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Carroll calls these “1,000,000 lawnmowers”.

An abundant keystone species-always a large grazer-such as wildebeest in Africa or bison in North America (or cattle grazed to imitate bison).

Published by Princeton University Press, it summarizes 60 years of studies of grasslands in East Africa.Ĭarroll explains that, in order to be healthy, desert grasslands require biodiversity: Carroll, a professor of molecular biology, genetics and medical genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, sheds light on grassland restoration. A new book, The Serengeti Rules by Sean B.

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Studies about how to enhance natural processes are essential but scarce. The most important issue in restoration ecology is determining how to stop, and then reverse, this biodiversity loss, which always leads to desertification. (CLICK HERE to see what is proposed by TPWD personnel to combat bighorn disease in at least one Western population.)Īre the sheep declines caused by “competition” from aoudad and other so-called “ invasive exotic” plants, animals and predators as Hernandez and the invasive species followers generally believe? Or can the declines be traced to failing habitats that are losing their ability to support pronghorn, deer, quail, bighorn and domestic animals like cattle, because the natural systems have been harmed by removing cattle and eradicating plants and animals? Here Texas organizations were tasked to take on aoudad. This was a topic of the Bighorn Managers’ Summit Meeting in Colorado, to which the authors refer. In our Sierra Diablo Mountains, bighorn have declined over 30 percent and hunting has been suspended.Īcross the West, bighorn populations are developing diseases. The complete picture is even starker: across far-West Texas, most game animals are in a state of irregular decline. Hernandez and his colleagues are correct about declines in the numbers of these species. TPWD Sheep Program Leader Froylan Hernandez says, “They (aoudad) threaten native species because they compete for food, cover/shelter and space.” Where these species are found together aoudad do comparatively well whereas numbers of deer, pronghorn and bighorn sheep decline irregularly according to TPWD surveys. The articles below reflect the institutions’ longstanding but scientifically unproven beliefs in “invasive species biology,” which support eliminating aoudad, among others, to protect “native” animals, especially Desert Bighorn Sheep, from “competition” of “invasive species.”.

In fact:Īoudad and Bighorn are Complimentary, not Competitive The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) say aoudad harm desert mule deer, pronghorn and desert bighorn, and habitat, because they (1) eat plants, (2) drink water and (3) do well.