Gridded livestock density database and spatial trends for Kazakhstan.

ABSTRACT: Livestock rearing is a major source of livelihood for food and income in dryland Asia. Increasing livestock density (LSK_D) affects ecosystem structure and function, amplifies the effects of climate change, and facilitates disease transmission. Significant knowledge and data gaps regarding their density, spatial distribution, and changes over time exist but have not been explored beyond the county level. This is especially true regarding the unavailability of high-resolution gridded livestock data. Hence, we developed a gridded LSK_D database of horses and small ruminants (i.e., sheep & goats) at high-resolution (1 km) for Kazakhstan (KZ) from 2000-2019 using vegetation proxies, climatic, socioeconomic, topographic, and proximity forcing variables through a random fores

SUBMITTER: Kolluru V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10687097 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature