Livestock sustainability research in Africa with a focus on the environment

M Balehegn, E Kebreab, A Tolera, S Hunt… - Animal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
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Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally

C Xu, BR Silliman, J Chen, X Li, MS Thomsen, Q Zhang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Effect of Forest Landscape Restoration on Ecosystem Services in Ethiopia: Review for Future Insight

GY Hirpa, SC Letema… - Indonesian Journal of …, 2023 - ojs.literacyinstitute.org
Forests are crucial covering 31% of the Earth's land surface. Deforestation has caused
damage to these forest landscapes limiting their ability to provide ecosystem services like …

Structural diversity consistently mediates species richness effects on aboveground carbon along altitudinal gradients in northern Ethiopian grazing exclosures

F Noulèkoun, E Birhane, S Mensah, H Kassa… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grazing exclosures have been promoted as an effective and low-cost land management
strategy to recover vegetation and associated functions in degraded landscapes in the …

Grazing exclosures increase soil organic carbon stock at a rate greater than “4 per 1000” per year across agricultural landscapes in Northern Ethiopia

F Noulèkoun, E Birhane, H Kassa, A Berhe… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The establishment of grazing exclosures is widely practiced to restore degraded agricultural
lands and forests. Here, we evaluated the potential of grazing exclosures to contribute to the …

Effects of grazing exclusion on spring and autumn pastures in arid regions of China: Insights from field surveys and landsat images

X Tai, HE Epstein, B Li - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Overgrazing has caused serious grassland degradation, and grazing exclusion (GE) has
been considered an effective and economic approach for restoring vegetation and soils in …

Impacts of livestock grazing on vegetation characteristics and soil chemical properties of alpine meadows in the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

L Ji, Y Qin, SO Jimoh, X Hou, N Zhang, Y Gan, Y Luo - Ecoscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Livestock grazing is one of the significant causes of land degradation. However, the effect of
contrasting grazing intensities on soil properties and vegetation in the southeastern Qinghai …

Sacred groves: A model of Zagros forests for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation

A Moradi, N Shabanian - Environmental Conservation, 2023 - cambridge.org
Forests are the most important carbon pools among terrestrial ecosystems, and ensuring
less disturbance of sacred groves might constitute a form of forest management for carbon …

Optimizing grazing exclusion duration for carbon sequestration in grasslands: Incorporating temporal heterogeneity of aboveground biomass and soil organic carbon

L Wan, G Liu, J Sun, J Ma, H Cheng, Y Shen… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Grasslands account for approximately one-third of the global terrestrial carbon stocks.
However, a limited understanding of the impact of grazing exclusion on carbon storage in …

Ecosystem restoration in fire-managed savanna woodlands: Effects on biodiversity, local livelihoods and fire intensity

MU Johansson, FB Abebe, S Nemomissa, T Bekele… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
Ethiopia aims to restore 15 million ha degraded forests and woodlands, but effects on the
potentially contrasting goals of long-term carbon storage, biodiversity and sustainable …