Editing Biomimetics (section)

=== Agricultural systems ===
[[Holistic management|Holistic planned grazing]], using fencing and/or [[herder]]s, seeks to restore [[grasslands]] by carefully planning movements of large [[herding behavior|herds]] of livestock to mimic the vast herds found in nature. The natural system being mimicked and used as a template is [[grazing]] animals concentrated by pack predators that must move on after eating, trampling, and manuring an area, and returning only after it has fully recovered. Its founder [[Allan Savory]] and some others have claimed potential in building soil,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Teague |first1=W.R. |last2=Dowhower |first2=S.L. |last3=Baker |first3=S.A. |last4=Haile |first4=N. |last5=DeLaune |first5=P.B. |last6=Conover |first6=D.M. |title=Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie |journal=Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment |date=May 2011 |volume=141 |issue=3–4 |pages=310–322 |doi=10.1016/j.agee.2011.03.009 |bibcode=2011AgEE..141..310T }}</ref> increasing biodiversity, and reversing [[desertification]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weber |first1=K.T. |last2=Gokhale |first2=B.S. |title=Effect of grazing on soil-water content in semiarid rangelands of southeast Idaho |journal=Journal of Arid Environments |date=January 2011 |volume=75 |issue=5 |pages=264–270 |doi=10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.12.009 |url=http://giscenter.isu.edu/research/projects/jae_soilmoisture.pdf |access-date=5 March 2019|bibcode=2011JArEn..75..464W }}</ref> However, many researchers have disputed Savory's claim. Studies have often found that the method increases desertification instead of reducing it.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Briske |first1=David D. |last2=Bestelmeyer |first2=Brandon T. |last3=Brown |first3=Joel R. |last4=Fuhlendorf |first4=Samuel D. |last5=Wayne Polley |first5=H. |date=Oct 2013 |title=The Savory Method Can Not Green Deserts or Reverse Climate Change |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0190052813500320 |journal=Rangelands |language=en |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=72–74 |doi=10.2111/RANGELANDS-D-13-00044.1|hdl=10150/639967 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Monbiot |first=George |date=2014-08-04 |title=Eat more meat and save the world: the latest implausible farming miracle |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/aug/04/eat-more-meat-and-save-the-world-the-latest-implausible-farming-miracle |access-date=2024-05-30 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>