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ArticleEcological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America2026

Livestock grazing boosts plant diversity in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.

Yustina Kiwango, Rob Venderbos, Yuhong Li, Han Olff, Michiel P Veldhuis

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Article in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Livestock grazing boosts plant diversity in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yustina KiwangoConservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Rob VenderbosConservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Yuhong LiConservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-6817
Han OlffConservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Michiel P VeldhuisInstitute of Environmental Sciences Institute, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intensifying land use is a global threat to biodiversity, and livestock grazing-occupying 26% of terrestrial land-is one of such threats. Designated protected areas are one of the key conservation strategies to halt biodiversity loss, but their effectiveness is debated, in part because of data shortage at relevant spatial scales (>1 ha). We investigate how livestock grazing affects plant diversity in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem, Tanzania. We recorded plant diversity in sites with and without livestock across different scales: from 1-m

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BiodiversityEcosystemHerbivoryLivestockPlantsAnimalsConservation of Natural ResourcesTanzaniabiodiversity conservationbiotic homogenizationMaasai pastoralistprotected areascaling

Identifiers

PMID41865296
PMCPMC13005998

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