Two species of Ephedra: E. trifurca and E. torreyana inhabit shrub and grassland habitats in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. E. torreyana is limited to black grama grasslands where grasses are taller than the shrub. E...
financially supported by VLIRfunded project ‘Forest Rehabilitation through Natural Regeneration’;DAAD
In the Ethiopian highlands, communal grazing lands are one of the major land uses, and are source of livelihood for the rural people. Free and uncontrolled grazing in the communal grazing lands is the dominant grazing...
the financial support of Tigray Agricultural Research Institute and Humera Agricultural Research Center,northern Ethiopia
Exclosure is a method of rehabilitating degraded lands by protecting them from the interference of animals and from human encroachment, and is used to regenerate native vegetation as a way to reduce soil erosion, incr...
Introduction:Forests form a major component of the carbon(C)reserves in the world’s ecosystems.However,little is known on how management influences C stocks of woody vegetation,particularly in dry areas.We developed ...
The data collection of the study was supported by the Swedish International Development Authority(SIDA)under the Agroecology and Sustainable development project in Mekelle University;The write-up was funded by the steps towards sustainable forest management with the local communities in Tigray,Northern Ethiopia(ETH 13/0018)project funded by NORAD under the NORHED programme.
Introduction:Exclusion of grazing animals and tree plantations were among the methods used for the restoration of degraded lands in tropical semiarid areas.Exclosures can foster secondary forest succession by improvin...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40901049;31060060);the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(2009CB 421303);the 'Qing Lan' Talent Engineering Funds of Lanzhou Jiaotong University(QL-08-14A)
Horqin Sandy Land is a fragile, seriously desertified region located in Inner Mongolia of China. Over- grazing is one of the primary drivers of desertification in this region. We investigated whether the establishment...
The Bale Mountains of Ethiopia represent the world's largest continuous extent of afroalpine habitat. With a peak combined density of over 8000 individuals/km2, the endemic giant mole rat Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, ...