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Nutrient Cycling Budgets in Managed Pastures

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Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 10))

Abstract

About 53 million km2, or 40% of the Earth’s land surface is grassland, containing about one-third of the global stock of terrestrial C. Grasslands are ecosystems where the dominant vegetation component is comprised of herbaceous species, with less than 10% tree cover (Jones and Donnelly 2004). Grasslands are either natural vegetation (e.g. the steppes of central Asia and prairies of North America) or anthropogenic in origin (e.g. north-western and central Europe, New Zealand, parts of North and South America and Australia). Grasslands are heavily relied upon for food and forage production, and about one-third of world milk and beef production occurs on grassland managed solely for these purposes (Conant et al. 2001).

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Scholefield, D., Jewkes, E., Bol, R. (2007). Nutrient Cycling Budgets in Managed Pastures. In: Marschner, P., Rengel, Z. (eds) Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Soil Biology, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68027-7_8

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