▪ Abstract Managed grazing covers more than 25% of the global land surface and has a
larger geographic extent than any other form of land use. Grazing systems persist under …

Amongst many ongoing initiatives to preserve biodiversity, the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment again shows the importance to slow down the loss of biological diversity …

Desertification is a change in soil properties, vegetation or climate, which results in a
persistent loss of ecosystem services that are fundamental to sustaining life. Desertification …

Summary 1 Management of rangelands has long operated under the paradigm of
minimizing spatially discrete disturbances, often under the objective of reducing inherent …

Two independent models concerning the effects of grazing on vegetation have gained wide
acceptance in the last decade: Westoby et al.'s state‐and‐transition (S–T) model, and …

Summary 1 In some ecosystems there is a positive feedback between forage quality and
grazing intensity. This involves three components of plant tolerance to grazing: functional …

Three major problems are faced when mapping natural vegetation with mid-resolution
satellite images using conventional supervised classification techniques: defining the …

Savanna ecosystems, defined by the codominance of trees and grasses, cover one‐fifth of
the world's land surface and are of great socioeconomic and biological importance. Yet, the …

Summary 1 The widespread provision of livestock drinking water in previously dry Australian
rangelands has supported concomitant increases in cumulative grazing pressure. While the …

Large mammalian herbivores are well recognized to play important roles in regulating
woody cover and biomass in savannas, but the extent to which browsing ungulates are …