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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
Source
Current Science, Vol 110, No 7 (2016), Pagination: 1142-1143
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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