in-depth synthesis of knowledge related to wildlife ecology in rangeland ecosystems, and the tools used to manage them, to serve current and future wildlife biologists and rangeland managers in the working landscapes of the West. The book also identifies information gaps and serves as a jumping-off point for future research of wildlife in rangeland ecosystems. While the content focuses on wildlife ecology and management in rangelands of Western North America, the material has important implications for rangeland ecosystems worldwide.

Author : Timothy E. Fulbright
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Range management
ISBN : 160344565X

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White-tailed Deer Habitat by Timothy E. Fulbright Pdf

For most of the last century, range management meant managing land for livestock. How well a landowner grew the grass that cattle ate was the best measure of success. In this century, landowners look to hunting and wildlife viewing for income; rangeland is now also wildlife habitat, and they are managing their land not just for cattle but also for wildlife, most notably deer and quail. Unlike other books on white-tailed deer in places where rainfall is relatively high and the environment stable, this book takes an ecological approach to deer management in the semiarid lands of Oklahoma, Texas, and northern Mexico. These are the least productive of white-tail habitats, where periodic drought punctuates long-term weather patterns. The book's focus on this landscape across political borders is one of its original and lasting contributions. Another is its contention that good management is based on ecological principles that guide the manager's thinking about: Habitat Requirements of White-Tailed Deer White-Tailed Deer Nutrition Carrying Capacity Habitat Manipulation Predators Hunting Timothy Edward Fulbright is a Regents Professor and the Meadows Professor in Semiarid Land Ecology at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. J. Alfonso Ortega-S., is an associate professor at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.