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Grasslands and Pastoralism


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1 Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru 560 064, India
2 School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
 

Nomadic pastoralism may have preceded the emergence of settled agriculture along prehistoric floodplains. Yet, grasslands and pastoralism are misunderstood to this day. In India, we do not recognize grasslands as distinct, ecologically valuable ecosystems, and pastoralism, with its intrinsic dynamism and mobility, as a unique adaptation to the temporal and spatial variability inherent in grasslands.
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Ankila J. Hiremath
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru 560 064, India
Ramya Ravi
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru 560 064, India
Abi Tamim Vanak
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa

Abstract


Nomadic pastoralism may have preceded the emergence of settled agriculture along prehistoric floodplains. Yet, grasslands and pastoralism are misunderstood to this day. In India, we do not recognize grasslands as distinct, ecologically valuable ecosystems, and pastoralism, with its intrinsic dynamism and mobility, as a unique adaptation to the temporal and spatial variability inherent in grasslands.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv110%2Fi7%2F1142-1143