Swift foxes are among the many species that rely on healthy grassland ecosystems. Image: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute From the savannas of Sub-Saharan ...

In Mongolia, livestock products, including live animals, milk, meat, wool and hides, account for one-third of that country's gross domestic product. In Africa much of the livestock is used to provide ...

Decomposers and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) both determine plant nutrition; however, little is known about their interactive effects on plant communities. We set up a greenhouse experiment to ...

Over the years, the grasslands have been affected by the abandonment of Indigenous practices and the encroachment of woody ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For 600 million years, life has been responding to our changing world. Virtually every conceivable environment in ...

Since the first Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, grasslands have sustained humanity and thousands of other species. But today, those grasslands are shifting beneath our feet.

GELATIN, casein and occasionally albumen are used for isolation and counting of proteolytic soil organisms. Among the principal substrates for such organisms in grassland soils will be the dead ...

By cutting hay a few weeks later, Shenandoah Valley farmers could save both money and birds. A new conservation program is paying producers to delay mowing and grazing so threatened ...