Grassland productivity and ecosystem services
By: edited by: Gilles Lemaire, John Hodgson, Abad Chabbi
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845938093
Subjects: Grasslands; Grassland ecology; Rangelands
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food security and environmental impacts / Gilles Lemaire, John Hodgson, Abad Chabbi; title: Primary production of grasslands, herbage accumulation and use, and impacts of climate change / Anthony Parsons ... [et al.]; title: Nutritional constraints for grazing animals and the importance of selective grazing behavior / Dennis P. POPPI; title: The influence of vegetation characteristics on foraging strategies and ingestive behavior / Sophie Prache, Remy Delagarde; title: Diversity, productivity and stability in grazing systems / Andrew Illius, Hervé Fritz, John Fryxell; title: Importance of scale in the management of grassland resources / John G. Mc Ivor; title: Livestock production styles and managing grassland ecosystems / David R. Kemp, David L. Michlak; title: Carbon storage and organic matter dynamics in grassland soil / Cornelia Rumpel; title: Managing C and N in grassland systems / Roland Bol, Robert M. Dunn, Emma S. Pilgrim; title: Managing mineral N leaching in grassland systems / Stewart F. Ledgard, J. Luo, R.M. Monagham; title: Greenhouse gas emission from grassland area and mitigation / Nina Buchman; title: Role and impacts of legumes in grasslands for high productivity and N gain from symbiotic N2 fixation / Andreas Lüscher, Jean-Francois Soussana, Olivier Huguenin-ElIe; title: Efficiency of phosphorus cycling in different grassland systems / Richard W. McDowell, Peter J.A. Kleinman; title: Predicting biodiversity dynamics of grasslands under global changes / Andrew P. Askew, Jason D. Fridley, J. Philip Grime; title: Interactions between grassland management and species diversity / Bertrand Dumont, Jerry R.B. Tallowin; title: Assessing the functional role of plant diversity in grasslands / Eric Garnier, Marie-Laure Navas; title: Exploiting genotypic and phenotypic plant diversity in grasslands / Mike Humphreys ... [et al.]; title: Microbial diversity of grasslands, its functional role / Xavier Leroux, Sylvie Recous, Eleonore Attard; title: Soil fauna diversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands / Thibaud Decaens, Patrick Lavelle; title: Role of grasslands in intensive animal production in north-west Europe / Jean-Louis Peyraud; title: Management of grazing systems in New Zealand and environmental impacts / M. Greg. Lambert, V.O. Snow; title: Rangeland management for sustainable conservation of natural resources / Craig D. Morris; title: Opportunities and challenges for integrating North American crop and livestock systems / Alan J. Franzluebbers, R. Mark Sulc, Michaele P. Russelle; title: Integration of grasslands within arable crop systems in South America / Paulo C.F. de Carvalho, Anibal de Moraes; title: Temperate grasslands in catchment systems / Christopher J.A. McLeod, Robert C. Ferrier; title: Integration of grasslands with forests at regional level / Gérard Balent, Annick Gibbon; title: Role of grasslands area within arable cropping systems for conservation or enhancing biodiversity at regional level / Vincent Bretagnolle, Bertrand Gauffre, Isabelle Badenhausser; title: Interactions between cereal cropping systems and pastoral areas as the base for a sustainable agriculture development in Mediterranean countries / Aïssa Abdelguerfi, Tayeb Ameziane El Hassani; title: A way for developing integrated system at landscape level in tropical areas / René Poccard-Chapuis, Philippe Lecomte.