Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review

By Megan McSherry, M. Ritchie. Global Change Biology, 2013

761 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Soil Science

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Pete Smith
2. Anubhav Jain
3. Tomislav Hengl
4. D. Eldridge
5. M. Lechowicz

In Ecology

1. M. Delgado‐Baquerizo
2. R. Griffiths
3. Jeroen Meersmans
4. Pete Smith
5. James Gerber
6. Jin-Sheng He
7. Tomislav Hengl
8. D. Eldridge

In Soil Science

1. Pete Smith
2. M. Delgado‐Baquerizo
3. Tomislav Hengl
4. A. Bondeau
5. Jonathan Sanderman
6. Greg Fiske

Citations in the corpus

• Global change pressures on soils from land use and management (2016, background): “A meta-analysis (McSherry & Ritchie, 2013) of grazer effects on SOC density (17 studies that include grazed and ungrazed plots) found higher grazing intensity was associated with increased SOC in grasslands dominated by C4 grasses (increase of SOC by 6–7%), but with lower SOC in grasslands dominated”
• Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use (2017, background): “This limitation may be particularly important for the grazing category, as SOC levels have been shown to decline with increasing grazing pressure (38), although this effect appears to be dependent upon grass species composition, with C3 grasses showing large declines and C4 grasses showing small gai”
• Grazing‐induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016, background): “Similar decreases in soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus due to grazing have been reported world-wide (Schipanski & Bennett 2012; McSherry & Ritchie 2013), and especially in Chinese grasslands (Bai et al. 2012; Xiong et al. 2014).”
• Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils (2015, background): “Improved grazing management (e.g. optimized stocking density) can reduce soil degradation and thereby maintain and enhance organic matter content (McSherry and Ritchie, 2013), benefiting soil C, nutrients, water, and biota as described above.”
• Grassland management impacts on soil carbon stocks: a new synthesis. (2017, background): “This is consistent with other recent syntheses (McSherry and Ritchie 2013, Wang et al. 2016).”
• Do grazing intensity and herbivore type affect soil health? Insights from a semi‐arid productivity gradient (2017, result): “Grazing could alter available C and N without changing total N, which would explain the lack of impact of grazing on total C or N, as has previously reported by some authors (e.g. McSherry & Ritchie 2013).”