A global inventory of animal diversity measured in different grazing treatments

Barber-Cross, Tianna; Filazzola, Alessandro; Brown, Charlotte; Dettlaff, Margarete A; Batbaatar, Amgaa; Grenke, Jessica; Heida, Isaac Peetoom; Cahill, James

doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01326-1

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“…Grassland covers 54% of terrestrial land ( Barber-Cross et al, 2022 ) and occupies ca. 70% of the agricultural land ( Abdalla et al, 2018 ; Ding et al, 2021 ).…”

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Grazing lowers soil multifunctionality but boosts soil microbial network complexity and stability in a subtropical grassland of China

Ding

Tian

et al. 2023

Front. Microbiol.

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IntroductionLong-term grazing profoundly affects grassland ecosystems, whereas how the soil microbiome and multiple soil ecosystem functions alter in response to two-decades of grazing, especially how soil microbiome (diversity, composition, network complexity, and stability) forms soil multifunctionality is rarely addressed.MethodsWe used a long-term buffalo grazing grassland to measure the responses of soil physicochemical attributes, stoichiometry, enzyme activities, soil microbial niche width, structure, functions, and networks to grazing in a subtropical grassland of Guizhou Plateau, China.ResultsThe evidence from this work suggested that grazing elevated the soil hardness, available calcium content, and available magnesium content by 6.5, 1.9, and 1.9 times (p = 0.00015–0.0160) and acid phosphatase activity, bulk density, pH by 59, 8, and 0.5 unit (p = 0.0014–0.0370), but decreased the soil water content, available phosphorus content, and multifunctionality by 47, 73, and 9–21% (p = 0.0250–0.0460), respectively. Grazing intensified the soil microbial carbon limitation (+78%, p = 0.0260) as indicated by the increased investment in the soil β-glucosidase activity (+90%, p = 0.0120). Grazing enhanced the complexity and stability of the bacterial and fungal networks but reduced the bacterial Simpson diversity (p < 0.05). The bacterial diversity, network complexity, and stability had positive effects, while bacterial and fungal compositions had negative effects on multifunctionality.DiscussionsThis work is an original attempt to show that grazing lowered multifunctionality via the reduced bacterial diversity and shifted soil bacterial and fungal compositions rather than the enhanced bacterial and fungal network complexities and stability by grazing. Protecting the bacterial diversity from decreasing, optimizing the composition of bacteria and fungi, and enhancing the complexity and stability of bacterial network may be conducive to improving the soil multifunction of grazing grassland, on a subtropical grassland.

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“…Grassland covers 54% of terrestrial land ( Barber-Cross et al, 2022 ) and occupies ca. 70% of the agricultural land ( Abdalla et al, 2018 ; Ding et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Grazing lowers soil multifunctionality but boosts soil microbial network complexity and stability in a subtropical grassland of China

Ding

Tian

et al. 2023

Front. Microbiol.

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“…Grazing effects are species-specific (animal/plant) and vary with management types, bioclimatic regions and soil properties [80,81]. The interaction between climate and unsuitable farm management strategies can compromise the soil status and thereby promote flooding and erosion events [82,83].…”

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An Overview of Permanent Grassland Grazing Management Practices and the Impacts on Principal Soil Quality Indicators

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Grasslands are at risk of degradation due to unsustainable management practices and climate change. Here, we review the principal soil quality indicators (SQIs) to evaluate the sustainability of different grassland management practices globally. We discuss the importance of SQI assessment and the Soil Quality Minimum Dataset (MDS) specifically in the context of grasslands. We then review two potential solutions, the first of which is adopting grazing management, whereby sustainable grazing management plans (GMPs) offer great potential. The other solution is the development and adoption of novel grassland species, which may improve either drought resistance or infiltration rates, erosion and flooding. Sustainable grassland soil management can promote ecosystem service delivery and improve the resilience of the entire grassland ecosystem to anthropogenic change.

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“…As such, grazing timing, grazing density, time between grazing events, and livestock species are crucial considerations for the sustainable management of grasslands. Grazing effects are species specific (animal/plant) and vary with management types, bioclimatic regions and soil properties [49], [50]. The interaction between climate and unsuitable farm management strategies, can compromise the soil status and thereby, promote flooding and erosion events [51], [52].…”

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A Review of Permanent Grassland Grazing Management Practices and the Impacts on Principal Soil Quality Indicators

Milazzo¹,

Francksen²,

Abdalla³

et al. 2023

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Grasslands are at risk of degradation due to unsustainable management practices and climate change. Sustainable grassland soil management can promote ecosystem service delivery and improve the resilience of the entire grassland ecosystem to anthropogenic change. Here, we re-view the principal soil quality indicators (SQIs) and how they have been used to evaluate the sustainability of different grassland management practices globally. We then discuss sustainable grazing management practices, before reviewing some novel grassland species which may im-prove grassland resilience with relevance for grassland management in Europe and the UK. We also give an overview of current sustainable grassland management methods and their assessment at field scale. From this, we suggest that sustainable Grazing Management Plans (GMPs), together with the testing of drought-resistant grass species and appropriate SQIs monitoring, is key to increasing resilience of grassland ecosystems to anthropogenic change.

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A global inventory of animal diversity measured in different grazing treatments

Cited by 7 publications

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Grazing lowers soil multifunctionality but boosts soil microbial network complexity and stability in a subtropical grassland of China

Grazing lowers soil multifunctionality but boosts soil microbial network complexity and stability in a subtropical grassland of China

An Overview of Permanent Grassland Grazing Management Practices and the Impacts on Principal Soil Quality Indicators

A Review of Permanent Grassland Grazing Management Practices and the Impacts on Principal Soil Quality Indicators

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