Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Context Grasslands provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) for humans. While much
ES research has focused on forests and wetlands, synthesizing the currently somewhat …

Grazing by domestic herbivores is the most widespread land use on the planet, and also a
major global change driver in grasslands. Yet, experimental evidence on the long-term …

Livestock have long been integral to food production systems, often not by choice but by
need. While our knowledge of livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation has …

Increasing plant diversity can increase ecosystem functioning, stability, and services in both
natural and managed grasslands, but the effects of herbivore diversity, and especially of …

Grazing exclusion using fences is a key policy being applied by the Chinese government to
rehabilitate degraded grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and elsewhere. However …

Grasslands are the predominant forage source for grazing animals and cover more of the
Earth's land than any other major vegetation type. Their values are not always recognised …

Understanding the relationships among ecosystem services is crucial for ecosystem-based
management (EBM). In urbanized areas, improving human well-being increasingly depends …

Grassland degradation has caused increasingly prominent conflict between ecological
environment conservation and socioeconomic development in the Qilian Mountains, China …

This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on
its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what …