Abstract:
This book aims to raise awareness among scientists and policy makers of the impacts that grazed grasslands have on the environment. There are 10 chapters entitled: (1) Greenhouse gas emissions; (2) Impacts of pastoral grazing on soil quality; (3) Land-water interactions: impacts on the aquatic environment; (4) Socio-economic issues in pasture-based farming; (5) Impact of livestock grazing on extensively managed grazing lands; (6) Environmental effect of sheep farming; (7) Pressures on beef grazing in mixed production farming; (8) The environmental impacts of non-irrigated, pasture-based dairy farming; (9) Impacts of irrigated dairying on the environment; and (10) The impact of hybrid dairy systems on air, soil and water quality: focus on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling.
Description:
Cuttle, S. P. (2008). Impacts of pastoral grazing on soil quality, in Environmental impacts of pasture-based farming, (ed) McDowell, R. W. CAB International, pp. 33-74 Chapter 2: The influence of pastoral grazing on the physical (soil structure, drainage and erosion), chemical (soil organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrient losses, heavy metal content, and soil acidification and salinity) and biological components of soil quality is discussed. The influence of pastoral grazing on the physical (soil structure, drainage and erosion), chemical (soil organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrient losses, heavy metal content, and soil acidification and salinity) and biological components of soil quality is discussed. RONO: 2430 4122;2430 4123