The power of long-term observation: what can reveal 19 years of grassland monitoring without experimental manipulation?

LUCIANA GHERMANDI; SOFIA GONZALEZ; JORGELINA FRANZESE; FACUNDO JOSÉ ODDI

Bologna

Congreso; 2nd International Conference on Community Ecology (COMEC); 2019

IntroductionLong- term ecological monitoring is required for understanding population dynamics. Vegetation changes in arid and semi-arid ecosystems generally occur in the short- term in response to rainfalls and in the long-term in response to rare events (fires, volcanic eruptions). For developing management strategies for sustainable animal production and species conservation it is necessary to know how resilient arid and semi-arid ecosystems are.