Explore #rangeland and #pastoralism with our BioOne Vista research collection, featuring Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Weed Science, Weed Technology, Western North American Naturalist, @wildliferesearchj.bsky.social, and more.

Free to read through February 15: bio-one.co/4jRcJCQ

Roots and Resilience: Stories, Poems, and Musings by California Ranchers An interview with Editor Susan Marshall Edinger

Hi All! Please check out my new “Reaping” article, which is all about ranching: generational, Indigenous, and women-led.

Best of all, I reunite with my elementary school classmate Susan Marshall Edinger!

#reapingwhatshesows #rangeland #california #grazing
@melvillehouse.bsky.social

Explore #rangeland and #pastoralism with our BioOne Vista research collection, featuring @nwscience.bsky.social, @amornith.bsky.social, Rangeland Ecology & Management, Rangelands, Systematic and Applied Acarology, and more.

Free to read through February 15: bio-one.co/4jRcJCQ

Explore #rangeland and #pastoralism with our BioOne Vista research collection, featuring The Journal of Parasitology, Journal of Resources and Ecology, @torreybotanical.bsky.social, @mrdjournal.bsky.social, @naturalareas.bsky.social, and more.

Free to read through February 15: bio-one.co/4jRcJCQ

Explore #rangeland and #pastoralism research from Crop and Pasture Science @csiropublishing.bsky.social, Ecoscience, Environmental Entomology and Journal of Economic Entomology @entsocamerica.bsky.social, Invasive Plant Science and Management, and more. Free to read through 2/15: bio-one.co/4jRcJCQ

Explore #rangeland and #pastoralism with our BioOne Vista research collection. Discover studies from the African Journal of Wildlife Research, Ardea, @canjplantsci.bsky.social, @canjsoilsci.bsky.social, Caribbean Journal of Science, and more.

Free to read through February 15: bio-one.co/4jRcJCQ

Under beautiful blue skies - in Central Oregon - part of the Sisters Mountain range.

Part of Central Oregon's Sisters Mountain range. #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #FreshAir #WeThePeople #mountains #EastCoastKin #RangeLand

Autumnal view of a small piece of rangeland incorporating gentle hills and gulleys. The flats at the top are cleared and mown but the slopes are still naturally populated with brush. Grasses and warm biscuit coloured, sagebrush is pale grey-green-silver. It's almost an abstract composition.

Thomspson-Nicola area, British Columbia, Canada -
#rangeland #sagebrush #grass #landscape #photography

Work to empower and support pastoralist women advances the preservation of crucial traditional knowledge and pastoralists' practices and cultural traditions for future generations.

#IYRP2026 #IYRP #PastoralistWomen #Rangeland

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Veld fire management Erastus Ngaruka Rangeland productivity is affected by several factors, including rainfall, soil condition, fire, herbivory, and other ecological forces such as plant competition. In addition, human activities can have a significant effect on rangeland conditions. Ultimately, the adverse influence of these factors can disturb the normal ecological processes, leading to rangeland degradation. One of the recurrent factors that shape rangeland ecosystems is fire (commonly known as veld fires’ or ‘wildfires’), which can occur naturally or can be manmade. Many farmers have negative perceptions about veld fires due to their dangerous and destructive nature. However, natural veld fire events serve a critical ecological function. For example, burning moribund materials to allow regrowth or tillering, stimulating seed germination by cracking seed coats, and largely maintaining vegetation structures in terms of spacing and balance (e.g., controlling bush encroachment). On the other hand, artificial or man-made fires are either started for a purpose (prescribed fire) or out of negligence. Prescribed fires are planned for rangeland management purposes to mimic natural influences. These types of fires can also become uncontrolled and devastating if poorly planned and managed.  Veld fires damage farm infrastructure (e.g., fences, pipes) and the environment (habitats, soil, plants) and result in injuries and deaths in animals (livestock and wild animals) and humans as well. In addition, a fire burns the available forage materials, leaving animals with little or nothing to survive on. Generally, natural veld fires are caused by lightning strikes and mainly occur during the spring months or at the onset of the rainy season (September – November) when thunderstorm activities begin. Therefore, farmers should already prepare to avoid huge losses during this critical period. In some parts of Namibia, fire activities have already started, and most of these unplanned or accidental fires can be attributed to human activities, including charcoal production, campfires, cigarettes, vehicles, hunting and poaching activities, empty glass bottles, or glass pieces that are able to magnify the sun’s heat and ignite dry grass. The intensity of a veld fire is mainly influenced by the amount of fuel loads, such as dry grass or other moribund plant materials, such as dead wood. The more fuel there is, the greater the fire’s intensity and impact. Additionally, wind affects the direction, speed, and spatial scale of the fire. Fighting veld fires is a difficult and exhaustive exercise that can be costly and devastating. It is therefore important that farmers prepare well in advance by acquiring firefighting equipment and ensuring that it is accessible, ready, and functional. The farm roads and fire breaks should be well maintained, cleared and accessible in the event of firefighting. Most importantly, all persons must be well informed and trained in firefighting and lifesaving. Moreover, the neighbouring farmers and all relevant authorities should be informed. Thus, an effective communication channel should be established to ensure coordinated efforts. It is therefore important that a fire management plan is developed and adopted in the whole farm management plan under the risk management components. In addition, the plan should include aspects of fodder reserves for the animals if the forage resources are burnt. Veld fires occur annually, and farmers must continuously prepare, whether in communal or commercial farming areas. *Erastus Ngaruka is a technical advisor on rangeland and livestock at the Agricultural Bank of Namibia.

#VeldFireManagement #Wildfire #Ecology #Rangeland #SustainableFarming

Our paper is now published in the latest issue of @conbiology.bsky.social!

Effectiveness of protected areas in the #Caucasus Mountains in preventing #rangeland #degradation

@biogeoberlin.bsky.social
@kelewinska.bsky.social
@tkuemmerle.bsky.social

Short-term study fails to capture negative impacts of livestock intensification on wildlife | PNAS Short-term study fails to capture negative impacts of livestock intensification on wildlife

Decades of data show livestock intensification in the #MaasaiMara drives major wildlife declines - >70% drop in wild herbivores, #migration collapse & functional compression. See our analysis in PNAS:
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🐘🐄🐑🐐🦓🐄 #savanna #rangeland #edgeeffects #livestock #protectedareas

Howdy!

We invite you to join us for another ABS Hour on Wednesday, April 16, at 3 PM in WFES 119.

tamu.zoom.us/s/94385929786

We hope to see you there!

#TAMUECCB #rangeland #wildlife #fisheries #vegetation

CEHMM is hiring a Range Conservation Scientist in Milnesand, NM. Please share with your #rangeland network. www.cehmm.org/_files/ugd/b...

Howdy!

We invite you to join us for another ABS Hour on Wednesday, March 26, at 3 PM in WFES 119 or via Zoom.

tamu.zoom.us/j/94385929786

We hope to see you there!

#tamueccb #ecology #agrilife #rangeland #wildlife #fisheries #humanwildlife #psychology

Considering the diversity of #livestock systems improves assessments of #grazing pressure and tropical #rangeland #degradation – new paper out in Environmental Research Letters iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... led by @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social

@humboldt-foundation.de
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Considering the diversity of #livestock systems improves assessments of #grazing pressure and tropical #rangeland #degradation – new paper out in Environmental Research Letters (doi.org/10.1088/1748...), led by @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social - @humboldt-foundation.de @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Differential phenological responses of plant functional types to the temporal repackaging of precipitation in a semiarid grassland - Plant and Soil Aims Large portions of the western United States have witnessed extended dry intervals between rainfall events due to an intensified hydrological cycle triggered by global warming. Semiarid ecosystems...

Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#newpaper out in Ecological Indicators:
Overall & ecoregion accuracy assessment of the Rangeland Analysis Platform cover data using 17K+ field plots. We also explore accuracy in rangeland riparian & wetland areas. #rangeland

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Howdy!

Join us for another ECCB Friday Seminar!

🗓️Friday, February 21st
📍 WFES 411 or Zoom tamu.zoom.us/j/94373151128
🕛 12:00 - 1:00 PM

#TAMUECCB #seminar #ecology #economics #socialsciences #rangeland #sustainability #career

Howdy!

Join us for the next ABS Hour on February 12 at 3 PM in WFES 119 for a discussion on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Conservation Decisions. Dr. Benjamin Hoose will be leading the discussion.

We hope to see you there!

#tamueccb #ecology #agrilife #rangeland #wildlife #fisheries

Speaker Bio Danial Nayeri is pursuing a doctoral degree in rangeland, wildlife and fisheries management in Gerard Kyle’s lab. His research utilizes principles and theories of conservation psychology to better understand human-wildlife relationship with an aim to promote coexistence.

Howdy!

Join us for the first ABS Hour of the semester, January 29th, at 3 PM in WFES 119!

#tamueccb #ecology #doctoralstudents #agrilife #rangeland #wildlife #fisheries

“Sack lunch” for seedlings: Fall fertilization of rangeland shrub seedlings to improve outplanting success | US Forest Service Research and Development In the United States, more than 1,400 native plant nurseries produce more than a billion seedlings for reforestation and restoration projects every year. Many years of monitoring and research have sho...

Fall fertilization of #rangeland #shrub seedlings to improve outplanting success: research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/product...

We must prioritize rangeland conservation for planetary health and biodiversity (commentary) In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in awareness about the importance of rainforests to global ecosystems and economies. Meanwhile, another biome – one that covers more than half of t...

Prioritise #Rangeland #planetary #health news.mongabay.com/2024/12/we-m...

Published in Conservation Biology!

Effectiveness of protected areas in the #Caucasus Mountains in preventing #rangeland #degradation

Using greenness indicators in 52 PAs from 1988-2019 we showed that they’re ineffective in preventing degradation

OA:
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...