Livestock grazing as a major kind of land use, strongly affects ecosystems by altering composition of plant assemblages, spatial heterogeneity of plants and soil properties. Knowledge of the relationship      between vegetation and underlying ecological drivers is essential to understand ecosystem functioning and regulate conservation practices. In selected sites we are inspecting a pattern of relationship between plant species, soil properties and grazing pressure by using satellite images and ground truth data. Accordingly, it is possible to quantify vegetation shifts and  foresee succession pathways.
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Nevena Stevanović

Ecological interactions