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… the latter are excessive disturbance, intensive land use, overgrazing, indiscriminate removal of grassland and forests, … to LD, including over-exploitation, irrational land use, overgrazing, excessive mining and denudation, and … of ecological capacity. 92 During 1980–1990 the degree of overgrazing of grassland in the PRC was 50–120 percent, up to …

… drivers such as deforestation, wetland drainage, overgrazing, unsustainable land use practices, and the … such as vegetation clearance; nutrient depletion; overgrazing; inappropriate irrigation; excessive use of … are either natural or human-induced. Deforestation, overgrazing, and the expansion of agricultural, industrial, …

… fuel-wood, fodder and unsustainable timber extraction. ■ Overgrazing: overgrazing by livestock leads to loss of vegetation cover, … but also causes soil compaction by livestock trampling. Overgrazing predisposes soil to water and wind erosion. ■ …

… in the Serengeti ecosystem, which was supposed to lead to overgrazing. In retrospect this is wrong, as the present … as are at present (DSE 1964, 1968), and there is now no overgrazing. The Serengeti scheme was characterized by little … environmental degradation, including deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, overexploitation of biodiversity …

… Ecosystems and Livelihoods Ecosystem degradation from overgrazing, deforestation, agricultural activity, …

… the widening of roads, removal of hedgerows or orchards, overgrazing, expansion in the use of herbicides or even just …