Year: 2025 | Month: July | Volume: 12 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 627-643
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20250766
Effects of Livestock Grazing on Soil Erosion and Sustainability: A Bibliometric Review
Jam Marrie Nanche M. Paulin
West Visayas State University- College of Agriculture and Forestry, Jayobo, Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines.
ABSTRACT
This bibliometric analysis identified major themes for climate change and ecosystem-related research through the network, thus showing how interdisciplinary these areas are. Co-occurrence maps indicated that climatic change serves as a sort of central theme linking many separate disciplines, from land management to biodiversity preservation and environmental sustainability. The analysis provided three important clusters: the red cluster, which focuses more on biodiversity and agriculture for land-use changes and management of carbon; the green cluster, which emphasizes studying soil quality, erosion, and human impacts on environmental stability; and the blue cluster, in which sustainable development and ecosystem services are cited as being essential in mitigating the effects of climate change. Overall, these clusters show how those research themes are inter-related to better understand climate challenges. However, the analysis here also reveals gaps in making technological tools, such as remote sensing, an integrative tool for sustainable policy-making on biodiversity conservation. Future research areas should focus on the incorporation of technology to improve land-use change and ecosystem degradation monitoring, the formulation of implementable policies that synchronize agricultural productivity with biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience strategies in such areas as grassland restoration and soil carbon sequestration. These focus areas are essential for developing the right approaches to address these challenges of climate change.
Keywords: climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, land-use change, sustainable development
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