Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

Fernando T. Maestre; Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet; Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; David J. Eldridge; Hugo Saiz; Miguel Berdugo; Beatriz Gozalo; Victoria Ochoa; Emilio Guirado; Miguel García-Gómez; Enrique Valencia; Juan J. Gaitán; Sergio Asensio; Betty J. Mendoza; César Plaza; Paloma Díaz-Martínez; Ana Rey; Hang Wei Hu; Ji Zheng He; Jun Tao Wang; Anika Lehmann; Matthias C. Rillig; Simone Cesarz; Nico Eisenhauer; Jaime Martínez-Valderrama; Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez; Osvaldo Sala; Mehdi Abedi; Negar Ahmadian; Concepción L. Alados; Valeria Aramayo; Fateh Amghar; Tulio Arredondo; Rodrigo J. Ahumada; Khadijeh Bahalkeh; Farah Ben Salem; Niels Blaum; Bazartseren Boldgiv; Matthew A. Bowker; Donaldo Bran; Chongfeng Bu; Rafaella Canessa; Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy; Helena Castro; Ignacio Castro; Patricio Castro-Quezada; Roukaya Chibani; Abel A. Conceição; Courtney M. Currier; Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi

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Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

Fernando T. Maestre^*, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, David J. Eldridge, Hugo Saiz, Miguel Berdugo, Beatriz Gozalo, Victoria Ochoa, Emilio Guirado, Miguel García-Gómez, Enrique Valencia, Juan J. Gaitán, Sergio Asensio, Betty J. Mendoza, César Plaza, Paloma Díaz-Martínez, Ana Rey, Hang Wei Hu, Ji Zheng He, Jun Tao WangAnika Lehmann, Matthias C. Rillig, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez, Osvaldo Sala, Mehdi Abedi, Negar Ahmadian, Concepción L. Alados, Valeria Aramayo, Fateh Amghar, Tulio Arredondo, Rodrigo J. Ahumada, Khadijeh Bahalkeh, Farah Ben Salem, Niels Blaum, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Matthew A. Bowker, Donaldo Bran, Chongfeng Bu, Rafaella Canessa, Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy, Helena Castro, Ignacio Castro, Patricio Castro-Quezada, Roukaya Chibani, Abel A. Conceição, Courtney M. Currier, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi

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Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may occur but have never been addressed simultaneously. Using a standardized survey at 98 sites across six continents, we show that interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil, and biodiversity are critical to explain the delivery of fundamental ecosystem services across drylands worldwide. Increasing grazing pressure reduced ecosystem service delivery in warmer and species-poor drylands, whereas positive effects of grazing were observed in colder and species-rich areas. Considering interactions between grazing and local abiotic and biotic factors is key for understanding the fate of dryland ecosystems under climate change and increasing human pressure.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	915-920
Number of pages	6
Journal	SCIENCE
Volume	378
Issue number	6622
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq4062
State	Published - Nov 25 2022

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Maestre, F. T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eldridge, D. J., Saiz, H., Berdugo, M., Gozalo, B., Ochoa, V., Guirado, E., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., Gaitán, J. J., Asensio, S., Mendoza, B. J., Plaza, C., Díaz-Martínez, P., Rey, A., Hu, H. W., He, J. Z., ... Darrouzet-Nardi, A. (2022). Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. SCIENCE, 378(6622), 915-920. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq4062

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