The main objective of this study was to assess factors affecting early entrance and later exit of herders from summer rangelands. The study population consisted of heads of Nomads in Kouhdasht region, Lorestan province, Iran. According to Cochran formula among 1038 Nomadic families, 310 families were selected with stratified random sampling in 2015. In order to assess validity, expert's opinion...

introduction ownership is an important element for sustainability development in natural resource management. rangelands vegetations are important factor for produce in traditional herding therefore recognition of different utilization methods and management of this vegetation resource production for animal grazing and rangelands condition is very important. so this research carried out in 2009...

desert and marginal lands of playas which are covered with halophyte shrubs, play a great role in supply of forage for livestock as winter rangelands. in this research, plant samples were collected from four palatable halophyte species for zandi sheep of qom desert rangelands including seidlitzia rosmarinus، halocnemum strobilaceum، alhagi camelorum and tamarix passerinoides in two phenological...

the fire as one of the ecological factor has positive or negative effects on ecosystems components. therefore, this study was evaluated the effect of fire on some soil physico-chemical properties in winter rangelands of behshahr. so that two burned sites were selected in rangelands and changed rangelands to wheat and barley with two control areas (unburned) in each of them. the soil sampling wa...

Livestock grazing potentially has substantial influence on fuel characteristics in rangelands around the globe. However, information quantifying the impacts of grazing on rangeland fuel characteristics is limited, and the effects of grazing on fuels are important because fuel characteristics are one of the primary factors determining risk, severity, continuity, and size of wildfires. We investi...

Rangelands are expansive, unimproved lands located in arid or semi–arid regions, spanning a variety of landscapes including savannahs, high and low altitude deserts, mountain meadows, and tundra. Rangelands are generally unsuitable for crop production due to aridity, topography, and extreme temperatures. Rangelands support varying mixtures of native and nonnative grasses, grass–like plants, for...

in order to determine the diet of dalagh sheep, winter rangeland of gomishan plain was selected. after delineating of the grazingland territory, rangeland condition and plant combination was determined by range value method and range trend was obtained by trend balance method. time of bite-count record was done in morning and afternoon in a five-day period; first week of november (1389) and las...