Current Science

Abi Tamim Vanak ¹, Aniruddha Belsare ², Meghna Uniyal ³, Rauf Ali ⁴

Affiliations
1 Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore 560 064, IN
2 Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203, US
3 43232, Sector-23, Gurgaon 122 017, IN
4 Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy & Learning, 170/3 Morattandi Village, Auroville PO 605 101, IN

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Abi Tamim Vanak ¹, Rauf Ali ²

Affiliations
1 Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore 560 064, IN
2 Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning, 170/3 Morattandi Village, Auroville 605 101, IN

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Ankila J. Hiremath ¹, Ramya Ravi ¹, Abi Tamim Vanak ²

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1 Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru 560 064, IN
2 School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, ZA

Abstract

Nomadic pastoralism may have preceded the emergence of settled agriculture along prehistoric floodplains. Yet, grasslands and pastoralism are misunderstood to this day. In India, we do not recognize grasslands as distinct, ecologically valuable ecosystems, and pastoralism, with its intrinsic dynamism and mobility, as a unique adaptation to the temporal and spatial variability inherent in grasslands.

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