Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being by Randall B Boone, Carolyn K Lesorogol, Kathleen A Galvin

“…Portions of group ranches of northern Kenya communally held by pastoralists have been removed from grazing to support wildlife and encourage tourism and the resources that follow. …”
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Mobilisations foncières et logiques d’autonomie des communautés paysannes de l’Urabá colombien (1997-2010) by Stellio Rolland

“…They thoroughly challenged the territorial expansion of powerful agribusiness companies (mostly oil palm plantations and cattle-ranching). At the local level, civil society has been gradually constituted and several local community organizations have exercised forms of autonomy, away from local irregular armed groups (guerrillas and paramilitaries) and from the central State.…”
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Evaluation of Two Levels of Trace Mineral Supplementation to Beef Calves Prior to Weaning by Gracia M. P. Hernandez, Aline C. R. Dos Santos, Matheus F. L. Ferreira, David Bohnert, Juliana Ranches

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A hierarchical network approach for modeling Rift Valley fever epidemics with applications in North America. by Ling Xue, Lee W Cohnstaedt, H Morgan Scott, Caterina Scoglio

“…The model is applied to a large directed asymmetric network of 3,621 nodes based on actual farms to examine a hypothetical introduction to some counties of Texas, an important ranching area in the United States of America. The nodes of the networks represent livestock farms, livestock markets, and feedlots, and the links represent cattle movements and mosquito diffusion between different nodes. …”
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Bolivia's Net Zero path: Investment needs, challenges, and opportunities by Lykke E. Andersen, Luis E. Gonzales, Alfonso Malky

“…Achieving Net Zero would require a complete change of the current resource-intensive development model and would especially have to adjust the incentives that are promoting the rapid expansion of soybean farming and cattle ranching in the Bolivian Amazon and Chiquitano forests. …”
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Abalones at risk: A global Red List assessment of Haliotis in a changing climate. by Howard Peters, Gina M Ralph, Laura Rogers-Bennett

“…In response, the authorities have focused on abalone ranching and stock enhancement. In Japan, with a long history of abalone fishing, wild stocks are routinely supplemented with hatchery-bred juveniles. …”
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Assessment of the resilience and long-term effects of climate change on the surface area of Lake Yojoa by Alexander David Reyes-Avila, Riley Ann Baxter

“…However, the development of the watershed during the last four decades imposed multiple anthropogenic pressures including mining, hydroelectric power generation, aquaculture, agriculture, ranching, and tourism businesses. Lake eutrophication emerges from these human-induced stressors, and climate change is the newest stressor threatening Lake Yojoa’s ecosystem health. …”
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Risk analysis and probability of return on invested capital in an intensive beef cattle production system in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Ronan Aparecido Valadares Santana, Fabiano Alvim Barbosa, Venício José de Andrade, Patrícia Caires Molina, Geraldo Helber Batista Maia Filho, Juliana Mergh Leão

“…The probability of return on capital invested in the intensification of fattening beef cattle is a function of the selling price of cattle and purchase of inputs, in which the high scenario ranching provides greater probability of getting a return above the bank interest rates.…”
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L’exposition des populations des atolls de Rangiroa et de Tikehau (Polynésie française) au risque de submersion marine by Alexandre K. Magnan, Marien Ranché, Virginie K.E. Duvat, Adrien Prenveille, Fanny Rubia

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The Gunnison Basin Sage-grouse Strategic Committee: A Colorado County’s Fight for Conservation Self-Determination by James Cochran, Jonathan Houck, Greg Peterson

“…The Gunnison Basin Sage-grouse Strategic Committee (GBSGSC) was created, with appointed (by the BoCC) representatives from the federal land management agencies, the state wildlife agency, the neighboring county, the ranching community, the environmental community, the development community, the recreation community, and the public at large. …”
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Ichthyo-diversity of Batur Lake, Bali: A preliminary study by Syah Tariqoh, Pertami Nyoman Dati, Perwira Ima Yudha, Sari Kadek Ayu Padma, Pramana Made Arya Surya, Bisma Muhammad, Suryaningtyas Endang Wulandari

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Cascading effects of elephant–human interactions and the role of space and mobility in sustaining biodiversity by David Western, Victor N. Mose

“…During this period, the free‐ranging intermingled movements of wildlife and traditional subsistence pastoralists across the Amboseli ecosystem were disrupted by a national park, livestock ranches, farms, settlements, and changing lifestyles and economies. …”
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Consequences for Maasai pastoralists of changing water access regimes in the Greater Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya by Arthur Bostvironnois, François Mialhe, Yanni Gunnell, Oldrich Navratil

“… Among the Maasai group ranches surrounding Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, perennial springwater from the foothills of Mt. …”
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A comparison of geographic datasets and field measurements to model soil carbon using random forests and stepwise regressions (British Columbia, Canada) by Heather J. Richardson, David J. Hill, Dan R. Denesiuk, Lauchlan H. Fraser

“…The outcomes of this study provide the groundwork for effective monitoring of SC using geographic datasets to enable a carbon offset program for the ranching industry.…”
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Recruitment Patterns and Environmental Sensitivity of Glass Eels of <i>Anguilla japonica</i> in the Yangtze Estuary, China by Hongyi Guo, Xuguang Zhang, Ya Zhang, Wenqiao Tang, Kai Liu

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DNA barcoding reveals global and local influences on patterns of mislabeling and substitution in the trade of fish in Mexico by Adrian Munguia-Vega, Renata Terrazas-Tapia, Jose F. Dominguez-Contreras, Mariana Reyna-Fabian, Pedro Zapata-Morales

“…Half of the samples collected belonged to five species traded globally (yellowfin tuna, Atlantic salmon, mahi, swai, and tilapia), most of them with important aquaculture or ranching production levels. These species were commonly used as substitutes for other species and showed low mislabeling rates themselves (≤ 11%, except mahi mahi with 39% mislabeling). …”
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Assessment of the Risk of Foot and Mouth Disease among Beef Cattle at Slaughter from East African Production Systems by Julie Adamchick, Karl M. Rich, Andres M. Perez

“…Cattle originating from feedlot and ranching systems in Kenya had the lowest overall probabilities of the eight systems evaluated. …”
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Growth of Caiman crocodilus yacare in the Brazilian Pantanal. by Zilca Campos, Guilherme Mourão, Marcos Coutinho, William E Magnusson

“…We studied growth of the caiman, Caiman crocodilus yacare, in the Brazilian Pantanal for 27 years between 1987 and 2013.We recaptured 647 of 7769 C. c. yacare initially marked in an area of 50 km(2), in two ranches. We were able to determine size at age accurately for 24 male and17 female caimans that had been marked at hatching or less than 1 year old, and recaptured over periods of 5 to 24 years. …”
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Impacts from Wildfires on Livestock Health and Production: Producer Perspectives by Kathleen C. O’Hara, Juliana Ranches, Leslie M. Roche, Tracy Kay Schohr, Roselle C. Busch, Gabriele U. Maier

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Characteristics of Higher Harmonic Forces on Submerged Horizontal Cylinders with Sharp and Round Corners by Hongfei Mao, Jinwen Zeng, Guanglin Wu, Hanqing Chen, Shuqin Zhang, Yuanting Yang, Qinru Yang

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