Rangelands of China have for centuries provided forage for livestock but now their role in water, soil, and biodiversity conservation is being recognised by Governments and people. However, much of the rangelands has recently degraded anddesertification is nowawidespread problem.The cause of the degradation is over-grazing andover-cultivation. Climate change is exacerbating theproblem.TheChines...

Political instability (PI) occurs between governments and other political elites either at the local, regional, and/or national levels. Planning, implementing, monitoring of sustainable rangeland management strategies have a significant impact on environment an area. In this study, term PI implies unsafe unstable exercise power, is major obstacle to implementation management. The main purpose r...

There is growing evidence of escalating wildlife losses worldwide. Extreme wildlife losses have recently been documented for large parts of Africa, including western, Central and Eastern Africa. Here, we report extreme declines in wildlife and contemporaneous increase in livestock numbers in Kenya rangelands between 1977 and 2016. Our analysis uses systematic aerial monitoring survey data colle...

Replicated cow herds of 15 Angus x Hereford (AH) and 15 Brahman x Hereford (BH) F1 cows each were placed on native rangeland (NR) or native rangeland-complementary forage (NRCF) systems. The NR was 8.1 ha of sagebrush-mixed prairie per cow-calf unit and the NRCF used the same mixed prairie complemented by .4 ha of double-cropped winter wheat and summer annual forage replacing about 30% of the m...

Rangeland production is a foundational ecosystem service and resource on which livestock, wildlife, people depend. Capitalizing recent advancements in the use of remote sensing data across rangelands, we provide estimates herbaceous rangeland from 1986 to 2019 at 16-d annual time steps 30-m resolution western United States. A factorial comparison this dataset three national scale datasets prese...

Understanding the distribution of landscape variables presents several advantages to researchers focusing on ecological studies. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a relatively common productivity variable used to assess, monitor, and compare landscapes. In this study, an NDVI layer was created using Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre 4 (SPOT 4) satellite imagery to comp...