University of California
Rangeland Ecosystem Services
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Forage is the food available for wildlife and livestock on a given landscape. Available forage helps to reduce the cost to bring livestock up to market weight. In California, over 18 million acres of rangeland are harvested by livestock.
References based on Location
California
- 2012 CRCC Rangeland Summit - Presentations
- 2012 Rangeland Science Symposium - Presentations
- Acreage Information Sources
- An Economic Analysis of the Benefits of Habitat Conservation on California Rangelands
- Biodiversity is critical to future health of California's ecology and economy
- California Rangelands: Annual Rangeland References
- Cars, Cows, and Checkerspot Butterflies
- Current Findings on Grazing Impacts
- Ecosystem Service-based State and Transition Models
- Fact Sheet No. 1: California Rangeland Water Quality Management Program
- Grazing research supports an alliance for working landscapes
- Long-Term Changes from Different Uses of Foothill Hardwood Rangelands
- Long-term grazing study in spring-fed wetlands reveals management tradeoffs
- Managing California’s grassland ecosystems for Athene cunicularia hypugaea (burrowing owls)
- Planned Herbivory in the Management of Wildfire Fuels
- Public Land Grazing in California: Untapped Conservation Potential for Private Lands?
- Rangelands West/Global Rangelands, Extension Rangelands, and the Range Science Information System: A Suite of New Web Resources
- Restoration through modern interpretations of yesterday’s actions
- SFREC research sustains rangeland and oak woodlands
- STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY NONPOINT SOURCE PROGRAM, California Rangeland Water Quality Management Plan Index
- Stubble height standards for Sierra Nevada meadows can be difficult to meet
- Sustainable Rangelands Ecosystem Goods & Services
- The Changing California: Forest and Range Assessment 2010
- The Importance of Federal Grazing Allotments to Central Sierran Oak Woodland Permittees: A First Approximation
- What's Nature Worth?
USA
- A Landscape Approach to Rangeland Conservation Practices
- Decoupled effects (positive to negative) of nutrient enrichment on ecosystem services
- Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience
- Livestock Can Help Rangelands Recover from Fires
- Rangeland Literature Synthesis
- Sustainable Ranch Management Assessment Guidebook
- The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect
World
- An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water and Food Security
- Biodiversity some-more critical for ecosystem services than thought
- Plants Can Benefit from Herbivory: Stimulatory Effects of Sheep Saliva on Growth of Leymus chinensis
- Promoting carbon sequestration and payment for ecosystem service schemes: The case for rangelands
- Review of evidence on drylands pastoral systems and climate change
Websites based on Location
California
- All Things Grass Fed
- CA Rangeland Conservation Coalition
- CA Rangeland Trust
- Grazing Management and Ecosystem Services
- LD Ford Rangeland Conservation Science
- SunOne Solutions - a credit company
- UCCE California Rangelands Research and Information Center
- Water Quality on US Forest Service Grazing Allotments
USA
- Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) administered by USDA NRCS
- Holistic Management International - HMI
- NRCS Ecological Site Description (ESD) System for Rangeland and Forestland Data
- Rangelands West
- Soil Carbon Coalition
- Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable - Colorado State Univ.
- The Landscape Toolbox
- The Quivira Coalition