A case of benign neglect

100%

given more attention in scientific writing about pastoralism and rangelands (see Figure 14).

When searching for second- and third-tier keywords related to pastoralists’ well-being, ‘population’ was the most popular keyword (610 hits), followed by ‘conflict’ and ‘culture’ (166 and 117 hits respectively). The three least popular keywords were ‘gender’, ‘education’ and ‘participation’ (34, 66 and 69 hits respectively). Within the sample, the nature of rangelands was the issue with the highest coverage. The three most popular keywords were ‘vegetation’, ‘buffer’ and ‘corridor’ (758, 631 and 610 hits respectively) and the three least popular keywords were ‘undergrazing’, ‘non-equilibrium/disequilibrium’ and ‘biodiversity conservation’(12, 41 and 63 hits respectively). The sample was also examined for terms relating to rangelands benefit to people. Of the keywords searched, ‘grazing’ (1,097 hits) was the most used independent of subject. Other popular keywords within the sample and related to ecosystem services were ‘habitat’, ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘energy’ (366, 119 and 74 hits respectively). ‘Cultural value’ had six hits, while ‘natural value’ had only two hits. There were no hits for ‘wild gathering’ or ‘wild harvest’, though ‘harvest’ had 37 hits. On the subject of pastoralist assets, the most popular keywords were ‘adaptation’, ‘income’, ‘market’ and ‘mobility’ (181, 174, 166 and 161 hits

All academic publications in Scopus mentioning rangelands and pastoralism (2,658)

Rangelands bene t to people

Nature of rangelands

50%

Pastoralist well-being

grazing (1097)

vegetation (758)

25%

buffer (631)

population (610)

corridor (610)

condition (554) soil (592)

climate (533)

Number of publications mentioning each term

degradation (436) water (440)

habitat (366)

productivity (299)

diversity (285)

10%

Figure 14: Percentage of Scopus publications on pastoralism and rangelands that included second- and third-tier keywords Note: The bars indicate the number of hits found for each keyword and the relative gap between the themes

wildlife (210)

conflict (166)

overgrazing (149)

ecosystem (119)

participation (69) security (104) health (108)

culture (117)

energy (74)

carrying capacity (74) biodiversity conservation (63)

education (66)

tourism (45) grazing animal (37) harvest (37)

non-equilibrium (41)

gender (34)

1%

water regulation (3) cultural value (6)

undergrazing (12)

natural value (2)

alternative use (2)

wild gathering (0) wild harvest (0)

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