Implications of climate change for grassland in Europe: impacts, adaptations and mitigation options: a review

Hopkins, A.; Prado, A. del

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2494.2007.00575.x

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“…Such changes increase the costs of livestock production. The climate change is feared to have impacts on feed crops and grazing systems, for example, greater incidences of droughts can decrease fodder production and rise in temperate can change the species-mix in the pasture (Hopkins and Del Prado, 2007). Increase in the temperature changes the rangeland species distribution, composition, patterns and biome distribution (Hanson et al, 1993) increasing the need for feed supplements.…”

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Economics Of Climate Change For Smallholder Farmers In Nepal: A Review

Pant

2013

J. Agric. & Environ.

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Economics Of Climate Change For Smallholder Farmers In Nepal: A Review

Pant

2013

J. Agric. & Environ.

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“…Understanding the nature of the interactions between the water and carbon cycle is particularly important in grasslands for agricultural and other reasons. Grassland ecosystems account for a significant portion of the land surface, and climate change could have a significant impact on their ecology and functioning [10,11]. These ecosystems may have the potential for acting as a global carbon sink more than is normally realized [12].…”

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Multiscale Interactions betweenWater and Carbon Fluxes and Environmental Variables in A Central U.S. Grassland

Brunsell

Wilson

2013

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Abstract:The temporal interactions between water and carbon cycling and the controlling environmental variables are investigated using wavelets and information theory. We used 3.5 years of eddy covariance station observations from an abandoned agricultural field in the central U.S. Time-series of the entropy of water and carbon fluxes exhibit pronounced annual cycles, primarily explained by the modulation of the diurnal flux amplitude by other variables, such as the net radiation. Entropies of soil moisture and precipitation show almost no annual cycle, but the data were collected during above average precipitation years, which limits the role of moisture stress on the resultant fluxes. We also investigated the information contribution to resultant fluxes from selected environmental variables as a function of time-scale using relative entropy. The relative entropy of latent heat flux and ecosystem respiration show that the radiation terms contribute the most information to these fluxes at scales up to the diurnal scale. Vapor pressure deficit and air temperature contribute to the most information for the gross primary productivity and net ecosystem exchange at the daily time-scale. The relative entropy between the fluxes and soil moisture illustrates that soil moisture contributes information at approximately weekly time-scales, while the relative entropy with precipitation contributes information predominantly at the monthly time-scale. The use of information theory metrics is a relatively new technique for assessing biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and this study illustrates the utility of the approach for assessing the dominant time-scales of these interactions.

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“…Natural and seminatural grasslands are sources of biodiversity and provide important ecosystem services [1,2]. Improper grassland management often leads to decreasing diversity, threatens ecosystem health and the reliability of ecosystem services [3,4].…”

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Grazed Pannonian grassland beta-diversity changes due to C4 yellow bluestem

Szentes

Sutyinszki

Szabó³

et al. 2012

Open Life Sciences

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This study investigates how yellow bluestem affects biodiversity in a typical Pannonian grassland. Beta diversity (i.e. the finescale spatial variability of species compositions), was estimated by the realized number of species combinations sampled at various scales. Sampling was performed by a standard protocol. Presences of plant species were recorded along 52.2 m long belt transect of 1044 units of 0.05x0.05 m contiguous microquadrats. According to the results the massive presence of tested C4 grass significantly reduced species richness of the grassland. Beta diversity assessment revealed that 90% of species combinations were lost due to yellow bluestem invasion. Fine-scale spatial pattern analyses showed complete local extinctions of other species from microsites dominated by yellow bluestem. This local extinction is enhanced by the specific clonal architecture of this species and by the accumulation of litter. Other dominant grasses had no effect on fine scale diversity, i.e. they could coexist well with other elements of the local flora. This study presents currently developed microhabitat types, forecasts and also draws attention to the danger that climate warming will probably enhance the spread of this detrimental C4 species.

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Implications of climate change for grassland in Europe: impacts, adaptations and mitigation options: a review

Cited by 159 publications

References 53 publications

Economics Of Climate Change For Smallholder Farmers In Nepal: A Review

Economics Of Climate Change For Smallholder Farmers In Nepal: A Review

Multiscale Interactions betweenWater and Carbon Fluxes and Environmental Variables in A Central U.S. Grassland

Grazed Pannonian grassland beta-diversity changes due to C4 yellow bluestem

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