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- Library Collection RecordThe 6th Congress of Plant Protection with Symposium about Biological Control of Invasive Species. Book of abstracts, 2.- Beograd (Serbia): Drustvo za zastitu bilja Srbije, 2009. Kongres o zastiti…Publication Date 2009
- Feed Crops
- rangelands
- Asteraceae
- invasive species
- Weeds
- Pest insects
- Bulgaria
- Asteraceae
- Asteraceae
- Bulgaria
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- vegetation
- forage
- density
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- ecology
- Poaceae
- rangelands
- ecological soil types
- irrigation
- nickel
- Poaceae
- alfalfa
- Poaceae
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- toxicity
- phytotoxins
- livestock
- summer
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- Statistical methods
- species
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- analysis
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- Diet preferences
- grazing
- small ruminants
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- animal feeding
- grassland management
- rangelands
- nutritive value
- chemical composition
- grazing lands
- Feed grasses
- energy
- forage
- Festuca
- Trifolium
- animal husbandry
- Festuca
- Trifolium
- Festuca
- Trifolium
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- seed collection
- rangelands
- grazing lands
- grasslands
- identification
- forests
- plants
- provenance
- land resources
- identification
- provenance
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- grazing lands
- grasslands
- Feed grasses
- Feed Crops
- plants
- identification
- provenance
- Germplasm collections
- seed production
- topography
- climatic factors
- geography
- vegetation
- Collection
- identification
- provenance
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- ecology
- environmental factors
- rangelands
- grazing lands
- pastures
- environmental protection
- Nature conservation
- Feed grasses
- forage
- yields
- climatic data
- rain
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- animal feeding
- Feed grasses
- chemical composition
- digestibility
- rangelands
- pastures
- grazing lands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Lucerne
- productivity
- height
- rangelands
- grazing lands
- Introduced varieties
- forage
- irrigation
- nickel
- alfalfa
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- sheep
- grazing
- animal feeding
- landscape
- pastures
- meadows
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- grasslands
- Feed grasses
- Agropyron cristatum
- Bromus
- Festuca ovina
- planting
- grassland management
- Agropyron cristatum
- Bromus
- Festuca ovina
- Collection
- Agropyron cristatum
- Bromus
- Festuca ovina
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- herbivores
- landscape
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- fatty acids
- lambs
- Fattening
- concentrates
- roughage
- diet
- feeding
- grazing
- rangelands
- pastures
- autumn
- Slaughtering
- highlands
- Norway
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Sudan
- animal husbandry
- forage
- grassland management
- rangelands
- sandy soils
- clay soils
- Sudan
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- rangelands
- precipitation
- steppes
- precipitation
- Library Collection RecordThis video gives an overview of the process of creating and selling carbon sequestration credits from western U.S. rangelands and pastures.Publication Date 2009
- rangelands
- carbon sequestration
- carbon credits
- carbon trading
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis video briefly covers some of the major changes in grazing management since the early 1900s.Publication Date 2009
- rangelands
- grazing management
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- grasslands
- Feed grasses
- breeding
- legumes
- genetic resources
- regeneration
- seeds
- genetic variation
- Poaceae
- Leguminosae
- rangelands
- forage
- yields
- regeneration
- Poaceae
- Leguminosae
- Poaceae
- Leguminosae
- Library Collection RecordGrowing recognition that periodic fire is critical for maintaining the health of many rangeland ecosystems and concerns over more frequent catastrophic wildfires have focused attention on prescribed…Publication Date 2008-07-01
- landowner associations
- landowner attitudes
- prescribed fire
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordSoil depth effects on honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr) cover and density and perennial grass standing crop were evaluated over an 11-yr period (1995-2005) on two lightly stocked and two…Publication Date 2008-05-01
- brush control
- drought
- grazing
- herbicides
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordLack of long-term ecological monitoring presents a challenge for sustainable rangeland management in many areas of the western United States. Ranchers and other land managers have local knowledge…Publication Date 2008-03-01
- local knowledge
- ranch memoirs
- rangelands
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordGrazing management has focused largely on promoting vegetation homogeneity through uniform distribution of grazing to minimize area in a pasture that is either heavily disturbed or undisturbed. An…Publication Date 2008-01-01
- ecosystem management
- equilibrium
- grasslands
- grazing
- heterogeneity
- landscape ecology
- patch dynamics
- plant-animal interactions
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordAccelerated erosion is a major environmental, social and economical threat in South Africa. It is estimated that in excess of 400 million tones of soil is lost every year in South Africa, with much…Publication Date 2008
- soil erosion
- management
- bushveld
- rangelands
- savanna
- Game Reserve
- rainfall
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis video follows a powerpoint presentation covering the importance of rangelands and how such ecosystems function.Publication Date 2008
- rangelands
- management techniques
- ecosystems
- Library Collection RecordCarrying capacity is typically defined as the maximum population size that can be supported indefinitely by a given environment, but there are at least 10 different specific definitions used in basic…Publication Date 2008
- Density dependence
- Law of the minimum
- Logistic population growth model
- population regulation
- population size
- Sustainable yield
- carrying capacity
- cattle
- ecology
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe use of fire in the management of grassland is a common rangeland practice in South Africa. This portends ecological implication for the sustainability of the savannah rangelands as a system. A…Publication Date 2008
- fire ecology
- management
- savanna
- grasslands
- rangelands
- Soil Condition
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDebate among scientists about ecological dynamics and appropriate management of semi-arid rangelands has led to a challenge of received wisdoms of range management and pastoral development in dryland…Publication Date 2008
- Semi-arid rangeland
- pastoralism
- Water Point
- grazing gradient
- ordination
- species response curve
- Namibia
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- piosphere
- grazing
- biodiversity
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the 1980’s CSIRO and QDPI established a number of pasture legume evaluation trials throughout clay soil regions in Queensland’s semiarid tropical rangelands. These sites have long since been…Publication Date 2008
- rangelands
- Desmanthus
- Cahrters Towers
- Library Collection RecordSemi-arid areas are often considered to be environmentally and economically marginal, a situation which has been exacerbated by economic change, shifts in agricultural production and land use, and…Publication Date 2008
- Dry land degradation
- Economic decline
- Livestock trends
- population change
- Small towns
- rangelands
- Economic Aspects
- livestock
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is an urgent need for quantitative methods by which actual, as opposed to potential degradation can be mapped using spatially consistent criteria for large regions. This study tested the Local…Publication Date 2008
- AVHRR
- Communal lands
- desertification
- Local NPP scaling
- rangelands
- South Africa
- communal farming
- remote sensing
- degradation
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordKey resource areas (KRAs), defined as dry season foraging zones for herbivores, were studied relative to the more extensive outlying rangeland areas (non-KRAs) in Kenya. Field surveys with…Publication Date 2008
- drought
- forage
- foraging
- herbivore
- Pastoralist
- rangeland
- Satellite
- topography
- rangelands
- foraging ecology
- mapping
- ecosystem ecology
- landscape ecology
- soils
- monitoring
- conservation
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock overgrazing can threaten the ecological integrity of rangelands, and can also threaten the sustainability of pastoralist societies who depend on rangelands for their livelihood. Using…Publication Date 2008
- Microenvironment
- Nurse plants
- positive interactions
- rangeland degradation
- Shrub islands
- Vegetation restoration
- restoration ecology
- degradation
- rangelands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFragmentation of the ecosystems of the earth into spatially isolated units has emerged as a primary component of global change. Often, fragmentation results from actions that are intended to enhance…Publication Date 2008
- fragmentation
- rangelands
- adaptation
- public policy
- Economic Aspects
- policies
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCow-calf productivity on 2 lightly (25%-30% use) and 2 conservatively grazed pastures (35%-40% use) were evaluated over a 5-year-period (1997 to 2001) in the Chihuahuan Desert of south-central New…Publication Date 2007-01-01
- rangelands
- grazing management
- forage
- drought
- cattle productivity
- Library Collection RecordThis series of two papers describes a mechanistic model that simulates within years the productivity of vegetation and livestock on the communal semi-arid rangeland of the Succulent Karoo of South…Publication Date 2007
- semi-arid rangelands
- Mechanistic model
- plant growth
- diet selection
- food intake
- animal productivity
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- animal production
- communal farming
- livestock
- management
- soil moisture
- rainfall
- runoff
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe worldwide loss of utilisable rangeland in (semi-) arid areas results in huge economic and social costs. Only adaptive management strategies are able to cope with these systems, which are mainly…Publication Date 2007
- Non-equilibrium system
- grazing
- Opportunistic management
- Resting
- semi-arid
- simulation model
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- modelling
- Economic Aspects
- management
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClassic rangeland theory advocates stocking rangelands at relatively low and constant levels. This theory has been labelled inappropriate for savanna rangelands, because savannas are strongly…Publication Date 2007
- Bush encroachment
- Disequilibrium theory
- Opportunistic strategies
- Grass-tree interactions
- fire
- livestock production
- savanna
- rangelands
- stocking rates
- management
- modelling
- sustainability
- animal production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe health of arid and semiarid lands needs to be monitored, particularly if they are used to produce food and fiber, and are prone to loss of vegetation cover and soil. Indicators of landscape…Publication Date 2007
- DEM
- land condition
- landscape function
- landscape metrics
- rangelands
- Vegetation patchiness
- remote sensing
- monitoring
- rangeland condition
- soil erosion
- landscape ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn arid and semi-arid savannas, species diversity is strongly influenced by structural diversity, which in these systems is characteristically formed by woody vegetation. Shrub encroachment,…Publication Date 2007
- Yellow mongoose
- rangelands
- Individual-based model
- shrub encroachment
- Spatial explicit
- structural diversity
- ecosystem ecology
- savanna
- biodiversity
- mammals
- indigenous encroaching species
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe model of a variable climate driving natural resource behaviour, use and management of rangelands in Sub-Saharan Africa has been well explored within the non-equilibrium ecology discourse. This…Publication Date 2007
- non-equilibrium
- ecology
- irrigation
- River basin management
- Tanzania
- variability
- water resources
- sustainability
- natural resources
- adaptive capacity
- rangelands
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe reserves and homelands across South Africa share a common history of policy interventions resulting in sedentarization, villagization and formalization of communal land use. In Namaqualand, such…Publication Date 2007
- pastoralism
- Municipal commonage
- rangeland management
- Elite capture
- rangelands
- management
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- policies
- land reform
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe morphometrics of mandible and teeth of mixed-breed goats on rangeland were analyzed to investigate the association between the oral apparatus and diet type. Canonical relationship between sets of…Publication Date 2007
- diet
- grazing
- Mandible
- Jaw
- Incisor
- Molar teeth
- goats
- rangelands
- diet selection
- forage quality
- foraging ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrazing lands in Eritrea are degraded due to decades of overstocking and consequent overgrazing. Since the rangelands are accessible to entire village communities, organisation and coordinated…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- degradation
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- livestock
- management
- grazing
- Commercial farming
- cattle
- household income studies
- forage
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiodiversity is a critical component of the natural environment and the protection of it often meant the displacement of local communities in developing countries. The Richtersveld National Park (…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- conservation
- Population crashes
- Herd recovery
- goats
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- national parks
- sheep
- pastoralism
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordVegetative differences and changes were evaluated over a 6-year period (1999-2004) on adjoining conservatively grazed and grazing-excluded (22 years) shortgrass rangelands in northwestern New Mexico…Publication Date 2006-11-01
- rangelands
- cattle
- drought
- forage
- grazing management
- Library Collection RecordIn response to substantial economic and social dislocations in the United States, many rangeland owners are changing land use and management practices. Changes in land use can significantly affect…Publication Date 2006-11-01
- landowner attitudes
- land management
- rangelands
- social responsibility
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