Rangeland biodiversity is a multidimensional spectacle that includes the diversity of organisms, genetic differences among them and the communities, ecosystems, and landscape patterns. The variety of biodiversity life and ...

Rangelands represent a potential resource with a high socio-economic value. This value remains unmonetarized and therefore, not taken into account in public policies, which does not reflect the real value of this Ecosystem ...

Fire causes extensive damage to rangelands' ecosystems in arid and semi-arid regions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of rangeland fire on vegetation and forage production in mountainous rangelands ...

The study was conducted in Shinile district of eastern Ethiopia to evaluate soil carbon stock potentials under three indigenous rangeland management practices (communal grazing land, prescribed fire and grazing enclosure) ...

About 9% (349000 ha) of Khuzestan plain is the source of dust and it has seven dust hot spots. In this research, we investigated vegetation types, the floristic composition, life-form spectrum, and the phytogeography of ...

Aboveground Net Primary Production (ANPP) is one of the most important characteristics of rangeland ecosystems that is involved in important issues such as carbon balance. The aim of this study was to model the ANPP of ...

Economic, social, and ecological factors in rangelands affect range management. By integrating and studying these factors, a more appropriate method can be applied to assess the sustainability of rangelands. In the present ...

Identification of habitats and suitable environmental conditions for the presence of various animal and plant species is one of the key issues in ecology and environment modeling. In Iran, Gymnocarpus decander species is ...

This study was aimed to investigate the changes in surface and vegetation cover of the Sirjan Salt Playa (SSP) located in Kerman, Iran using Remote Sensing (RS) data. The ASTER data from 2002, 2008, and 2013 were used as ...

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