Grassland Productivity and Ecosystem Services

G. Lemaire, J. Hodgson, A. Chabbi (Dir.).
d. Wallingford: CABI, 2011, v. 1, p. 271-280, ISBN 9781845938093

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This book contains 28 chapters with emphasis on the interactive nature of the relationships between the soil, plant, animal and environmental components of grassland systems, both natural and managed. It analyses the present knowledge and the future trends of research for combining the classical view of grasslands, as a resource for secure feeding of an increasing human population, with the more recent perspective of the contribution of grasslands to the mitigation of environmental impacts and biodiversity erosion as consequences of human society activities. The chapters are organized within five sections dealing with the different functions and the main ecosystem services expected from grasslands: (i) domestic herbivore feeding and animal production; (ii) the regulation of biogeochemical cycles and its consequences for the environment; (iii) dynamics of biodiversity hosted by grasslands; (iv) integration of grasslands within sustainable animal production systems; and (v) interactions of grassland areas with other land use systems at the landscape level. 1 chapitre MOUVE: Poccard-Chapuis R.; Lecomte P., (2011). A way for developing an integrated system at the landscape level in tropical areas. In: Lemaire g., Hodgson J., Chabbi A. (Org.). Grassland productivity and ecosystem services, ed. Wallingford: CABI, 2011, v. 1, p. 271-280, ISBN 9781845938093 This chapter discusses the integration of livestock systems using grassland areas with cropping systems for a more sustainable agricultural system at the regional level for tropical conditions, with an emphasis on peri-urban systems. These concepts are illustrated using three case studies: village systems of the Sudanese zone of Mali; agro-industrial cluster systems of Goiás, Central Brazil; and pioneering fronts in the Amazonian forest.