Interactive Effects of Ungulate Herbivores, Soil Fertility, and Variable Rainfall on Ecosystem Processes in a Semi-arid Savanna

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Short-term management and stocking rate effects of grazing sheep on herbage quality and productivity of Inner Mongolia steppe (2009, background): “Furthermore, positive effects of excremental depositions during grazing years may accelerate N cycling (Augustine and McNaughton 2006), and thus N availability could be compensated or even overcompensated in MS.”
Strategic management of livestock to improve biodiversity conservation in African savannahs: a conceptual basis for wildlife-livestock coexistence (2016, background): “Large herbivores also modulate fire frequency, distribution and post-fire vegetation dynamics (Fuhlendorf et al. 2009) and alter patterns of nutrient cycling (Augustine & McNaughton 2006).”
Savanna glade hotspots: Plant community development and synergy with large herbivores (2012, background): “Additionally, herbivores can increase mineralization rates (McNaughton et al., 1997), and grazing in glades can increase production and net nitrogen availability (Augustine and McNaughton, 2006).”
An integrated perspective to explain nitrogen mineralization in grazed ecosystems (2013, background): “In six of these studies, plant quality was measured, and in ll cases plant quality increased in the grazed treatment (e.g. Frank t al., 2000; Augustine and McNaughton, 2006; Table 1).”