The objective of this paper is to identify prospects for stakeholder cooperation effective implementation enhanced rangeland restoration techniques under different land tenure status in Tataouine Governorate southern Tunisia, through the rest technique locally called “Gdel.” This consists leaving a given at reconstitute plant cover. A analysis was conducted using MACTOR methodological framework...

Land use change in rangeland ecosystems is pervasive throughout the western United States with widespread ecological, social and economic implications. In California, rangeland habitats have high biodiversity value, provide significant habitat connectivity and form the foundation for a number of ecosystem services. To comprehensively assess the conservation status of these habitats, we analyzed...

Tajikistan’s rangelands are mostly mountainous and consist of summer winter pastures. Vegetation structure composition in these diverse landscapes generally influenced by environmental factors. The objective this study was to assess the effects aspect on vegetation characteristics two pastures (summer winter) over seasons (autumn spring) Tajikistan. A three-way ANOVA conducted using GLM procedu...

Integrating use of seeded perennial cool-season grass pastures with native rangeland can increase available forage and provide a high plane of nutrition for grazing livestock. Our objective was to compare performance of yearling beef heifers grazing native rangeland with those grazing an integrated system that included seeded forages. Twice-replicated, 3-ha pastures seeded to either ‘Rosana’ we...

This article reports a rapid method for rangeland assessments in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda by harnessing pastoralists’ indigenous knowledge among the Orma, Afar and Karamojong pastoralists. The study developed and evaluated a methodological framework for conducting joint assessments with pastoralist range scouts. The framework has four components: selection of ecological and anthropogenic indi...