Grassland productivity and ecosystem services /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Grassland ecology.; Grasslands.; Rangelands.; Plant Production.; Soil Biology.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Grasslands and Rangelands.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Biological Resources (General); Animal production.; Biodiversity.; Biogeochemistry.; Ecosystem services.; Ecosystems.; Environmental impact.; Food security.; Grassland management.; Grassland soils.; Herbivores.; Human activity.; Land use.; Literature reviews.; Natural grasslands.; Productivity.; Soil types.; Sustainability.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 28 chapters with emphasis on the interactive nature of the relationships between the soil, plant, animal and environmental components of grassland systems, both natural and managed. It analyses the present knowledge and the future trends of research for combining the classical vie...

Table of Contents:

• Food security and environmental impacts / Gilles Lemaire, John Hodgson and Abad Chabbi
• Primary production of grasslands, herbage accumulation and use, and impacts of climate change / Anthony Parsons, Jacqueline Rowarth, John Thornley and Paul Newton
• Nutritional constraints for grazing animals and the importance of selective grazing behavior / Dennis P. Poppi
• The influence of vegetation characteristics on foraging strategy and ingestive behavior / Sophie Prache and Rémy Delagarde
• Variability, heterogeneity, diversity and productivity in grazing systems / Andrew W. Illius, Hervé Fritz and John M. Fryxell
• Importance of scale in the management of grassland resources / John G. McIvor
• Livestock production styles and managing grassland ecosystems / David R. Kemp and David L. Michlak
• Carbon storage and organic matter dynamics in grassland soils / Cornelia Rumpel
• Managing C and N in grassland systems : the adaptive cycle theory perspective / Roland Bol, Robert M. Dunn and Emma S. Pilgrim
• Managing mineral N leaching in grassland systems / Stewart F. Ledgard, J. Luo and R.M. Monagham
• Greenhouse gas emissions from European grasslands and mitigation options / Nina Buchmann
• Role and impacts of legumes in grasslands for high productivity and N gain from symbiotic N2 fixation / Andreas Lüscher, Jean-François Soussana and Olivier Huguenin-Elie
• Efficiency of phosphorus cycling in different grassland systems / Richard W. McDowell and Peter J.A. Kleinman
• Predicting biodiversity dynamics of grasslands under global changes : the role of long-term manipulations of climate / Andrew P. Askew, Jason D. Fridley and J. Philip Grime
• Interactions between grassland management and species diversity / Bertrand Dumont and Jerry R.B. Tallowin
• Assessing the functional role of plant diversity in grasslands : a trait-based approach / Eric Garnier and Marie-Laure Navas
• Exploiting genotypic and phenotypic plant diversity in grasslands / Mike Humphreys, Athole Marshall, Rosemary Collins and Michael Abberton
• Soil microbial diversity in grasslands and its importance for grassland functioning and services / Xavier Le Roux, Sylvie Recous and Eléonore Attard
• Soil fauna diversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands / Thibaud Decaëns and Patrick Lavelle
• The role of grasslands in intensive animal production in north-west Europe : conditions for a more sustainable farming system / Jean-Louis Peyraud
• Management of grazing systems in New Zealand and environmental impacts / M. Greg Lambert and V.O. Snow
• Rangeland management for sustainable conservation of natural resources / Craig D. Morris
• Opportunities and challenges for integrating North American crop and livestock systems / Alan J. Franzluebbers, R. Mark Sulc and Michael P. Russelle
• Integration of grasslands within crop systems in South America / Paulo C. de Faccio Carvalho and Anibal de Moraes
• Temperate grasslands in catchment systems : the role of scale, connectivity and thresholds in the provision and regulation of water quality and quantity / Christopher J.A. McLeod and Robert C. Ferrier
• Integration of grasslands with forest at the landscape level : topical issues and challenges attached to land management in agro-silvo-pastoral landscapes / Gérard Balent and Annick Gibon
• The role of grassland areas within arable cropping systems for the conservation of biodiversity at the regional level / Vincent Bretagnolle, Bertrand Gauffre, Helmut Meiss and Isabelle Badenhausser
• Interactions between cereal cropping systems and pastoral areas as the basis for a sustainable agriculture development in Mediterranean countries / Aïssa Abdelguerfi and Tayeb Ameziane El Hassani
• A way for developing integrated system at landscape level in tropical areas / René Poccard-Chapuis and Philippe Lecomte.