_______________________________________________Purpose |
The goal for this event was to promote linkages between managers and researchers interested in rangeland management for multiple ecosystem services, such as clean water, nutrient sequestration, forage and livestock production, habitat and biodiversity. There is a clear need for increased integration of management and research knowledge in determining strategies to simultaneously enhance multiple services. Presentations showcased some of the current research on rangeland management for ecosystem services. Throughout the day, emphasis was placed on identifying strategies to enhance multiple services, understanding the mechanisms driving management success and failure, and creating a forum for managers and researchers to share and learn from each other now and in the future. |
_______________________________________________Presentations |
Ken Tate, Managing Rangelands for Multiple Ecosystem Services. Introduction to managing for ecosystem services on rangelands with discussion of the current supporting science, information gaps, and the Prescribed Grazing for Ecosystem Service Project. >> Get PDF Justin Derner, Livestock as Ecosystem Engineers. Discussion of potential to use livestock as ecosystem engineers to enhance grassland bird habitat, and the potential benefits and consequences for species conservation and ranch profit. >> Get PDF Valerie Eviner, Managing the drivers of ecosystem services in California’s grasslands. Report current research focusing on the controls over multiple services in California’s grasslands (e.g., net primary production, nutrient cycling and retention, and weed control), and discussion of implications for management to enhance these services. >> Get PDF Leslie Roche, Oak Management Impacts on Multiple Ecosystem Services. Discussion of tradeoffs among ecosystem services along a rangeland vegetation management gradient from intact native oak woodlands to cleared, open grasslands. >> Get PDF Mark Lubell, Integrating Ecosystem Services into Adaptive Rangeland Management. Range Manager Decision Making Survey on Ecosystem Goals and Management. Preliminary report of what almost 500 California ranchers told us about their ecosystem management priorities and decision making processes. Prescribed Grazing Trial. Visit to active grazing experiment in which we are evaluating impacts of grazing intensity and seaso on cattle production, grassland bird habitat, nutrient and pollutant distribution, N cycling, and weed suppression. >> Get PDF |
_______________________________________________Presenters |
Ken Tate, Russell L. Rustici Endowed Chair of Rangeland Watershed Sciences, CE Specialist and Vice Chair for Outreach & Extension, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis Alexis Robertson, Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis |
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