Grazing as an ecological force / José Ramón Arévalo -- Grazing practices in the range lands of the Indian Thar Desert and its impact on ecosystem and environment / R.S. Mertia and P. Santra -- The ecology of domestic grazing in the Australian Alps / K.L. McDougall, Richard J. Williams and Carl-Henrik Wahren -- Grazing management and impact in the Canary Islands: rethinking sustainable use / José Ramón Arévalo [and others] -- Ten years of exclusion from grazing increase native plant diversity in the Austral Patagonian steppe / Erwin Domínguez and Aníbal Pauchard -- The role of the nutritional and anti-nutritional characteristics in grazing management programs to control Centaurea solstitialis / Pelayo Álvarez -- Soil moisture patterns and fluxes responding to grazing intensity in semiarid Inner Mongolia grassland / Ying Zhao, Stephan Peth and Rainer Horn -- Diversity in management regimes: a major driver of the production/conservation trade-offs in grassland agroecosystem / Rodolphe Sabatier [and others] -- Assessment of soil physical properties in integrated crop-livestock systems in mollisols of Argentina / Patricia L. Fernández, Carina R. Alvarez and Miguel A. Taboada -- Effects of livestock grazing on overland flow and sediment yield on hillslopes in the Northern Negev, Israel / Sarah Pariente.