Overhunting of mammals may negatively affect plant populations though indirect impacts on mammal-plant interactions such as herbivory. In this paper, we examined how hunting of terrestrial mammals impacts the survival...
supported financially by the the Sekota Dry Land Agricultural Research Center/Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute(ARARI)。
In Ethiopia,among many restoration efforts to reverse deforestation and land degradation,area exclosure is one of the most common practices to restore secondary forests with assisted natural regeneration.The present s...
Herbaceous species contribute to the largest proportion of the fodder.Despite the profound benefits obtained,anthropogenic disturbances are hindering its development.On the other hand,to ensure the sustainability of h...
Isfahan University of Technology for its financial support and laboratory facilities
This study aimed to identify indicator species and explore the most important environmental and management variables contributing to vegetation distribution in a hilly upper dam landscape in Zagros Mountain chain, Ira...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31570478).
Aims The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has a mean altitude exceeding 4000 m and covers about 2.5 million km2.More than 60%of this area is alpine grassland.Exclosures have been widely used in this region to study the sustain...
Background:Despite the wide use of indigenous browse plant species,there is almost no information on the rehabilitation of indigenous browse species following area exclosure(AE)established on communal grazing lands(CG...
The first author acknowledges the financial support by Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia;Commission of Environment,Forest and Climate change;Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute.
Assessment of ecological fitness of woody species across land use is critical issues in degraded land restoration.However,little is known about AGBC stored capacity,important value and distribution index of woody spec...
Land rehabilitation by area exclosure was the fastest and moderate approach of recovering degraded sites.However,the effect of exclosure on woody species parameters in Jabitehnan district,north-western Ethiopia has no...
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:An area exclosure is the practice of land management that involves the exclusion of livestock and humans from openly accessing an area that is characterized by severe degradation.Area exclosures have been...