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Managing rangelands: promoting native shrub species, Salsola vermiculata L.: Highly palatable shrub for silvopasture in arid and semi-arid ecosystems
Salsola vermiculata is a perennial species in arid and semi-arid areas of the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and North Africa. This factsheet illustrates the benefits of Salsola vermiculata as drought tolerant and high ...
Effect of sheep grazing on rangeland plant communities: Case study of landscape depressions within Syrian arid steppes
The arid rangelands of Syria cover over half of the nation’s landmass. Punctuating this landscape are broad, dry basins, or wadis, and gentle landscape depressions that exhibit localized elevated vegetation productivity ...
Al Badia Community Survey in Syria: Descriptive Statistics
This report presents descriptive statistics derived from the survey data. It simply describes the situation in the
Badia in spring 2005. Further ecological and economical analyses and conclusions will be reported in
another ...
Sustainable Restoration of Jordan’s Badia Agroecosystems
The present work provides a good overview of activities of rangelands restoration techniques applied in Jordan Badia based on different methods and means provided by ICARDA. The intended of these activities is to help ...
Procedure_Part 3_Rangeland Community Survey
The community rangeland management survey adds another aspect to the characterization of the rangeland Badhia. The questionnaire includes quantitative as well as qualitative data. Most of the information gathered is an ...
The effect of grazing exclusion on vegetation characteristics and plant community structure in arid lowland pastures
Rangelands are the mainstay of pastoral livelihoods worldwide. Within rangelands, there are landscape depressions or lowlands characterized by high production potentials with their unique edaphic and hydrologic properties. ...
Procedure_Part 2_ Range Field Verification Survey
The use of qualitative information (e.g., observations) to determine range and soil conditions has a long history of use in rangeland inventory and monitoring. The methodology adopted could be termed as rapid assessment ...