Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.08.002
Hussein M. Sulieman , Maryam Niamir-Fuller
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The traditional cultivation of wild melon varieties to feed and water animals during the dry season has proven to be economically sound and environmentally sustainable.
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The practice is an example of mutual benefit and cooperation between settled agropastoral communities and mobile transhumant pastoralists.
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Although the practice of cultivating local melon varieties to feed animals appears to be currently thriving, it might become endangered in the future because of the introduction of mechanization of crop farming as well as the increasing cultivation of hybrid melons that have brought new pests and diseases.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.06.002
Caley K. Gasch , Katherine Kral-O'Brien
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We created a mentoring and support group for women students, staff, and faculty in our academic unit.
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The group met monthly to explore aspects of professional development, academic culture, workplace interactions, and work–life management.
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Participants agreed involvement in the group was a positive experience.
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We share summaries of the activities and topics the group addressed, and we encourage other agencies and institutions to consider forming women-focused mentoring programs.
{"title":"Supporting women in natural resource science with community building and advocacy","authors":"Caley K. Gasch , Katherine Kral-O'Brien","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><ul><li><span>•</span><span><div>We created a mentoring and support group for women students, staff, and faculty in our academic unit.</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>The group met monthly to explore aspects of professional development, academic culture, workplace interactions, and work–life management.</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Participants agreed involvement in the group was a positive experience.</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>We share summaries of the activities and topics the group addressed, and we encourage other agencies and institutions to consider forming women-focused mentoring programs.</div></span></li></ul></div></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"46 5","pages":"Pages 163-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.05.005
Alia N. DeLong , Claire Friedrichsen , Elizabeth H. Boughton , Hilary Swain , Maria Silveira, , Brent Sellers
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Rapid changes in science require rapid development of solutions. Working with diverse groups of stakeholders is important for developing robust research programs.
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Collaborative production (or coproduction) of knowledge can integrate multiple sources of knowledge from stakeholder groups such as farmers and ranchers, service providers, technical advisors, and nonprofit representatives.
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The nominal group technique (NGT) is one tool in coproduction of knowledge and is a simple and feasible methodology rangeland scientists can adopt in complex decision-making contexts.
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The Archbold-University of Florida Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network used NGT with an advisory council of stakeholder representatives to develop priorities for their research program, particularly high-priority treatments and measurements.
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Coproduced science identifies potential solutions more quickly than any group working on their own. Researchers can use NGT during collaborative processes to incorporate multiple sources of expert knowledge to create a more complete picture of a given situation.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.05.004
Landon R. Schofield , Micayla E. Pearson , Samuel Newell , Nathan Clackum , Benjamin L. Turner
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Increasing concern from both private citizens and intergovernmental organizations about the effects of climate change has led to regulatory and voluntary mechanisms aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including an emerging carbon credit market.
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Despite the opportunities for landowners to diversify revenue streams within current operations, there are risks (i.e., production and financial, market, legal-transactional, and social) that could reduce landowner enrollment rates.
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We used a systems thinking approach to map the feedback relationships among landowner decision-making considerations, soil system processes, and carbon credit market incentives.
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Our findings illustrate the complex set of constraints of participation in carbon credit programs and how they interact by revealing a limits to growth archetype.
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Landowners and crop and livestock producers are uniquely positioned to shape and develop the carbon credit market by filling the gap between equitable transaction participation for both carbon credit buyers and sellers looking to capture value from mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.05.001
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Targeted grazing is a management strategy for fuel reduction and cheatgrass control in the Great Basin. However, concerns of cattle acting as endozoochorous seed dispersal agents of invasive grass species have been expressed.
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In vitro and in situ techniques of ruminal fermentation and enzymatic digestion were employed to evaluate seed mortality.
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Our results showed a nearly complete inhibition of germination after 36 hours in the rumen followed by 3 hours in the abomasum.
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Our results indicate cattle grazing cheatgrass-infested rangelands will not spread cheatgrass seed via excrement.
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Cheatgrass seeds consumed in the fall will have a slight lag in microbial degradation.
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{"title":"Irrigation of Atriplex species with highly saline produced water for rangelands improvement in southeastern New Mexico","authors":"Akram Ben Ali, Mariah Armijo, Manoj Shukla","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p></p><ul><li><span>•</span><span><p>Southeastern New Mexico's rangelands are under stress due to a prolonged drought.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p><em>Atriplex lentiformis</em> and <em>Atriplex canescens</em> are native forage halophytic shrub species.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>In New Mexico and throughout the United States large amounts of water are generated daily during the extraction of oil and gas.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p><em>A. lentiformis</em> and <em>A. canescens</em> grow in high soil salinity conditions, which infers they can be used for rangelands improvement.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Both these species could act as candidate crops for animal fodder grown in arid areas.</p></span></li></ul></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"46 4","pages":"Pages 103-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052824000191/pdfft?md5=23914127af311eff4a860079c361ddbf&pid=1-s2.0-S0190052824000191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142151799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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