Restoring the degraded grassland and improving sustainability of grassland ecosystem through chicken farming: A case study in northern China
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Xu, Hong; Su, Hua; Su, Benying1; Han, Xingguo2 ; Biswas, Dilip K.; Li, Yonggeng
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| 刊名 | AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
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| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 卷号 | 186页码:115-123 |
| 关键词 | Chicken farming Grassland restoration Integrative ecosystem management Nutrient addition Sustainability development |
| ISSN号 | 0167-8809 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.001 |
| 文献子类 | Article |
| 英文摘要 | Long-term irrational land uses have fatigued the fragile grasslands globally, causing severe environmental problems and socio-economic losses. This paper addresses the feasibility of a new land use of chicken farming (CF) from natural, economic and social perspectives for devising sustainable development in a semi-arid grassland in northern China. The results of a 4-year controlled field experiment showed that CF could amend the infertile soils through feces inputs as indicated by the improvements in soil properties. Although there were some damage to grass growth in the first year of the experiment, vegetation coverage and aboveground biomass increased greatly in the following years, particularly in the third and fourth years. A quarter of feedstuff could be saved by chickens farmed in grassland compared with cage-raised chickens, accompanied by biological control of pest outbreaks. The 4-year practice at large scales by local household suggested that CF could be a more profitable enterprise compared to the conventional land use of ruminate grazing. Besides, CF could diversify livelihoods, which will lighten the reliance on traditional livestock grazing and thus help improve local social-ecological development. It was concluded that CF could be an integrative ecosystem management to rehabilitate the degraded grassland ecosystems toward a sustainable way. Finally, we highlighted an essential integration of bottom-up mechanism among local households with top-down incentives created by governments for sustainable development of chicken farming in the degraded grassland regions. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| 学科主题 | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary ; Ecology ; Environmental Sciences |
| 出版地 | AMSTERDAM |
| 电子版国际标准刊号 | 1873-2305 |
| WOS关键词 | INNER-MONGOLIA ; NITROGEN ADDITION ; EMERGY EVALUATION ; BROILER-CHICKENS ; SOIL CARBON ; MANAGEMENT ; VEGETATION ; RANGE ; LAND ; RESTORATION |
| WOS研究方向 | Agriculture ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000335871000012 |
| 出版者 | ELSEVIER |
| 资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270572] ; Strategic Pilot Fund for Science and Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA05070102] |
| 源URL | [http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/27052]  |
| 专题 | 植被与环境变化国家重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Inst Bot, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 2.Sichuan Agr Univ, Minist PR China, Key Lab Crop Ecophysiol & Farming Syst Southwest, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, State Key Lab Forest & Soil Ecol, Shenyang, Liaoning, Peoples R China 4.Biswas, Dilip K.] Agr & Agri Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xu, Hong,Su, Hua,Su, Benying,et al. Restoring the degraded grassland and improving sustainability of grassland ecosystem through chicken farming: A case study in northern China[J]. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT,2014,186:115-123. |
| APA | Xu, Hong,Su, Hua,Su, Benying,Han, Xingguo,Biswas, Dilip K.,&Li, Yonggeng.(2014).Restoring the degraded grassland and improving sustainability of grassland ecosystem through chicken farming: A case study in northern China.AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT,186,115-123. |
| MLA | Xu, Hong,et al."Restoring the degraded grassland and improving sustainability of grassland ecosystem through chicken farming: A case study in northern China".AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 186(2014):115-123. |
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