Pilot analysis of global ecosystems: grassland ecosystems.

By Robin P. White, S. Murray, Mark Rohweder. 2000

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Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands (2010, background): “Of the 40% of the Earth’s land surface that is grassland, over half has been converted to managed grazing ecosystems with a substantial area already degraded (White et al., 2000).”
Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures (2017, background): “However in many areas, livestock are not managed in ways that maintain or enhance biodiversity; high stocking densities and grazing patterns that do not resemble those of wild ungulates and instead undermine biodiversity, pollute water sources and erode soils (White et al., 2000).”
Global Rates of Habitat Loss and Implications for Amphibian Conservation (2007, background): “%) recorded for the regions in China, Turkey, Southeast Asia, South America, and portions of Africa (Fig.”
Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection (2004, methodology): “Previous analyses were limited to only a subset of the world’s biomes (e.g. White et al. 2000, FAO 2003), and often focused on habitat loss and protection separately (e.g. compare Hannah et al. 1995 and Chape et al. 2003), thus obscuring a broader perspective on the magnitude of the biome crisis.”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “Here, 72% of the natural steppes were still extant by the turn of the century (White et al., 2000).”
Conundrums in mixed woody–herbaceous plant systems (2003, background): “They support the majority of the world’s livestock and large mammals (White et al., 2000).”
Soil acidification exerts a greater control on soil respiration than soil nitrogen availability in grasslands subjected to long‐term nitrogen enrichment (2016, background): “Worldwide, steppe grasslands contains 16% of soil C and is also a major component of China’s grasslands (Robin & Rohweder 2000).”
Effects of large herbivore exclusion on southern Mongolian desert steppes (2010, background): “China and (outer) Mongolia have about 3.9 and 1.3 Mio km2 of steppe vegetation (White et al., 2000) respectively, most of which is intensively grazed by domestic livestock.”
The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis (2016, background): “While conversion into cropland is almost negligible in Mongolia,[10 % of steppes of Chinese Inner Mongolia have been ploughed (mainly in mesic tall grass steppes; John et al. 2009; White et al. 2000).”
Range Contractions of North American Carnivores and Ungulates (2004, background): “Overall, the North American prairies have declined by an average of 79% since the early 1800s (White et al. 2000).”
Short-term responses of native bees to livestock and implications for managing ecosystem services in grasslands (2012, background): “This is true despite the fact that livestock grazing is the most common use of grasslands world-wide (White et al. 2000).”
Evolution and origin of the Central Grassland of North America: climate, fire, and mammalian grazers1 (2006, background): “Nevertheless, a recent estimate is that about 40 percent of the global land surface is grassland (excluding Greenland and Antarctica) (White et al. 2000).”
Ecological roles and conservation challenges of social, burrowing, herbivorous mammals in the world's grasslands (2012, background): “grassland area across all continents (White et al. 2000), leading to substantial reductions in the amount of suitable habitat for burrowing mammals and consequent population declines in many species (eg Hoogland 2006; Noble et al.”