Shallow Upland
Circle-spoke model
Scenario model
Current land use
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Management practices/drivers
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Description
This land use is native rangeland. Dominant use is grazing by ruminant livestock.
Submodel
Description
While not common, this site is sometimes planted to introduced grasses such as bermudagrass. Primary use is livestock and/or hay production. Often, this land use is managed as a monoculture with little biotic diversity. However, in some cases, forb/legume/grass mixtures are maintained with may increase soil and ecosystem health.
Submodel
Mechanism
With the cultivation and planting of perennial introduced forage grasses, this land use is converted to Introduced Pastureland.
Mechanism
This land use conversion is achieved through reseeding native grasses and forbs or allowing native species to repopulate the site by reducing management of introduced species. While the site may be converted back to a rangeland land use, some soil properties and ecological function may not return to pre-disturbance levels.
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