Invasive Plant Control by Livestock: From Targeted Eradication to Ecosystem Restoration

Kleppel, Gary S.; Girard, C; Caggiano, Sophia; LaBarge, Erin

doi:10.3368/er.29.3.209

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“…A rotational cycle through a subdivided pasture system, or multi-paddock system, should require at least 30 days, but rotational cycles of 60 to >100 days are not uncommon (Gerrish, 2004). Rotational cycles can be adjusted to accomplish ancillary goals, such as invasive plant management, or to respond to changing vegetation, weather patterns (e.g., drought) or other variables (see Kleppel et al, 2011;Girard Cartier and Kleppel, 2015;Bishopp, 2020). Several workers have described these methods in detail, using such terms as holistic planned grazing, managementintensive grazing and intensive rotational grazing (Savory, 1983;Butterworth, 1999, 2016;Gerrish, 2004;Flack, 2016;Salatin, 2019).…”

Section: Regenerative Agriculture and Multi-paddock Grazingmentioning

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Do Differences in Livestock Management Practices Influence Environmental Impacts?

Kleppel

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Herbivore-carnivore interactions are fundamental to grassland ecosystem functionality and to the human cultures that have long depended on these ecosystems for their nutrition. However, a large literature has developed during the past century indicating that animal agriculture is responsible for numerous negative environmental impacts. In this paper, I review literature on some of the environmental impacts of two different livestock management approaches, industrial-conventional (IC) management and regenerative-multi-paddock (RM) management. I consider the null hypothesis that the environmental impacts of ruminant livestock production are independent of the approach used to manage animals and grazing lands. It evident in the literature that managed grazing ecosystems are complex, and for certain system attributes, such as forage quality and plant community structure, the better management system is difficult to discern. In other areas definitive differences in impacts appear clearly management dependent. For instance, the soils of RM grasslands exhibit higher microbial biomass and diversity, and higher fungal: bacterial ratios than IC soils. Several impacts associated with livestock production appear to have less to do with grazing, per se, and more to do with support factors, such as feed production and manure management. The compilation of data from numerous sources suggests that RM management may reduce blue withdrawals and GHG emissions by >50%, relative to IC management. Accumulating data also suggest that a significant portion of anthropogenic CO 2-eq emissions can be removed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil by applying RM management practices. Finally, it is suggested that while research design may affect the outcomes of some studies, the quality and quantity of the science may not resolve many discrepancies in the data. It is suggested that the viability and sustainability of animal agriculture may depend upon broadening the goals of practitioners to include both food production and the restoration and protection of agricultural ecosystem services.

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Section: Regenerative Agriculture and Multi-paddock Grazingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Differences in Livestock Management Practices Influence Environmental Impacts?

Kleppel

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Microbial community structure in pasture and hayfield soils of the Helderberg region of New York State: a comparison of management strategies

Kleppel

2019

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Grazing and the Coupling of Biodiversity in Vascular Plant and Soil Microbial Communities

Girard-Cartier

Kleppel

2017

Northeastern Naturalist

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Invasive Plant Control by Livestock: From Targeted Eradication to Ecosystem Restoration

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Do Differences in Livestock Management Practices Influence Environmental Impacts?

Do Differences in Livestock Management Practices Influence Environmental Impacts?

Microbial community structure in pasture and hayfield soils of the Helderberg region of New York State: a comparison of management strategies

Grazing and the Coupling of Biodiversity in Vascular Plant and Soil Microbial Communities

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