干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Small Ruminants Grazing as a Rehabilitative Land Management Tool in the Negev Highland; Soil, Geomorphological and Topographical Perspectives

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DOI	10.3390/agronomy11091730
	Small Ruminants Grazing as a Rehabilitative Land Management Tool in the Negev Highland; Soil, Geomorphological and Topographical Perspectives
	Mor-Mussery, Amir; Abu-Glion, Hiam; Shuker, Shimshon; Zaady, Eli
通讯作者	Mor-Mussery, A (corresponding author), Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Fac Agr, Dept Soil & Water Sci, IL-7610001 Rehovot, Israel. ; Mor-Mussery, A (corresponding author), Atid Bamidbar, POB 220, IL-8055401 Yeroham, Israel.
来源期刊	AGRONOMY-BASEL
EISSN	2073-4395
出版年	2021
卷号	11 期号:9
英文摘要	The 'wadis' (ephemeral incised channels in arid regions) concern badlands with low agriculture utilisation that expands to neighbouring cultivated areas. They are noticeable and unique landforms characterised by vegetation patches and seasonal flood flows with scenic beauty that must be conserved. The wadi characteristics have influenced the way of life of their indigenous residents from ancient times until now. The main one is grazing with small ruminants (SR). The authorities and public consider grazing in these areas as a destructive land management practice that should be reduced. To assess the viability of grazing in such regions, we hypothesised that fluvial and biological flows tightly correlate with the wadis' landforms, channels and slopes. The site of study is located in the Yeroham mountains nearby the Rahma planned Bedouin village. Five different transects of channels and slopes were located over representative wadis, including those exposed to grazing. The finding indicates that a herbaceous vegetation expansion uphill was observed only in grazed transects, while the wadi slope patterns affect its patterns. It contains an increased soil water content (from a similar value of 5% until 13% change in the grazed transect), 1.5% higher soil organic matter, 0.08 mg Kg(-1) higher Nitrite content and 1-2% higher clay content in the grazed transects, up to 4 m ahead from the channel. The novelty of this finding suggested that the SR influences the organic matter to reach the wadi channel and facilitate the adherence of aggregated clay and the formed colluvial layer that serves as a substrate to the expanded vegetation growth. Adequate implementation of these grazing patterns may rehabilitate degraded 'wadis' and increase their tourism eligibility.
英文关键词	indigenous desert residents wadi channel rehabilitation grazing pattern soil organic matter
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000699106800001
WOS关键词	FLORISTIC COMPOSITION ; VEGETATION ; EROSION ; DESERTIFICATION ; FERTILITY ; DIVERSITY
WOS类目	Agronomy ; Plant Sciences
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; Plant Sciences
来源机构	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362421
作者单位	[Mor-Mussery, Amir] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Fac Agr, Dept Soil & Water Sci, IL-7610001 Rehovot, Israel; [Mor-Mussery, Amir] Atid Bamidbar, POB 220, IL-8055401 Yeroham, Israel; [Abu-Glion, Hiam; Shuker, Shimshon; Zaady, Eli] Agr Res Org, Inst Plant Sci, Dept Nat Resources, Gilat Res Ctr, IL-8531100 Gilat, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mor-Mussery, Amir,Abu-Glion, Hiam,Shuker, Shimshon,et al. Small Ruminants Grazing as a Rehabilitative Land Management Tool in the Negev Highland; Soil, Geomorphological and Topographical Perspectives[J]. Hebrew University of Jerusalem,2021,11(9).
APA	Mor-Mussery, Amir,Abu-Glion, Hiam,Shuker, Shimshon,&Zaady, Eli.(2021).Small Ruminants Grazing as a Rehabilitative Land Management Tool in the Negev Highland; Soil, Geomorphological and Topographical Perspectives.AGRONOMY-BASEL,11(9).
MLA	Mor-Mussery, Amir,et al."Small Ruminants Grazing as a Rehabilitative Land Management Tool in the Negev Highland; Soil, Geomorphological and Topographical Perspectives".AGRONOMY-BASEL 11.9(2021).