Reprint
Grassland Management for Sustainable Agroecosystems
Edited by
April 2020
252 pages
- ISBN978-3-03928-222-7 (Paperback)
- ISBN978-3-03928-223-4 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Grassland Management for Sustainable Agroecosystems that was published in
Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary
This book is a remarkable work that brings together the most recent international research on grassland management, covering a broad range of topics and geographical areas. The different contributions explore the complex relationships between landscape, climate features, and soil fertility with the support of observational data and modeling. Clearly, this is a wide and multifaceted area of research that opens up new prospects for the management of a biome, which should no longer be considered only as a feed resource for domestic herbivore farming, but also—and above all—as a source of ecosystem services to society and a contributor to the sustainability of agriculture. Textbooks like this positively demonstrate the importance and significance of how grassland science, when viewed in this way, can make tangible the progress in understanding the complexity of grassland management and its current and future challenges.
Format
- Paperback
License
© 2020 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
biomass; fertilization; grazing; burning; restoration; soil respiration; soil volumetric water content; stable carbon isotopes; grassland; management practices; grassland; eddy covariance; carbon cycling; grazing; mowing; CenW model; Poultry manure; phosphate rock; ryegrass; plant biomass; phosphorus uptake; phosphorus availability; nitrogen mineralization; soil organic carbon; soil-test biological activity; stocking method; total soil nitrogen; tallgrass prairie; grazing management; climate; enhanced vegetation index (EVI); gross primary production (GPP); forage management; above ground biomass; standardized precipitation and evaporation index (SPEI); tallgrass prairie landscape; grazing management; classification; shrub encroachment; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); productivity; forage; biomass; species diversity; indicators; grazing; permanent grassland; fresh forage; barn-dried hay; chemical composition; digestibility; voluntary intake; exchange membranes; range management; soil macronutrients; exchange membranes; grazing management; soil macronutrients; drinking sources; GIS; grazing behavior; pastures; spatial distribution; stocking rate; grassland; rural abandonment; goats; soil nutrients; fire risk; long-term agroecosystem research network; LTAR; rotational grazing; continuous and rotational grazing; phosphorous availability and uptake; potential management; site use intensity; soil macronutrient responses and distributions; soil organic carbon and nitrogen; soil respiration