“…More recently, some European countries have identified grassland as an important source of delivery of ecosystem services such as biodiversity, protection of soils against erosion, sequestering carbon and preserving the value of rural landscapes for wider society (Bernués et al ., 2011; Isselstein and Kayser, 2014). Within Europe, Ireland has a unique focus on grazing (O'Donovan et al ., 2021), which is not the case in other European countries, where grazing is under threat (Schils et al ., 2018; van den Pol-van Dasselaar et al ., 2020). The management of grasslands in a rotational grazing management system can contribute to ruminant feed resources, conservation of biodiversity and carbon sequestration (Conant et al ., 2017; Enri et al ., 2017; Klumpp and Fornara, 2018).…”