Bison outperform cattle at restoring their home on the range

Harms, Kyle E.

doi:10.1073/pnas.2213632119

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“…This resulted in a higher proportion of dominant forage not being consumed, further increasing community species dominance again. Here, "community species" dominance refers to the relative contribution of a single species to ANPP (Harms, 2022). Furthermore, Ren et al (2018) reported the results of a grazing study in natural grasslands, wherein there was no correlation between species asynchrony and temporal stability in continuous grazing systems.…”

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Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing

Zhao,

Suo,

Alemu

et al. 2024

Ecological Applications

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A substantial body of empirical evidence suggests that anthropogenic disturbance can affect the structure and function of grassland ecosystems. Despite this, few studies have elucidated the mechanisms through which grazing and mowing, the two most widespread land management practices, affect the stability of natural grassland communities. In this study, we draw upon 9 years of field data from natural grasslands in northern China to investigate the effects of gazing and mowing on community stability, specifically focusing on community aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) and dominance, which are two major biodiversity mechanisms known to characterize community fluctuations. We found that both grazing and mowing reduced ANPP in comparison to areas enclosed by fencing. Grazing reduced community stability by increasing the likelihood of single‐species dominance and decreasing the relative proportion of nondominant species. In contrast, mowing reduced the productivity of the dominant species but increased the productivity of nondominant species. As a consequence, mowing improved the overall community stability by increasing the stability of nondominant species. Our study provides novel insight into understanding of the relationship between community species fluctuation‐stability, with implications for ecological research and ecosystem management in natural grasslands.

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Section: Grazing Reduced Community Stability By Increasing Species Do...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing

Zhao,

Suo,

Alemu

et al. 2024

Ecological Applications

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The role of governance in rewilding the United States to stem the biodiversity crisis

Carlson,

Vucetich,

Elbroch

et al. 2023

BioScience

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A critical but underattended feature of the biodiversity crisis is the contraction of geographic range experienced by most studied terrestrial vertebrates. In the United States, the primary policy tool for mitigating the biodiversity crisis is a federal law, the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For the past two decades, the federal agencies that administer the ESA have interpreted the act in a manner that precludes treating this geographic element of the crisis. Therefore, the burden of mitigating the biodiversity crisis largely falls on wildlife agencies within state government, which are obligated to operate on behalf of the interests of their constituents. We present survey research indicating that most constituents expect state agencies to prioritize species restoration over other activities, including hunting. This prioritization holds even among self-identified hunters, which is significant because state agencies often take the provisioning of hunting opportunity as their top priority. By prioritizing rewilding efforts that restore native species throughout portions of their historic range, state agencies could unify hunting and nonhunting constituents while simultaneously stemming the biodiversity crisis.

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Bison outperform cattle at restoring their home on the range

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing

Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing

The role of governance in rewilding the United States to stem the biodiversity crisis

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