Grassland Productivity and Ecosystem Services

• Introduction: Food security and environmental impacts; challenge for grassland sciences. Chapter 1: Primary production of grasslands, herbage accumulation and use, and impacts of climate change. Section 1: Productivity and use of grassland resource Chapter 2: Nutritional constraints for grazing animals and the importance of selective grazing behavior. Chapter 3: The influence of vegetation characteristics on foraging strategies and ingestive behavior. Chapter 4: Diversity, productivity and stability in grazing systems. Chapter 5: Importance of scale in the management of grassland resources. Chapter 6: Livestock production styles and managing grassland ecosystems. Section 2: Grasslands as regulating biogeochemical cycles and environmental fluxes to hydrosphere and atmosphere Chapter 7: Carbon storage and organic matter dynamics in grassland soil. Chapter 8: Managing C and N in grassland systems. The adaptive cycle theory perspective. Chapter 9: Managing mineral N leaching in grassland systems. Chapter 10: Greenhouse gas emission from grassland area and mitigation. Chapter 11: Role and impacts of legumes in grasslands for high productivity and N gain from symbiotic N2 fixation. Chapter 12: Efficiency of Phosphorus Cycling in Different Grassland Systems. Section 3: Grasslands as regulating biodiversity dynamics Chapter 13: Predicting biodiversity dynamics of grasslands under global changes: the role of long-term manipulation of climates. Chapter 14: Interactions between grassland management and species diversity. Chapter 15: Assessing the functional role of plant diversity in grasslands: a trait-based approach. Chapter 16: Exploiting genotypic and phenotypic plant diversity in grasslands. Chapter 17: Microbial diversity of grasslands, its functional role. Chapter 18: Soil fauna diversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands. Section 4: Grasslands as component of sustainable farming Chapter 19: Role of grasslands in intensive animal production in North-West Europe. Conditions for a more sustainable farming system. Chapter 20: Management of grazing systems in New Zealand and environmental impacts. Chapter 21: Rangeland management for sustainable conservation of natural resources. Chapter 22: Opportunities and challenges for integrating North-American crop and livestock systems. Chapter 23: Integration of grasslands within arable crop systems in South-America. Section 5: Grasslands as components of landscape ecology and agricultural systems at regional level Chapter 24: Temperate grasslands in catchment systems: the role of scale, connectivity and thresholds in the provision and regulation of water quality and quantity. Chapter 25: Integration of grasslands with forests at regional level. Chapter 26: Role of grasslands area within arable cropping systems for conservation or enhancing biodiversity at regional level. Chapter 27: Interactions between cereal cropping systems and pastoral areas as the base for a sustainable agriculture development in Mediterranean countries. Chapter 28: A way for developing integrated system at landscape level in tropical areas.

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