We explored the net effects of grazing on soil C and N pools in a Patagonian shrub-grass steppe (temperate South America). Net effects result from the combination of direct impacts of grazing on biogeochemical characteristics of microsites with indirect effects on relative cover of vegetated and unvegetated microsites. Within five independent areas, we sampled surface soils in sites subjected to three grazing intensities: (1) ungrazed sites inside grazing exclosures, (2) moderately grazed sites adjacent to them, and (3) intensely grazed sites within the same paddock. Grazing significantly reduced soil C and N pools, although this pattern was clearest in intensely grazed sites. This net effect was due to the combination of a direct reduction...
Changes in land use often increase the provisioning ecosystem services at the cost of decreasing the...
In the Patagonian steppe, grazing may or may not reduce soil water availability: it may increase eva...
The objective of this study was to estimate the size and chemical quality of the total organic C sto...
We evaluated the effects of grazing on C and N belowground pools by comparing 15 grazing-exclosure p...
The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of grazing disturbance on the amount and the s...
Grazing modifies the structure and function of ecosystems, affecting soil organic carbon (SOC) stora...
Fire and grazing can modulate feedbacks between pools of carbon and nitrogen of plant and soil, alte...
Wet meadows are seasonally saturated wetlands that can develop in arid and semi-arid areas. In the s...
Soilis the largest organic C (SOC) pool in the biosphere. The size ofthis pool depends on the primar...
Grazers exert important effects on the plant-soil system influencing the structure and functioning o...
Cattle exclusion induced dramatic changes in the plant community and modifications in nutrient cycli...
Selective sheep grazing in arid rangelands induces a decrease in total cover and grass cover and an ...
Stocking rate adjustment in grazing management is recommended as a management tool to sustain produc...
Wet meadows are important ecosystems for forage production and as carbon reservoirs in semi-arid are...
Selective sheep grazing in the Patagonian Monte induces the reduction of total and perennial grass c...
Changes in land use often increase the provisioning ecosystem services at the cost of decreasing the...
In the Patagonian steppe, grazing may or may not reduce soil water availability: it may increase eva...
The objective of this study was to estimate the size and chemical quality of the total organic C sto...
We evaluated the effects of grazing on C and N belowground pools by comparing 15 grazing-exclosure p...
The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of grazing disturbance on the amount and the s...
Grazing modifies the structure and function of ecosystems, affecting soil organic carbon (SOC) stora...
Fire and grazing can modulate feedbacks between pools of carbon and nitrogen of plant and soil, alte...
Wet meadows are seasonally saturated wetlands that can develop in arid and semi-arid areas. In the s...
Soilis the largest organic C (SOC) pool in the biosphere. The size ofthis pool depends on the primar...
Grazers exert important effects on the plant-soil system influencing the structure and functioning o...
Cattle exclusion induced dramatic changes in the plant community and modifications in nutrient cycli...
Selective sheep grazing in arid rangelands induces a decrease in total cover and grass cover and an ...
Stocking rate adjustment in grazing management is recommended as a management tool to sustain produc...
Wet meadows are important ecosystems for forage production and as carbon reservoirs in semi-arid are...
Selective sheep grazing in the Patagonian Monte induces the reduction of total and perennial grass c...
Changes in land use often increase the provisioning ecosystem services at the cost of decreasing the...
In the Patagonian steppe, grazing may or may not reduce soil water availability: it may increase eva...
The objective of this study was to estimate the size and chemical quality of the total organic C sto...