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{"title":"Evaluating Native Plant Community Characteristics After Restoration Efforts in Invaded Tallgrass Prairies","authors":"Jessica E. Mingione ,&nbsp;Jaime J. Coon ,&nbsp;James R. Miller","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Invasive grasses reduce native plant diversity in North America's tallgrass prairies and are commonly controlled using herbicide followed by seeding of native plants. Despite the long-term development of plant communities after seeding, evaluations of restoration outcomes rarely exceed 2 yr. Further, plant community development may be influenced by grazing by domestic cattle, a dominant land use in working landscapes that typify the Great Plains, yet this relationship is seldom explored. In the eastern Great Plains, we evaluated plant community characteristics over 8 yr in tallgrass prairies invaded by tall fescue (<em>Schedonorus arundinaceus</em>) after treatment with herbicide followed by seeding native plants. We compared 16 restoration sites seeded once between spring 2014 and 2021 to 2 unrestored, invaded sites and 3 high-diversity reference sites that were not restored. Domestic cattle grazed six restoration sites and one unrestored, invaded site; the remaining sites were ungrazed. In July 2021, we quantified the dominance and cover of herbaceous plants and the composition and richness of seeded species. Annual forb dominance, seeded species establishment and composition, native forb cover, and seeded species richness of older restorations closely resembled references. However, grazed restorations resembled high-quality references less closely than ungrazed restorations. Future studies should consider identifying high-quality reference sites that are grazed because ungrazed references may represent inappropriate target conditions for grazed restorations. The similarities we observed between older restorations and references highlight the importance of long-term evaluations when quantifying restoration outcomes and indicate that treatment with herbicide followed by native seeding has long-lasting positive effects for restoring native plant communities in invaded tallgrass prairies. Enhancing the practicality and effectiveness of restoration efforts in working landscapes is key to supporting grassland restoration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 134-145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Recent Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Grasslands in Slovenia: Contribution to Their Preservation and Management","authors":"Rui Machado ,&nbsp;Pedro Santos ,&nbsp;Nuno Sousa-Neves ,&nbsp;Janez Pirnat","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Seminatural European grasslands and pastures have a high conservation value because they provide different goods and services (meat, wool, carbon sequestration, etc.) and harbor diverse communities of plants and animals. These land use systems were created by low- and moderate-intensity use and, nowadays, face threats from both abandonment and overuse. Although less productive or less accessible areas are abandoned, triggering afforestation processes, others are subject to intensive agricultural practices with the addition of production factors and modern management schemes. Neither is comparable with the traditional uses that first formed and maintained these systems for generations, and therefore, it is fundamental to design effective policies to ensure a sustainable territorial coexistence of modern agriculture and traditional pastures and grasslands. In this work, we assessed the recent dynamics of pastures and grasslands in Slovenia. The results show distinct local changes and a nationwide general dynamic of area reduction and loss of patches. After elaborating on how such changes affect the landscape and some species according to their traits, we provide practical recommendations for policy design to contribute to protecting and promoting this land use system. We argue that the two major priorities should be to preserve the most relevant patches and to try to convert other land uses into grasslands, preferably attempting to merge separated patches and thus increasing the mean patch size of grasslands. Overall, by identifying trends, locating the different spatial changes, and complementing with a connectivity analysis, this approach can be valuable in identifying effective measures to protect and improve grasslands. Besides the concrete results obtained from the Slovenian case study, the underlying rationale and workflow can be applied elsewhere to produce similar outputs that help identify land transformation patterns and interpret specific land use category dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 204-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responses in the Physical Structure and Density of Bush Clumps on Piosphere Gradients in an Arid Thicket Mosaic, South Africa","authors":"Anton Schmidt ,&nbsp;Graham Kerley","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The hypothesis that transformation of rangelands by domestic mesoherbivores follows state-and-transition models allows for the prediction that the vegetation could cross an ecological threshold. We examine this hypothesis by attempting to identify structural thresholds in Gamka Thicket, a structurally heterogeneous variation of Albany Thicket in South Africa. We relate the physical structure and density of thicket bush clumps to distance from artificial watering points in four piosphere treatments differing in rangeland management history. Furthermore, we compare the pattern, extent, and variation in transformation at the end regions of our piosphere treatments with each other and with a transformed and untransformed reference site. Changes to the density and leaf mass below 1.5 m of bush clumps indicate that their structure is profoundly altered by mesoherbivores. Nevertheless, the evidence is not sufficient to indicate that irreversible changes in the physical structure of bush clumps have taken place and therefore that structural thresholds have been crossed. A useful addition to our sampling design would be to include exclosure plots along the piosphere gradients.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Pastoral Reforms Through the Performance of Agro-Pastoral Community-Based Organizations in South Tunisia","authors":"Mariem Sghaier ,&nbsp;Aymen Frija ,&nbsp;Julio Postigo ,&nbsp;Stijn Speelman ,&nbsp;Véronique Alary ,&nbsp;Mongi Sghaier","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pastoralism is one of the most important agricultural production systems in drylands worldwide. It plays an important role in both the economy and the cycle of ecosystem goods and services. However, it is vulnerable to climatic challenges such as prolonged drought and socioeconomic pressures such as administrative shortcomings and ineffective governance. Under neoliberal influence, political and economic reforms have been implemented over the last 30 years to address these threats. These reforms have promoted local institutions for rangeland management and agro-pastoral development. In this paper, we assess the impact of these reforms on pastoral devolvement and Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) by analyzing the performance of agro-pastoral community-based organizations CBOs in the province of Médenine (south-eastern Tunisia). We use a two-step methodology, with the first step focusing on a quantitative typology analysis of the performance of 31 CBOs. In a subsequent qualitative step, data from semi-structured interviews with 21 CBO chairpersons were used to identify the drivers of CBO performance.</div><div>Results show that only 10% of the CBOs studied are able to move towards autonomy and proper integration into local and regional institutional networks and development dynamics. About 42% of the CBOs need further support and are in a precarious situation as they are dependent on public support. The remaining 48% have a low growth potential and in the early stages of consolidation. The qualitative analysis suggests that these shortcomings are mainly related to the CBOs' lack of networking skills. In addition, CBOs should improve their reputation and gain more trust from pastoral communities. Our findings suggest that well-functioning institutions do contribute to rural development; however, the design of pastoralist policy and institutional reforms should include long-term complementary support for the institutions created and consideration of the pastoralist community and regional contexts in order to achieve long-lasting transformative outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 49-62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological Stoichiometry of Multiple Nutrients in Leymus chinensis and Soils Subjected to Long-Term Saline-Sodic Stress in Western Jilin Province, China","authors":"Xingyi Wang,&nbsp;Jingfa Zhong,&nbsp;Yuefen Li","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>L. chinensis</em> is considered an important plant for saline-sodic soil restoration. Ecological stoichiometry of multiple nutrient elements in <em>Leymus chinensis (L. chinensis)</em> and soils subjected to long-term saline-sodic stress remains unclear, which hinders our understanding of the mechanisms regulating nutrient cycling in the plant-soil environment. We examined nutrient element levels in saline-sodic soil and <em>L. chinensis</em> in western Jilin Province. Soil analysis revealed medium to high levels of available N, K, P, Mo, Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn. The Mn/Fe and N/P ratios exceeded the national soil average of China, while those of Fe/Cu, Fe/Zn, and P/K were comparatively lower. Furthermore, <em>L. chinensis</em> exhibited deficiencies in the Mn, Zn, and P. Mo/Mn, Mo/Zn, and Fe/Zn ratios, which were significantly higher compared to healthy plants, while Mn/Fe and P/K showed the opposite trend. Soil pH had the most significant effect on element stoichiometry in both the soil and in <em>L. chinensis</em>. Particularly, the soil available Mn, Zn, K, along with <em>L. chinensis</em> Mn, Fe, Cu, and P levels exhibited sensitivity to pH fluctuations. Additionally, we observed significant synergistic or antagonistic effects between the soil available element concentration and stoichiometry ratios. Among these, only Mn, Fe, Fe/Zn, Mo/Zn, N/K, and Mo/Fe in <em>L. chinensis</em> were significantly modeled (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.05). The Mo/Fe homeostasis index was the lowest at 0.97, followed by Fe (1.16), N/K (2.28), Mo/Zn (2.59), Fe/Zn (3.38), and Mn (4.92), while other elements and their stoichiometric ratios remained stable. Overall, <em>L. chinensis</em>, as the dominant species in saline-sodic soil, demonstrated high homeostasis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 125-133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indaziflam Provides Long-Term Reduction of Annual Brome Grass (Bromus spp.) in Canada's Mixedgrass Prairie","authors":"Anabel Dombro,&nbsp;Lisa Raatz,&nbsp;Edward W. Bork","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Annual bromegrasses are some of the most widespread and problematic weeds in North America and present a challenge in managing rangeland, with control options needed. The herbicide indaziflam has shown promise in long-term annual brome reduction on western United States rangeland, though how this strategy applies to northern temperate grasslands, including those of western Canada, remains uncertain. We studied the effect of indaziflam rate (0, 37.5, 75, and 150 g ai ha⁻¹) and timing (fall vs. spring) of application on long-term biomass and density of annual brome at two field sites in Canada's northern Mixedgrass Prairie. Reductions in brome were not evident until the second growing season following treatment. During the third growing season, the current recommended rate (75 g ai ha⁻¹) of indaziflam reduced brome biomass and density by at least 90% at both sites. By the fourth season, indaziflam continued to reduce brome biomass by 11% and 66%, and brome density by 76% and 95%, at the two sites, respectively. While reductions in brome biomass and density occurred at rates as low as 37.5 g ai ha⁻¹, this rate was not as reliable as higher rates of 75 and 150 g ai ha⁻¹. The timing of indaziflam application had little impact on long-term brome reduction. We conclude that a single application of indaziflam can reduce annual brome, including corn brome (<em>Bromus squarrosus</em> L.), in northern Mixedgrass Prairie grasslands for up to 4 years, and therefore provides another tool to manage the spread of these species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 73-82"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No Field Evidence of Grass Fuel Structure effects on Postfire Tree Mortality in Juniperus virginiana","authors":"Xiulin Gao ,&nbsp;Dylan W. Schwilk ,&nbsp;Robin Verble","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prescribed fires are an important management tool for containing woody plant encroachment in rangeland ecosystems. Grasses are the dominant fuel type in rangelands. Past work has shown that grass canopy architecture, which varies among grass species, can influence flammability. Whether variation in grass fuel structure can influence postfire plant responses has not yet been tested. To bridge this gap, we set up field burning experiments with different fuel treatments and examined postfire mortality of <em>Juniperus virginiana</em> L. in a tallgrass prairie in southwestern Missouri. We sampled 60 trees and measured tree height and diameter at breast height before the fire. Fuels surrounding each tree were manipulated to vary independently in both fuel load and fuel structure. Flame temperatures were measured during the fire, and both stem and canopy injuries were evaluated 1 d after the fire. We surveyed tree mortality 7 mo after the fire. We found no effects of either fuel load or fuel structure on postfire mortality or on canopy injury in <em>J. virginiana</em>. Canopy injury was a critical fire severity measurement determining postfire mortality in <em>J. virginiana</em>, and taller trees are more fire resilient. Despite laboratory-observed fuel structure effects on flammability, this study finds no evidence for the importance of grass fuel load and canopy architecture in influencing postfire tree response. This result might arise from the low crown depth and low canopy water content of <em>J. virginiana</em>, which can promote canopy fire and result in a high mortality rate across fuel treatments. Notwithstanding the negative results, testing laboratory-based findings in field settings is important for further examining laboratory observations and upscaling individual-level processes to ecosystems to help identify the key ecological processes determining population dynamics and community assembly. Our study also suggests that prescribed fire is an effective tool to remove encroaching <em>J. virginiana</em> in tallgrass prairies at an early stage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 110-117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patch-Burn Grazing: An Economic Analysis of Pyric Herbivory Rangeland Management by Cow–Calf Producers","authors":"Hannah M. Baker ,&nbsp;Hannah E. Shear ,&nbsp;Derrell S. Peel ,&nbsp;Kellie Curry Raper ,&nbsp;Samuel D. Fuhlendorf","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rangeland management decisions require cattle producers to select practices that improve the sustainability of rangelands to maintain cattle production while remaining profitable. The invasion of Eastern red cedar (<em>Juniperus virginiana)</em> across the Great Plains due to fire suppression is limiting grazeable land for cattle. Woody plant encroachment (WPE), combined with drought impacts and high input costs, becomes expensive for cattle producers who are forced to supplement, destock, or both. Patch-burn grazing is a practice based on the understanding of the interaction of fire and grazing (pyric herbivory) that divides a pasture into sections, burning one section rotationally each year. It offers improved rangeland productivity by providing high-quality forages, mitigation for drought impacts, and control of WPE. Despite these benefits, the adoption of patch-burn grazing by cattle producers is limited. Our goal involved increasing awareness of the benefits of patch-burn grazing by estimating the costs and long-term economic benefits and comparing them to those of one of the more traditional approaches of burning an entire pasture every 3 yr. In building an economic analysis, our objectives were to calculate utilization costs and quantify the benefits of high-quality forages and drought impact mitigation.</div><div>Results indicated that patch-burn grazing will cost approximately $5.94 more per hectare per year than burning the entire pasture every 3 yr. The benefit of cows having continual access to high-quality forages in recently burned areas results in savings of $20 per head per year in winter supplementation costs. Additionally, utilizing patch-burn grazing before a drought, not burning during a drought, and resuming after the drought reduce supplementation and burn costs by 4.5% and increase future value of savings by $100.21 per cow compared with those caused by traditional management practices after 6 yr. An economic analysis of patch-burn grazing provides beneficial economic information to aid cow–calf producers in the decision-making process of rangeland management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 41-48"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of Dormant Season and Contemporary Spring-Summer Grazing on Plant Community Composition in the Sagebrush Ecosystem","authors":"Vanessa M. Schroeder ,&nbsp;Dustin D. Johnson ,&nbsp;Kirk W. Davies ,&nbsp;Chad S. Boyd ,&nbsp;Rory C. O'Connor","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Livestock grazing is the primary land use across sagebrush ecosystems in the western US and its effects have been subject to extensive research and debate. Historical overgrazing, annual grass invasion and associated increase in fire frequency, conifer encroachment, climate change, and human modification have resulted in the loss or degradation of 86% of sagebrush ecosystems, leading to intensified interest in how remaining intact rangelands are managed. Unlike historical, continuous grazing, contemporary practices generally incorporate planned periods of rest and recovery from grazing during the growing season. Dormant season grazing is one such practice that shows promise for improving degraded rangelands and reducing wildfire risk. However, no studies have compared moderate intensity dormant season grazing to contemporary spring-summer grazing and grazing exclusion in sagebrush rangelands dominated by perennial bunchgrasses. We evaluated the effects of contemporary spring-summer grazing, dormant season grazing, and grazing exclusion on plant community characteristics in a Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystem. We expected the effects of dormant season grazing to be comparable to grazing exclusion. Deep-rooted perennial bunchgrass cover and density and shallow-rooted perennial bunchgrass cover in grazed areas did not differ from grazing exclusion (control) sites, and we found no support that grazing altered the deep-rooted perennial bunchgrass community through time. Dormant season grazing reduced native annual forb and sagebrush cover, but increased density of the shallow-rooted perennial bunchgrass. Our results suggest contemporary spring-summer or dormant season grazing are unlikely to lead to a decline in desirable perennial bunchgrasses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 214-222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appraising Formal and Informal Insurance Approaches Within Pastoralist Social Networks in Northern Kenya","authors":"Brian N. Muchema ,&nbsp;Judith S. Mbau ,&nbsp;Nzioka J. Muthama","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pastoral resource scarcity resulting from climate shocks, particularly drought, impoverishes and adversely affects pastoralists in arid and semiarid lands. Understanding how pastoralists apply established and contemporary risk management approaches is critical for policy and planning on social protection for vulnerable communities. Hence, this study sought to describe existing informal risk-sharing approaches and explore index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) as a formal risk-sharing approach employed by pastoralists to cope with pastoral resource scarcity. Based on the socioecological and disaster approaches to resilience theory, this research employed a qualitative descriptive design. Using semistructured in-person interviews, data were collected from a sample of 69 household respondents, a focus group discussion, and 4 key informants. This study found that although social networks enhance resource sharing, adverse climate stressors were strangling the traditional resource-sharing structures of pastoralism. As a result, this study noted a potential shift from collective risk sharing to household-based or self-insurance among pastoralists. IBLI uptake was recorded as low at 17% due to low awareness levels, a slowed premium sale supply, and a plausible product trust deficit. This study affirms that formal insurance can leverage informal insurance social networks to assist households in coping better with climate shocks, thus enhancing livelihood resilience. The study recommends establishing a framework that integrates both the traditional and modern approaches to risk sharing. Additionally, a focus on designing formal risk-sharing products that cater to household and collective shock recovery may be promising.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"98 ","pages":"Pages 160-169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}