Short-term grazing exclusion from heavy livestock rangelands affects vegetation cover and soil properties in natural ecosystems of southeastern Iran

M Ebrahimi, H Khosravi, M Rigi - Ecological engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Grazing exclusion is an effective rangeland management practice used to achieve
sustainability of natural ecosystems worldwide. To clarify the effects of short-term grazing …

[PDF][PDF] An approach for rangeland suitability analysis to apiculture planning in Gharah Aghach region, Isfahan-Iran

F Amiri, ABM Shariff, S Arekhi - World Applied Sciences Journal, 2011 - academia.edu
The Irano-Touranian biogeography region is exposed to degradation because of
anthropogenic activities and overgrazing. One of the important indirect applications of this …

Effects of rangeland exclusion on plant cover and soil properties in a steppe rangeland of southeastern Iran

H Khosravi, M Ebrahimi, M Rigi - Arid Land Research and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The study was conducted in Taftan rangeland in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran, to study the
effects of grazing exclusion on reclamation of vegetation cover and soil properties. After a …

Influence of grazing intensity on richness, phylogenetic and functional dimensions of highly diverse mountainous grasslands from Mazandaran, Iran

Z Bahreini, Z Jafarian, SJ Alavi, MR Tatian, D Negreiros - Plant Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Recently, more studies have focused on predicting plant response to livestock grazing by
using plant functional traits as indicators to study species adaptation under grazing …

Identification of Suitable Land for Livestock Production Using GIS‐Based Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Remote Sensing in the Bale Lowlands, Ethiopia

A Balew, B Legese, D Kunbushu… - … Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rangeland resources of the Bale lowlands have been degraded due to climate change,
human factors, lack of sufficient environmental and rangeland policies, disaster mitigation …

[PDF][PDF] Rangeland suitability evaluation for livestock production using remote sensing and GIS techniques in dire district, southern Ethiopia

BK Terfa, KV Suryabhagavan - Glob. J. Sci. Front. Res. H Environ …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Abstract-Management of complex ecosystems such as
rangelands needs adequate knowledge to consider its capability for sustainable utilization …

Rangeland suitability guidelines for sheep grazing (Case study: mountainous rangelands of Imam Kandi Urmia)

J Motamedi, H Arzani… - Journal of RS and GIS for …, 2018 - girs.bushehr.iau.ir
Determining the suitability of rangeland using the constraints of the FAO method, due to the
multiplicity of factors and in some cases the need for laboratory operations and mapping, is …

Monitoring land suitability for mixed livestock grazing using Geographic Information System (GIS)

F Amiri, A Shariff, T Tabatabaie - Application of Geographic …, 2012 - books.google.com
Combining land and land use in a land evaluation procedure defines land suitability, which
is the fitness of a land unit for a land use type assessed by comparing land use requirements …

[PDF][PDF] Determining rangeland suitability for sheep grazing using GIS (Case study: Sadegh Abad watershed, Kermanshah province, Iran)

E Rostami, HR MEHRABI, M Farahpour - 2014 - sid.ir
Rangelands are mainly used for grazing the livestock in Iran, it is essential to specify grazing
suitability of rangelands in each region of country, so that it may improve the management …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of different livestock grazing intensities on plant cover, soil properties, and above and below ground C and N pools in arid ecosystems (Jiroft rangeland …

Z Moghbeli, M Ebrahimi… - Environmental Resources …, 2021 - academia.edu
This study was conducted in Jiroft rangeland, Kerman, Iran to assess the effects of different
livestock grazing intensities (low, moderate, heavy) on ecological factors, soil properties …