Rangelands are characterized by the vegetation that is remaining in perennial cover due to low suitability for cultivation and annual cropping, although lands that are considered "arable" can still be converted into vegetative perennial cover. Rangelands are also characterized by the diversified outputs categorized as consumptive and non-consumptive and ecosystem services. Consumptive/non-consumptive outputs include meat and fibre (from livestock and wildlife), water quantity and quality, timber & fuel wood, minerals (including oil and gas), recreation, and biodiversity. Ecosystem services include climate amelioration (C-storage to offset greehouse gases), filtering pollutants (phyto-remediation of excess N/P) and maintaining three main functions: Energy flow, nutrient cycling/retention, and hydrologic functions.
Yes. Ranchers are also responsible for the care of rangelands.
Satish Chandra Pandeya has written: 'Status of the Indian rangelands' -- subject(s): Congresses, Range management, Range plants, Rangelands
Open range, or rangelands.
No weed "erodes" rangelands. Weeds infest or invade a rangeland, and the types of weeds that infest rangelands depends on the location. There are species of grasses, shrubs, forbs and trees that are considered invasive species, primarily because they are non-native, but also because they have been purposefully introduced by humans from other areas of the country.
There is more than one rangeland, and these rangelands are found all over the world in all continents and in every country. Rangelands encapsulate grasslands, forests, tundra, desert, foothills and montane regions.
Snobbish
variety
Fred J Wagstaff has written: 'Range and ranch economics bibliography, 1968-85' -- subject(s): Bibliography, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Grazing, Economic aspects of Range management, Economic aspects of Rangelands, Grazing, Range management, Rangelands
Gener Moulic Austria has written: 'The administration of public forest rangelands in the Philippines'
they occur in the brain
Incrementalism
positive