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Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) CAB Reviews Perspectives in Agriculture Veterinary Science Nutrition and Natural Resources Année : 2012

Intensification of animal production from grassland and ecosystem services: a trade-off

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Grasslands have to be considered not only as a means for human food production but also as a means for providing ecosystem services. Coupling of C and N cycles through soil-vegetation interactions gives grassland ecosystems a high capacity for reduction of environmental impacts. Moreover, the high biodiversity within grasslands gives them a high-adaptive capacity to changes and perturbations. Nevertheless, the C-N decoupling by grazing animals annihilates partly these ecosystem services as the intensification and hence the production increase. Research is necessary for optimizing this trade-off through spatial and temporal interactions with other land use systems at farm and landscape level.
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hal-02646148 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Gilles G. Lemaire. Intensification of animal production from grassland and ecosystem services: a trade-off. CAB Reviews Perspectives in Agriculture Veterinary Science Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2012, 7 (12), pp.1-7. ⟨10.1079/PAVSNNR20127012⟩. ⟨hal-02646148⟩
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