Restoration of Degraded Grasslands and Sustainable Grazing
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2023) | Viewed by 36114
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grazing ecology; restoration and management of degraded grasslands; pastoral economics and policy; grassland ecological protection and restoration; grassland management
Interests: nitrogen and phosphorus acquisition; 15N or 13C labelling; GHG emission; ecosystem service; carbon sequestration
Interests: biodiversity pattern and maintenance mechanism; relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function; plant soil microbial interaction; habitat fragmentation and ecological effects; grassland sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Grassland is an important terrestrial ecosystem, accounting for about a quarter of the total land area. More and more people realize that it has irreplaceable ecological function besides production function. However, due to the increase in population and living demands in grassland areas, or the excessive pursuit of economic benefits by some people, the problem of overloading grazing is common in some countries or regions. The population–land–pasture–livestock system is severely unbalanced, leading to grassland degradation. In addition, global climate change, especially the warming and drying in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, has intensified the speed of grassland degradation and the difficulty of ecological restoration. Therefore, in view of the current large-scale degradation of grassland, clarifying the driving mechanism of grassland degradation and promoting the ecological restoration of degraded grassland act as the key bases for the sustainable development of grassland ecological function and sustainable grazing utilization, which attracts much attention and expectation. This issue seeks contributions around the topic of Restoration of Degraded Grasslands for Sustainable Grazing, including, but not limited to, grassland soil health, grassland biodiversity conservation, grassland ecological processes and functions, livestock-plant and soil interactions, grassland degradation mechanisms, grassland restoration mechanisms and technologies, the impacts of climate change, grassland evaluation and application of advanced technologies, sustainable grazing management, and grassland conservation and restoration policies. Original research articles and reviews are accepted.
Dr. Yong Ding
Prof. Dr. Yuqiang Tian
Prof. Dr. Qing Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- grassland degradation mechanisms
- grassland restoration mechanisms
- sustainable grazing management
- soil-grass-livestock interaction
- grassland biodiversity conservation
- grassland soil health
- grassland assessment and application of advanced technologies
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