Bareiss et al. looked at the effects of two different grazing practices (short-duration grazing, SDG, and continuous grazing, CG) on the success of bobwhite and turkey nests on two study sites in southcentral Texas. The authors found that grazing treatment had no effect on coverage, density, or dispersion of nesting cover for either bird species mainly due to areas of low, thorny brush found within each study site. Stocking rate with either the SDG or CG did not have an overall effect on the amount of nests lost to trampling. Bareiss et al. determined from their results that SDG is not anymore harmful that CG when looking at nesting success of bobwhites and turkeys.
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