{"id":1568,"date":"2012-10-18T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T05:15:02","slug":"chapter-changes-in-pastoral-land-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2012\/chapter-changes-in-pastoral-land-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Chapter: Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcal.geology.isu.edu\/staff-students\/staff\/teki-sankey\">Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bcal.geology.isu.edu\/staff-students\/staff\/teki-sankey\">, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/profile.usgs.gov\/jsankey \">Joel Sankey<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bcal.geology.isu.edu\/staff-students\/staff\/teki-sankey\">, Keith Weber, and <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bioregions.org\/\">Cliff Montagne<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices<\/h1>\n<p>in<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brill.com\/change-democratic-mongolia\">Change in Democratic Mongolia: Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcal.geology.isu.edu\/staff-students\/staff\/teki-sankey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1645 alignleft\" title=\"Change in Democractic Mongolia Banner\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/10\/Vertical-Banner-Change-in-Demo-MGL.jpg\" alt=\"Brill: Change in Democratic Mongolia\" width=\"120\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/10\/Vertical-Banner-Change-in-Demo-MGL.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/10\/Vertical-Banner-Change-in-Demo-MGL-60x300.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drastic changes have occurred in Mongolia\u2019s grazing land management over the last two decades, but their effects on rangelands are ambiguous. After the democratic changes in 1992, formerly state-owned livestock collectives were disbanded and Mongolia\u2019s livestock population was privatized. There was no longer a state institution to formally regulate pasture use and herders became responsible for pasture use management.\u00a0 Temporal trends in Mongolia\u2019s rangeland condition have not been well documented relative to the effects of long-term management changes. We studied the changes in pastoral land use management in Tsahiriin tal of northwestern Mongolia and their effects on rangeland vegetation productivity using a remote sensing satellite-based approach.\u00a0 Grazing lands in Tsahiriin tal that were formerly managed by the socialist collective are now used by numerous nomadic households with their privately-owned herds, although the lands remain publicly owned.\u00a0 Grazing pressure has more than tripled and herd distribution has changed from a few, spatially-clustered large herds of sheep to numerous smaller herds of multiple species including sheep, goats, horses, and cattle.\u00a0 Our satellite image analyses indicate that rangeland vegetation significantly decreased (<em>p<\/em>-value &lt;0.001) from the collective to the post-collective period.\u00a0 The observed decrease was significantly correlated with changes in the grazing management system and increased herd size. The decrease in rangeland vegetation might be further accelerated, if current grazing land use continues with no formal rangeland management institution or organized, well-structured efforts by the local herding households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in grazing management and herd size are leading to a decrease in rangeland vegetation in northwestern Mongolia. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2012\/chapter-changes-in-pastoral-land-use\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307940,307938,307939,307853],"tags":[7800],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-changes-in-democratic-mongolia","category-grassland","category-nomadism","category-research-on-mongolia","tag-guest-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}