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The regeneration of soil is being recognized as a critical tool to sequester gigatons of carbon out of the atmosphere, needed to stabilize our climate and meet the IPCC goals of staying below a 2c temperature increase. Soil is holding 2-3x the amount of carbon as is in the atmosphere, and is the only viable…

This presentation will introduce the Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management (CARM) project and key social and ecological findings developed by the transdisciplinary research team over the past eight years. These include insights into the complexity of social learning, conservation/production trade-offs, and best practices for participatory grazing research methods, illustrating the value of building trust, connection to…

Many grasslands throughout the northern Great Plains of North America possess attributes that support the successful delivery of multiple ecosystem services. Among these services, climate mitigation has generated renewed interest from policymakers, private corporations, and land managers. Robust science-based guidance is needed to provide stakeholders with timely information regarding climate-related benefits from grasslands in the…

Decomposition of organic materials in grasslands leads to nutrient availability and nutrient cycling, which define quality and functionality of rangeland ecosystems. The inputs to the system include urine, dung, litter, and trampled vegetation and maybe influenced spatially and temporally by the grazing strategy. The nutrient cycling model of this grazed system as well as temporal…