Contributing to the Mitigation of Climate Change Using Rangeland Management

Steiguer, J. E. de; Brown, Joel R.; Thorpe, Jim

doi:10.2111/1551-501x(2008)30[7:cttmoc]2.0.co;2

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“…A few states, New Mexico being one, joined the CCX, allowing holders of state grazing leases to enroll these lands. 8 In New Mexico, the revenue was shared, with two-thirds going to the leaseholder and one-third to the state. 9 Sally Trigg estimates that it took approximately seven full days of various people's time (more than most other ranchers in our study reported) to gather, update, and double-check all the required information for the CCX application and to negotiate the terms of their contract with NCOC.…”

Section: Soil Carbon Sequestration Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Profiting From the Sale of Carbon Offsets: A Case Study of the Trigg Ranch

Gosnell¹,

Robinson-Maness²,

Charnley³

2011

Rangelands

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Section: Soil Carbon Sequestration Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Profiting From the Sale of Carbon Offsets: A Case Study of the Trigg Ranch

Gosnell¹,

Robinson-Maness²,

Charnley³

2011

Rangelands

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“…Maintaining and/or increasing rangeland carbon stock is, therefore, heavily dependent on a range of localized factors including land-use history, vegetation cover, grazing management practices, intensity, and soil properties (e.g., clay content, amorphous Fe and Al oxides, etc.) [2,18,19]. African rangelands' capacity to sequester carbon under different management practices varies from 0.23 to 14.33 t C ha -1 [20].…”

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Carbon Stock and Change Rate under Different Grazing Management Practices in Semiarid Pastoral Ecosystem of Eastern Ethiopia

Gebremedhn

Kelkay

Tesfay

et al. 2022

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Grazing management strategies tend to have different effects on rangeland plant production. Changes in grazing management can, therefore, affect the carbon stock potential of rangelands. Despite rangeland ecosystems being important global sinks for carbon, we know relatively little about the effect of traditional grazing management practices on their potential to store carbon. In this study, we evaluated the carbon stock and change rate of rangelands using three traditional grazing management practices in the semiarid pastoral ecosystem of eastern Ethiopia. By comparing data on vegetation and soil carbon stocks, we found that there was a strong significant difference (p < 0.001) between these different management practices. In particular, the establishment of enclosures was associated with an annual increase in carbon stocks of soil (3%) and woody (11.9%) and herbaceous (57.6%) biomass, when compared to communal open lands. Both enclosure and browsing management practices were found to have the highest levels of soil organic carbon stocks, differing only in terms of the amount of woody and herbaceous biomass. Thus, modest changes in traditional grazing management practices can play an important role in carbon storage and sequestration. Further research is required on a wider range of traditional pastoral management practices across space and time, as understanding these processes is key to combating global climate change.

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