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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Las Brujas; INIA Tacuarembó.
Fecha corriente: | 16/05/2019
Fecha de la última actualización: | 19/03/2021
Autoria: | TISCORNIA, G.; JAURENA, M.; BAETHGEN, W.
Afiliación: | GUADALUPE TISCORNIA TOSAR, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; MARTIN ALEJANDRO JAURENA BARRIOS, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; WALTER E. BAETHGEN, Universidad de Columbia/ IRI (International Research Institute for Climate and Society).
Título: | Drivers, process, and consequences of native grassland degradation: insights from a literature review and a survey in Río de la Plata grasslands.
Año de publicación: | 2019
Fuente/Imprenta: | Agronomy, 2019, 9(5), 239. [OPEN ACCESS].
ISSN: | EISSN 2073-4395
DOI: | 10.3390/agronomy9050239
Idioma: | Inglés

Notas:

Article history: Received: 23 March 2019 / Revised: 3 May 2019 / Accepted: 5 May 2019 / Published: 10 May 2019.
This article belongs to the Special Issue Grassland Management for Sustainable Agroecosystems.

Contenido:

ABSTRACT.
Natural grasslands are being progressively degraded around the world due to human-induced action (e.g., overgrazing), but there is neither a widely accepted conceptual framework to approach degradation studies nor a clear definition of what ?grassland degradation? is. Most of the drivers, processes, and consequences related to grassland degradation are widespread and are usually separately quoted in the literature. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework with different conceptual categories, for monitoring grassland degradation, and a new definition based on current ones. We provide a conceptual update of grassland degradation based on a literature review and an expert survey, focused on the Río de la Plata grasslands (RPG). We identified ?drivers? as external forces or changes that cause degradation; ?processes? as measurable changes in grasslands conditions that can be evaluated using indicators; and ?consequences? as the impacts or results of the process of grassland degradation. We expect that this conceptual framework will contribute to monitoring programs, to support management decisions, to design conservation measures, and to communicate the importance of grasslands conservation and the different concepts involved. Particularly for RPG, we expect that this paper will contribute to promote sustainable management practices in this important and often neglected ecosystem.

Palabras-Clave: | BIOMASS; FORAGE; GRAZING; INDICATORS; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY.
Categoría del tema: | --

URL:

http://www.ainfo.inia.uy/digital/bitstream/item/12685/1/agronomy-09-00239.pdf
http://www.ainfo.inia.uy/digital/bitstream/item/12686/1/agronomy-09-00239-s001.pdf
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/5/239/htm
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/5/239/pdf

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