By Sean Mowbray Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often ...

Introduction: In the temperate grasslands of the UK, forage quality is a key factor influencing both animal performance and environmental impact. Because forage quality strongly affects rumen ...

BENGALURU: A high-level panel convened by WestBridge-supported Centre for Policy Design (CPD) at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) has called for reclassification of India’s ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

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In the face of climate change, accelerating nature loss and growing food insecurity, protecting and restoring grasslands and savannahs is more urgent than ever. With less than 10% of these ecosystems ...

Abstract: Natural hay-harvesting grasslands are essential for sustaining livestock through winters in semi-arid temperate steppes. However, limited historical records and the absence of systematic ...

European settlers likened the American prairie to a boundless “sea of grass.” If you zoom in to the perspective of the thousands of species that inhabit this under-appreciated landscape, however, it’s ...

Rupestrian grasslands form an ecosystem of extremes: covering a mere 0.8% of Brazil’s territory, they are home to 15% of the nation’s flora. Of the 5,700 plant species catalogued, 40% can only be ...

New research shows that the presence of solar panels in Colorado's grasslands may reduce water stress, improve soil moisture levels and -- particularly during dry years -- increase plant growth by ...

Resources and Environment College, Xizang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry University, Nyingchi, Tibet, China Introduction: As an important global ecological security barrier, the Qinghai-Tibet ...