Özet:

Grasslands and rangelands have many ecological and economic benefits such as soil conservation animal health, animal nutrition,biological diversity, wild life, recreation besides providing feed for animals. The correct managing of this natural resources andrehabilitation of this degraded areas are necessary for both animal production and the country’s economy. The main habitat factors limitingthe production in arid rangelands are the irregular and the inadequate rains. As a result of wrong grazing and overgrazing causedeteriorating of ecosystem balance, decreasing of production and begin soil erosion in this vulnerable ecosystems. The rangelands maylose their ecological and economic importance in time. It is needed to choose soil preventive and high productive plants in arid and semiarid rangeland rehabilitation. In this study, some of the native plant species are determined which can be used for erosion control andforage production for rehabilitation of arid rangelands in Çankırı region.

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