Rangelands in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini contain a rich diversity of valuable fodder trees shrubs. This research is the first attempt to document regional distribution these browse resources. Scientific publications, textbooks, databases, published reports were accessed compile database plant species that recorded as utilised by ruminants non-ruminants. Relevant forage attributes, such...

There is significant uncertainty about the effects of global change on the vegetation and animal productivity of pasture and rangeland ecosystems. This paper presents a synthesis of progress made between 1994 and 1999 in the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Pastures and Rangelands Core Research Project 1 (CRP1) network, a world-wide network of 83 full-time equivalent researchers ...

CORRECTION article Front. Environ. Sci., 17 November 2022Sec. Conservation and Restoration Ecology https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1074642

Climate change is predicted to alter the rainfall regime in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin: total annual rainfall will decrease, while seasonal and inter-annual variation in rainfall will increase. Such changes in the rainfall regime could potentially lead to large-scale changes in aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in the region.We conducted a data-driven evaluation of herbaceous ANP...