Abstract Remotely sensed soil moisture products showed sensitivity to vegetation cover density and typology at regional dryland level. In these regions, drought monitoring is significantly performed using index rainfall data. Recently, observations have increasingly become available. This has hampered scientific progress as regards characterization of land surface processes not just in meteorol...

Soil characteristics and functions are critical determinants of rangeland systems and the ecosystem services that they provide. Rangeland soils are extremely diverse, but an emerging understanding is that paradigms developed in more mesic forest ecosystems may not be applicable. Vascular plants, biological soil crusts, and the soil microbial community are the three major functional groups of or...

abstract one basic method of improving rangelands in a country is the use of native as well as exotic species of plants adaptable. among the but introduced species, atriplex canescens has been introduced in many rangelands, but it is important and necessary to consider it’s effects on native species. in the current study the effect of chemical competition (allelopathy) of atriplex canescens on ...

It is critical for managers to understand the basic fundamental differences of managing introduced and rangeland forages. In the eastern part of Texas, introduced species dominate forage-based livestock production systems. As you move west of the IH35 corridor from Denton to San Antonio and then west of IH37 from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, however, you will notice few introduced species are...

Feral goats (Capra hircus) are ubiquitous across much of Australia's arid and semi-arid rangelands, where they compete with domestic stock, contribute to grazing pressure on fragile ecosystems, and have been implicated in the decline of several native marsupial herbivores. Understanding the success of feral goats in Australia may provide insights into management strategies for this and other in...

Extensive livestock grazing even in unsuitable land has increasingly grown in most parts of semi-arid rangeland. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to identify suitable land for livestock grazing for optimum utilization while causing minimum impact to the environment. This paper adapted the schematic model based on the concepts presented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of suitabi...