Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

Fernando T Maestre^{1

2}, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet³, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo^{4

5}, David J Eldridge⁶, Hugo Saiz^{7

8}, Miguel Berdugo^{9

10}, Beatriz Gozalo¹, Victoria Ochoa^{1

11}, Emilio Guirado¹, Miguel García-Gómez¹², Enrique Valencia^{13

14}, Juan J Gaitán^{15

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17}, Sergio Asensio¹, Betty J Mendoza¹³, César Plaza¹¹, Paloma Díaz-Martínez¹¹, Ana Rey¹⁸, Hang-Wei Hu^{19

20}, Ji-Zheng He^{19

20}, Jun-Tao Wang^{21

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23}, Anika Lehmann^{24

25}, Matthias C Rillig^{24

25}, Simone Cesarz^{26

27}, Nico Eisenhauer^{26

27}, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama¹, Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez²⁸, Osvaldo Sala^{29

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31}, Mehdi Abedi³², Negar Ahmadian³², Concepción L Alados³³, Valeria Aramayo³⁴, Fateh Amghar³⁵, Tulio Arredondo³⁶, Rodrigo J Ahumada³⁷, Khadijeh Bahalkeh³², Farah Ben Salem³⁸, Niels Blaum³⁹, Bazartseren Boldgiv⁴⁰, Matthew A Bowker^{41

42}, Donaldo Bran³⁴, Chongfeng Bu^{43

44}, Rafaella Canessa^{45

46}, Andrea P Castillo-Monroy⁴⁷, Helena Castro⁴⁸, Ignacio Castro⁴⁹, Patricio Castro-Quezada⁵⁰, Roukaya Chibani³⁸, Abel A Conceição⁵¹, Courtney M Currier^{29

31}, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi⁵², Balázs Deák⁵³, David A Donoso^{47

54}, Andrew J Dougill⁵⁵, Jorge Durán^{48

56}, Batdelger Erdenetsetseg⁴⁰, Carlos I Espinosa⁵⁷, Alex Fajardo⁵⁸, Mohammad Farzam⁵⁹, Daniela Ferrante^{60

61}, Anke S K Frank^{62

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64}, Lauchlan H Fraser⁶⁵, Laureano A Gherardi⁶⁶, Aaron C Greenville⁶³, Carlos A Guerra^{26

67}, Elizabeth Gusmán-Montalvan⁵⁷, Rosa M Hernández-Hernández⁴⁹, Norbert Hölzel⁶⁸, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald³⁶, Frederic M Hughes^{51

69}, Oswaldo Jadán-Maza⁵⁰, Florian Jeltsch^{25

39}, Anke Jentsch⁷⁰, Kudzai F Kaseke⁷¹, Melanie Köbel⁷², Jessica E Koopman⁷³, Cintia V Leder^{17

74}, Anja Linstädter^{64

75}, Peter C le Roux⁷⁶, Xinkai Li^{43

44}, Pierre Liancourt^{46

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78}, Jushan Liu⁷⁹, Michelle A Louw⁷⁶, Gillian Maggs-Kölling⁸⁰, Thulani P Makhalanyane⁷³, Oumarou Malam Issa⁸¹, Antonio J Manzaneda^{82

83}, Eugene Marais⁸⁰, Juan P Mora⁸⁴, Gerardo Moreno⁸⁵, Seth M Munson⁸⁶, Alice Nunes⁷², Gabriel Oliva^{60

61}, Gastón R Oñatibia⁸⁷, Guadalupe Peter^{17

74}, Marco O D Pivari⁸⁸, Yolanda Pueyo³³, R Emiliano Quiroga^{37

89}, Soroor Rahmanian^{59

90}, Sasha C Reed⁹¹, Pedro J Rey^{82

83}, Benoit Richard⁹², Alexandra Rodríguez⁴⁸, Víctor Rolo⁸⁵, Juan G Rubalcaba⁹³, Jan C Ruppert⁴⁶, Ayman Salah⁹⁴, Max A Schuchardt⁷⁰, Sedona Spann⁴¹, Ilan Stavi⁹⁵, Colton R A Stephens⁶⁵, Anthony M Swemmer⁹⁶, Alberto L Teixido⁹⁷, Andrew D Thomas⁹⁸, Heather L Throop^{99

29}, Katja Tielbörger⁴⁶, Samantha Travers¹⁰⁰, James Val¹⁰¹, Orsolya Valkó⁵³, Liesbeth van den Brink⁴⁶, Sergio Velasco Ayuso⁸⁷, Frederike Velbert⁶⁸, Wanyoike Wamiti¹⁰², Deli Wang⁷⁹, Lixin Wang¹⁰³, Glenda M Wardle⁶³, Laura Yahdjian⁸⁷, Eli Zaady¹⁰⁴, Yuanming Zhang¹⁰⁵, Xiaobing Zhou¹⁰⁵, Brajesh K Singh^{21

22}, Nicolas Gross¹⁰⁶

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio "Ramón Margalef," Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
² Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
³ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Avignon Université, IRD, IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
⁴ Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.
⁵ Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
⁶ Department of Planning and Environment, c/o Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain.
⁸ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁹ Institut de Biología Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁰ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹¹ Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
¹² Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain.
¹⁴ Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁵ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Instituto de Suelos-CNIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁶ Universidad Nacional de Luján, Departamento de Tecnología, Luján, Argentina.
¹⁷ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁸ Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁹ Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.
²⁰ Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
²¹ Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
²² Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
²³ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
²⁴ Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany.
²⁵ Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.
²⁶ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁷ Leipzig University, Institute of Biology, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁸ Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
²⁹ School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
³⁰ School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
³¹ Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
³² Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
³³ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
³⁴ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina.
³⁵ Laboratoire de Recherche: Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (BioDev), Faculté des Sciences, Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algérie.
³⁶ Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C., San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
³⁷ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina.
³⁸ Laboratory of Range Ecology, Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia.
³⁹ University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Potsdam, Germany.
⁴⁰ Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
⁴¹ School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
⁴² Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
⁴³ Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
⁴⁴ Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
⁴⁵ Ecological Plant Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
⁴⁶ Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁴⁷ Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
⁴⁸ Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁴⁹ Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez (UNESR), Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Centro de Estudios de Agroecología Tropical (CEDAT), Miranda, Venezuela.
⁵⁰ Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica, Grupo de Agroforestería, Manejo y Conservación del paisaje, Cuenca, Ecuador.
⁵¹ Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bahia, Brazil.
⁵² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
⁵³ Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary.
⁵⁴ Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador.
⁵⁵ Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
⁵⁶ Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, CSIC, Pontevedra, Spain.
⁵⁷ Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
⁵⁸ Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
⁵⁹ Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
⁶⁰ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria EEA Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
⁶¹ Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
⁶² School of Agriculture, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶³ Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶⁴ Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
⁶⁵ Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁶ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁶⁷ Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
⁶⁸ Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
⁶⁹ Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), Espírito Santo, Brazil.
⁷⁰ Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁷¹ Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
⁷² Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
⁷³ Microbiome@UP, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷⁴ Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Río Negro, Argentina.
⁷⁵ Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany Group, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
⁷⁶ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷⁷ Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic.
⁷⁸ Botany Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁷⁹ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
⁸⁰ Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia.
⁸¹ Institut d'Écologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Université Paris Est Creteil, Université de Paris, Centre IRD de France Nord, Bondy, France.
⁸² Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
⁸³ Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
⁸⁴ Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
⁸⁵ Forestry School, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain.
⁸⁶ US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
⁸⁷ Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸⁸ Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁸⁹ Cátedra de Manejo de Pastizales Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina.
⁹⁰ Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
⁹¹ US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA.
⁹² Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, INRAE, ECODIV, Rouen, France.
⁹³ Deparment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁹⁴ Al Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine.
⁹⁵ Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel.
⁹⁶ South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Phalaborwa, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
⁹⁷ Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
⁹⁸ Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.
⁹⁹ School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
¹⁰⁰ Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁰¹ Science Division, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, New South Wales Government, Buronga, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁰² Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰³ Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Mobile Post Negev, Israel.
¹⁰⁵ State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China.
¹⁰⁶ Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

PMID: 36423285
DOI: 10.1126/science.abq4062

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

Fernando T Maestre et al. Science. 2022.

. 2022 Nov 25;378(6622):915-920.

doi: 10.1126/science.abq4062. Epub 2022 Nov 24.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio "Ramón Margalef," Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
² Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
³ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Avignon Université, IRD, IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
⁴ Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.
⁵ Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
⁶ Department of Planning and Environment, c/o Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain.
⁸ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁹ Institut de Biología Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁰ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹¹ Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
¹² Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain.
¹⁴ Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁵ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Instituto de Suelos-CNIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁶ Universidad Nacional de Luján, Departamento de Tecnología, Luján, Argentina.
¹⁷ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁸ Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁹ Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.
²⁰ Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
²¹ Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
²² Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
²³ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
²⁴ Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany.
²⁵ Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.
²⁶ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁷ Leipzig University, Institute of Biology, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁸ Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
²⁹ School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
³⁰ School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
³¹ Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
³² Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
³³ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
³⁴ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina.
³⁵ Laboratoire de Recherche: Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (BioDev), Faculté des Sciences, Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algérie.
³⁶ Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C., San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
³⁷ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina.
³⁸ Laboratory of Range Ecology, Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia.
³⁹ University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Potsdam, Germany.
⁴⁰ Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
⁴¹ School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
⁴² Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
⁴³ Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
⁴⁴ Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
⁴⁵ Ecological Plant Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
⁴⁶ Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁴⁷ Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
⁴⁸ Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁴⁹ Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez (UNESR), Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Centro de Estudios de Agroecología Tropical (CEDAT), Miranda, Venezuela.
⁵⁰ Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica, Grupo de Agroforestería, Manejo y Conservación del paisaje, Cuenca, Ecuador.
⁵¹ Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bahia, Brazil.
⁵² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
⁵³ Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary.
⁵⁴ Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador.
⁵⁵ Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK.
⁵⁶ Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, CSIC, Pontevedra, Spain.
⁵⁷ Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
⁵⁸ Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
⁵⁹ Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
⁶⁰ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria EEA Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
⁶¹ Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
⁶² School of Agriculture, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶³ Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶⁴ Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
⁶⁵ Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁶ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁶⁷ Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
⁶⁸ Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
⁶⁹ Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), Espírito Santo, Brazil.
⁷⁰ Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁷¹ Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
⁷² Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
⁷³ Microbiome@UP, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷⁴ Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Río Negro, Argentina.
⁷⁵ Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany Group, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
⁷⁶ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷⁷ Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic.
⁷⁸ Botany Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁷⁹ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
⁸⁰ Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia.
⁸¹ Institut d'Écologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Université Paris Est Creteil, Université de Paris, Centre IRD de France Nord, Bondy, France.
⁸² Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
⁸³ Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
⁸⁴ Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
⁸⁵ Forestry School, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain.
⁸⁶ US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
⁸⁷ Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸⁸ Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁸⁹ Cátedra de Manejo de Pastizales Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina.
⁹⁰ Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
⁹¹ US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA.
⁹² Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, INRAE, ECODIV, Rouen, France.
⁹³ Deparment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁹⁴ Al Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine.
⁹⁵ Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel.
⁹⁶ South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Phalaborwa, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
⁹⁷ Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
⁹⁸ Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.
⁹⁹ School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
¹⁰⁰ Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁰¹ Science Division, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, New South Wales Government, Buronga, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁰² Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰³ Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Mobile Post Negev, Israel.
¹⁰⁵ State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China.
¹⁰⁶ Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

PMID: 36423285
DOI: 10.1126/science.abq4062

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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.

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Ganguli AC, O'Rourke ME. Ganguli AC, et al. Science. 2022 Nov 25;378(6622):834. doi: 10.1126/science.add4278. Epub 2022 Nov 24. Science. 2022. PMID: 36423300

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