The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi‐trophic: a meta‐analysis

A Filazzola, C Brown, MA Dettlaff, A Batbaatar… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic disturbance has generated a significant loss of biodiversity worldwide and
grazing by domestic herbivores is a contributing disturbance. Although the effects of grazing …

Climate-driven ecological thresholds in China's drylands modulated by grazing

C Li, B Fu, S Wang, LC Stringer, W Zhou, Z Ren… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Degradation of ecosystems can occur when certain ecological thresholds are passed below
which ecosystem responses remain within 'safe ecological limits'. Ecosystems such as …

Associations among goods, impacts and ecosystem services provided by livestock farming

B Dumont, J Ryschawy, M Duru, M Benoit, V Chatellier… - Animal, 2019 - cambridge.org
Livestock is a major driver in most rural landscapes and economics, but it also polarises
debate over its environmental impacts, animal welfare and human health. Conversely, the …

A global meta-analysis of grazing effects on plant richness

J Gao, Y Carmel - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
A major challenge in rangeland ecology is understanding diverse responses of diversity to
grazing, what factors determine these responses and what their relative importance is …

An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production

K Resare Sahlin, LJ Gordon, R Lindborg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The production and consumption of animal-source foods must be transformed to mitigate
negative environmental outcomes, including greenhouse gas emissions and land-use …

Diversity of plant and soil microbes mediates the response of ecosystem multifunctionality to grazing disturbance

R Zhang, Z Wang, S Niu, D Tian, Q Wu, X Gao… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning across grassland ecosystems. However, few
studies have examined how grazing intensity affects ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) via …

Grassland biodiversity and ecosystem functions benefit more from cattle than sheep in mixed grazing: A meta-analysis

J Su, F Xu, Y Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Grasslands have been widely grazed for livestock production by cattle and sheep. However,
previous studies have mainly focused on the impacts of single-species grazing on grassland …

Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis

R Zhang, D Tian, HYH Chen… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biodiversity drives the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions related to carbon and
nutrient cycling (ecosystem multifunctionality, EMF), and biodiversity and ecosystem …

A global meta-analyses of the response of multi-taxa diversity to grazing intensity in grasslands

C Wang, Y Tang - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Livestock grazing is an important component and driver of biodiversity in grassland
ecosystems. While numerous studies and a few meta-analyses had been conducted on the …

Total and active soil fungal community profiles were significantly altered by six years of warming but not by grazing

R Che, S Wang, Y Wang, Z Xu, W Wang, Y Rui… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We examined the responses of total and active soil fungal communities to experimental
warming, moderate grazing, and their combination. The six years of field experiments were …