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Abstract Aim The intensification of livestock systems generates structural and functional changes in native grassland, which alter their capacity to respond to disturbances. Our objective was to evaluate the resilience to an extraordinary consecutive‐droughts event, across an intensification gradient of livestock systems. Our prediction was that sites with more intensive management (less diverse) will have lower resilience (as resistance and/or recovery) to drought. Location South‐central region of Uruguay. Methods We evaluated the resilience (as resistance and recovery) to consecutive droughts, across an intensification gradient of livestock systems. We analyzed the effect of diversity on resilience at two scales: (1) regional — an observational experiment with real commercial farms, wher
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