A framework for the prognosis of degraded pastures

Pastures represent nearly 70% of the world's agricultural area, which occupies some 26% of solid Earth (http://fao.org). In Brazil, pastures occupy 179 million hectares of rural land (Parente et al., 2017), but 70% of this area evidences some degree of degradation. Exposed soil is among the most important features of pasture degradation (Tepanosyanet al., 2017), together with invasive foliage and termite nests (Galdino, 2012). Pasture degradation is a source of global concern, because it leads to erosion and affects the carbon storage capacity of soils (Torres et al., 2019), among other environmental consequences.


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