New research led by a team of scientists from The University of Manchester has shown that intensive grassland management impairs the capacity of soils to buffer extreme droughts, which are becoming ...

Grassland Ecosystem ... Thus interconnected food chain system is formed known as a food web. 2. Nutrient cycle in an ecosystem: For any ecosystem to be successful, it is important that the ...

Thus far, this has been shown by studies in the so-called grassland, i.e. in areas that ... important for stabilizing the insects' food webs. The decline in biodiversity and the associated loss ...

"Grasslands are generally regarded to play an important role in increasing food production to meet future food demand," says Tamara Fetzel, a researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology in ...

Corn and soy fields are rapidly swallowing up grassland in the western corn belt ... the idea of making the nation more resilient and food secure by diversifying away from them.