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Describe the main importance of rangelands in Kenya today.

      

Describe the main importance of rangelands in Kenya today.

  

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Jim
-Rangeland is largely used for grazing livestock.
-Rangelands also provide habitats for wildlife.
-provide watersheds for use by surrounding communities.
-Are aesthetic points of view and tourist attraction hence earning revenues.
-Provide food for animals and humans.
-Acts as carbon sink(Vegetation absorbs Carbon dioxide through photosynthesis without which co2 would accumulate causing global warming).
-Maintains ecological balance such as energy flow trough food chains and food web,Biogechemical cycles such as Nitrogen and carbon cycles done by the microbes such as Nitrosomonas that converts Ammonium ions to nitrites and Nitrobacter that converts the nitrites to nitrates.
-Source of energy for example wind and solar power.


jim items answered the question on October 18, 2018 at 08:43


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