Ruminants including domestic livestock, have been accused of causing damaging impacts
on the global environment and human well-being. However, with appropriate management …

Maintaining or enhancing the productive capacity and resilience of rangeland ecosystems is
critical for the continued support of people who depend on them for their livelihoods …

When I was an undergraduate in Oxford, we were taught economics almost as though it
were a natural science. The subject matter of economics might be different from physics, but …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

To assess whether adaptive management using multi-paddock grazing is superior to
continuous grazing regarding conservation and restoration of resources we evaluated the …

Extensive livestock production in southern South America occupies~ 0.5 M km2 in central-
eastern Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil. These systems have been sustained for …

Grazing is a fundamental process affecting grassland ecosystem dynamics and functioning.
Its behavioral components comprise how animals search for feed, and gather and process …

Precision livestock management has become a new field of study as the result of recent
advancements in real-time global positioning system (GPS) tracking, accelerometer and …

Rotational grazing systems (RGS) are often implemented to alleviate undesirable selective
grazing by livestock. At both fine and coarse scales, livestock selectively graze individual …

Whether foraging on pastures or rangelands, herbivores encounter plant species that differ
in their concentrations of nutrients. They also all contain various secondary compounds that …