Sentences with phrase «degraded grasslands»

Some castigated the Tompkins for taking land out of production — logging and sheep and cattle ranching — and eliminating the jobs those industries produced in favor of restoring what the Tompkins considered degraded grasslands and forests.

The solution was relegated to degraded grasslands, where it was the sixth (and lowest) priority, as Drawdown rates food production and ecological restoration as higher priorities than energy.

This practice restores degraded grasslands by using livestock as a proxy for the wild herds that the great plains and savannas of the world evolved with.

It seems that these locusts are well adapted to degraded grasslands, where sheep have eaten most of the high - quality plants.

As they report in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters, since 1950 the baseline stream flow — the amount coming from groundwater, not over the surface from rainfall — has doubled in areas where the trees have replaced the formerly degraded grasslands.

Preventing the clearing of forest area for perennial bioenergy cropping was also taken as one reason for the aggressive adoption of this solution in the degraded grassland area.

As this solution is implemented on degraded grassland, net profit per hectare of the conventional practice is not modeled.

Not exact matches

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

But prairie - reserve managers shouldn't move too quickly, as bison tend to range more widely than cattle, and any grazing «can be very bad for grasslands» that are already degraded, Collins says.

60 %: grasslands degraded due to overgrazing by livestock, invasion by alien species, or conversion to agriculture, resulting in a rapid decline of native flora and fauna

«The degraded watershed has been largely deforested and replaced with extensive agricultural and grasslands over the last half century,» says David Wilson, the lead researcher.

He now believes — and his work so far shows — that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.»

To MARodger, # 127: This here ranch we're gonna transform is roughly 12 billion acres, the extent of worldwide grasslands mostly degraded or desertified.

They begin by noting that there are 1.86 billion hectares of degraded land in the world — land that was once forestland, cropland, or grassland — and that half of this, or 930 million hectares, has a decent chance of being profitably reclaimed.

The brief argues that millions of hectares of grassland and degraded forest could be viable sites for plantation development and assisted natural regeneration.

What this shows is that the majority of oil palm plantations were developed on degraded lands, meaning forests converted to ferns, grasslands and scrubs by drought and recurrent burning, mainly during El Nino years,» Gaveau said in a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

The plan was to expand forest cover to an additional 5 million hectares of land and improve the quality of forests on another 5 million hectares, including degraded forests, grasslands and wetlands, doubling existing forest cover from 10 million hectares.

As a result, half of the world's grasslands are degraded.

On the other hand, planting biofuels on degraded Imperata grasslands instead of tropical rain forests would lead to a net removal of carbon in 10 years, the authors found.