R. Scholes's scientific contributions
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... All over the world, the problem of rangeland degradation is well documented and proven that these rangelands are more susceptible to degradation over time (Palmer et al., 1997;Hoffman and Todd, 2000;Mekuria and Aynekulu, 2013). Due to the increasing of human population (3.2 billion) around the world, the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems can normally lead to a delay in the development of sustainable goals (Scholes et al., 2018;Mani et al., 2021). Gibbs et al. (2015) indicated that almost one to six billion hectares of world land are highly degraded. ...
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... Land is one of the most valuable natural resources and the most significant element in the agricultural sectors and business system's development, determining the management, procurement, and application of a complex process (Olumba et al., 2019). Land is an important measure of human income, stability, and economic growth, and it plays an important role in both urban and rural societies' human development (Kotiaho and Halme, 2018). It is a way of alleviating a variety of deprivations and is a significant component in achieving food stability, poverty alleviation, and long-term growth because of its effect on agricultural productivity (FAO, 2017). ...
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... We followed the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) definition of rangeland degradation, as "persistent loss of vegetation productivity cover, especially of those plants which support herbivores. " 19 . Our proposed parameters consisted of an index of bare ground cover (absence of grazeable vegetation cover) and the number of individual ITP, which replace plants palatable to herbivores. ...
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