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- Library Collection RecordDrought is the single most important environmental factor that causes cattle population fluctuations in northern Kenya. The way the grazing lands and animal populations are affected by drought…Publication Date 2001
- arid zone
- cattle mortality
- drought management policy
- herd growth
- Kenya
- multiple droughts
- Obbu Booran
- Pastoralist
- recovery
- drought
- cattle
- grasslands
- animal production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA cutting experiment was carried out in Bah??a Blanca (Argentina) during 1998 and 1999 using a randomized block design in a 23factorial experiment: (1) the species Digitaria eriantha and Eragrostis…Publication Date 2001
- Digitaria
- Eragrostis
- yield
- quality
- Deferred
- grasslands
- forage quality
- fertilisation
- fodder production
- dry matter
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordExperiments were conducted to investigate: (1) tiller recruitment within the interior of Eragrostis curvula tussocks, with and without litter removal; and (2) effects of moderate defoliation on…Publication Date 2000
- tiller demography
- tiller mortality
- central dieback
- clipping
- bunchgrass
- Semi-arid rangeland
- warm-season grass
- rangelands
- plant autecology
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe significance of encroacher woody plant browse (among other factors) in the composition of the diet of cattle was quantified for July 1996, March 1997 and September 1997. This is important because…Publication Date 1998
- woody encroachers
- woody plant browse
- carrying capacity
- communal rangelands
- crude protein
- D. cinerea
- G. flava
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- foraging ecology
- cattle
- grasslands
- grazing
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFive techniques that are generally used in the western part of the grassland biome of southern Africa were evaluated. The techniques were tested on the mid-slopes (high species diversity) and…Publication Date 1997
- grazing gradient
- Key Species
- forage factors
- ordination
- grasslands
- grazing
- monitoring
- forage quality
- foraging ecology
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe gradual decline in the ecological condition of natural pastures as a result of over-utilization and the application of insufficient management decisions, coupled with the detrimental effects of…Publication Date 1997
- ecotype
- Digitaria eriantha
- Poaceae
- reclamation
- restoration
- arid grasslands
- restoration ecology
- rehabilitation
- grasslands
- management
- drought
- plant autecology
- rainfall
- vegetation dynamics
- seeds
- germination
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing the methods of direct gradient analysis, we investigated some of the factors responsible for species turnover in the dwarf shrubland/grassland interface of the eastern half of the Nama-Karoo…Publication Date 1994
- grasslands
- soil moisture
- species richness
- rainfall
- environmental factors
- climate change
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper discusses land use patterns of hunter-gatherers inhabiting arid grasslands of later Pleistocene East Africa, inferred from an analysis of raw material economy in five Later Stone Age (LSA…Publication Date 1999
- palaeobotany
- land use
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAs stated by many authors in the recent past, soil erosion is one of the major environmental problems in southern Africa and it will become even more severe in the future due to population growth and…Publication Date 2003
- remote sensing
- degradation
- Erosion modelling
- Swaziland
- modelling
- soil erosion
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA paired site study was conducted of communally grazed eutrophic and dystrophic grasslands and adjacent ungrazed areas of varying periods of exclusion from communal grazing. This allowed…Publication Date 1999
- grasslands
- grazing
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- animal production
- plant production
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordUniversity of Natal , Pietermaritzburg, Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences.Publication Date 2004
- grasslands
- mangement
- carbon dioxide
- community vegetation studies
- plant production
- water use efficiency
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnts are a prominent invertebrate group used to assess ecological change in response to disturbance. Their application as a bioindicator group has been particularly widespread in Australia, and a…Publication Date 2010
- Ants
- grazing
- Bioindicator
- land management
- Global patterns
- insects
- grasslands
- rangeland condition
- disturbance
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe desertification tendency of the Qubqi Desert in China for 10 years was investigated using vegetation and soil change indices extracted from seven LANDSAT TM images. To identify the…Publication Date 2011
- desertification
- grasslands
- monitoring
- LANDSAT vegetation index
- land use
- Qubqi Desert
- China
- Library Collection RecordOn rangelands, uneven or unmanaged livestock distribution can adversely affect plant community composition, riparian function, or displace wildlife. These issues have historic precedents and are…Publication Date 2009
- range management
- grazing behaviour
- forage selection
- standing crop
- management
- grasslands
- plant production
- forage quality
- cattle
- grazing
- Burns
- Oregon
- USA
- Library Collection RecordVariation in functional community composition is expected to influence the extent of exotic species invasions. Yet, whether resident functional groups control invasion through their relative biomass…Publication Date 2013
- biodiversity
- biotic resistance
- invasion ecology
- mass ratio hypothesis
- phenological niches
- rank abundance
- removal experiment
- subadditive effect
- grasslands
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- Flooding Pampa grassland
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordDioecious plants frequently face sex-related resource allocation trade-offs. Differential traits of male and female plants can have important consequences that influence their direct and indirect…Publication Date 2013
- arid ecosystems
- dioecy
- life-history traits
- O-ring statistics
- plant-herbivore interactions
- plant-plant interactions
- sex ratio
- Sexual dimorphism
- spatial pattern
- trade-offs
- grasslands
- grazing
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Patagonian steppe
- south-western Chubut
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordChilean needle grass [Nassella neesiana (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth; CNG] is a perennial spear grass that has invaded pastures in south-eastern Australia and can lead to a substantial reduction of…Publication Date 2014
- management
- grazing
- sheep
- grazing management
- pasture management
- sheep
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- animal production
- Herbicide
- soils
- seeds
- Austrailia
- Library Collection RecordSeveral studies have demonstrated that seed mass is related to different environmental factors. However, they have taken no account of the joint effects of spatial and phylogenetic information. We…Publication Date 2013
- Elevational gradient
- Phylogenetic autocorrelation
- soil pH
- soil fertility
- spatial autocorrelation
- temperature
- seeds
- grasslands
- climate
- soils
- modelling
- land use
- southern Alps
- Library Collection Record1. Successful poleward shifts of plant species ranges as a result of climate change will depend on interactions between migrating species and the communities they invade. Although poleward migration…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- grasslands
- seeds
- germination
- ecosystem ecology
- Brachypodium pinnatum
- Bromus erectus
- invader phenology
- invasion resistance
- plant-climate interactions
- resource availability
- seed provenance
- soil heterogeneity
- summer drought
- winter warming
- northern England
- Library Collection Record1. Annual above-ground net primary productivity (ANPP) in mesic grasslands is known to be highly temporally variable. While yearly precipitation or average yearly temperature can explain some of this…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- rainfall
- temperature
- plant production
- C4 grasses
- ecosystem ecology
- climate variability
- dominant species
- inflorescence
- intra-annual variation
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation
- structural equation modelling
- tallgrass prairie
- temperature
- Kansas
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and ammonia oxidizers (AO) represent key soil microbial groups regulating nitrogen (N) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Both utilize soil ammonium-N reserves…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nitrogen
- microbes
- allelopathy
- ammonia-oxidizing community activity
- mycorrhizae
- nitrification potential
- Nitrogen cycle
- plant species mycorrhizal investment
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- soil ecology
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordOn the main Japanese island of Honshu, bark or sawdust is often added to cattle excreta as part of the composting process. Dairy farmers sometimes need to dispose of manure that is excess to their…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- Compost
- Methane
- nitrous oxide
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- global warming
- soils
- ANOVA
- modelling
- Honshu
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Several multi-year biodiversity experiments have shown positive species richness-productivity relationships which strengthen over time, but the mechanisms which control productivity are not…Publication Date 2013
- biomass production
- Community mean traits
- environmental filtering
- functional diversity
- niche differentiation
- Species identity
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- community analysis
- vegetation dynamics
- species richness
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection Record1. While positive effects of biodiversity on temporal stability of communities have been demonstrated in theoretical and empirical studies, diversity -stability relationships at the population level…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- covariance
- plant population and community dynamics
- population stability
- synchrony
- temporal stability
- species richness
- plant production
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordMany regions of the globe are experiencing a simultaneous change in the dominant plant functional type and regional climatology. We explored how atmospheric temperature and precipitation control leaf…Publication Date 2013
- eddy covariance
- landscape position
- mesquite (Prosopis velutina)
- photosynthesis
- plant-climate interactions
- semi-arid
- temperature optima
- Vegetation Change
- woody plant encroachment
- indigenous encroaching species
- climate change
- temperature
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon flux
- rainfall
- grasslands
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- San Pedro River
- Arizona
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe ingression of woody plants into savannas, known as bush or shrub encroachment, has become a global concern. Fire has been acknowledged as a key factor in managing woody vegetation in savannas.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- savanna
- fire
- management
- grasslands
- old fields
- herbivores
- fire ecology
- Aulendorf
- Baden-Württemberg
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordTo elucidate the cessation impacts of agricultural management on a semi-natural grassland ecosystem, effects of grazing and burning on species composition of vascular plants were investigated in Mt.…Publication Date 2014
- management
- agriculture
- grasslands
- grazing
- fire ecology
- species richness
- Agricultural disuse
- environmental gradient analysis
- scale dependent
- soil physical conditions
- volcanic ash soil
- Mt. Aso
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordPredicting species composition in mixed swards by near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) can save labour in grassland research, provided equations are available. This study compares…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- management
- near infrared reflectance spectroscopy
- botanical composition
- Festuca arundinacea Schreb.
- Trifolium repens L.
- calibration
- Merelbeke
- Belgium
- Library Collection RecordBackground: High values of specific leaf area (SLA) are generally associated with high maximal growth rates in resource-rich conditions, such as mesic climates and fertile soils. However, fire may…Publication Date 2011
- chaparral
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- soil fertility
- climate
- ecosystem ecology
- community ecology
- community structure
- community function
- California
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: What is the relative influence of size, connectivity and disturbance history on plant species richness and assemblages of fragmented grasslands? What is the contribution of small fragments…Publication Date 2011
- fragmentation
- Landscape structure
- species assemblages
- species richness
- Tall-tussock grassland
- disturbance
- grasslands
- degradation
- releves
- ecosystem ecology
- Tandilia's Range
- Southern Pampa
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordForage legumes have the potential to contribute substantially to warm-season, subtropical and tropical pastures and rangelands. Compared to grasses, they have advantages in accessing subsoil…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- pastures
- rangelands
- legumes
- forage ecology
- nutrients
- management
- agriculture
- nutritional value
- Library Collection RecordA prominent hypothesis for plant invasions is escape from the inhibitory effects of soil biota. Although the strength of these inhibitory effects, measured as soil feedbacks, has been assessed…Publication Date 2014
- Alien invasive species
- soils
- restoration ecology
- exotic species
- grasslands
- invasion
- natural enemies hypothesis
- negative soil feedback
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- soil biota
- soil pathogens
- North America
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Early detection of emerging invasive plants depends on maximizing the probability of detecting new populations. Repeated surveys along a gradient of environmental conditions or in areas…Publication Date 2014
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- management
- Colonisation
- Emerging invaders
- Goldenrod
- management
- non-native species
- Weed risk assessment
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordPrior to the 1960s, symbiotically fixed nitrogen (N) in forage legumes in most temperate grassland systems was the main input of nitrogen other than that recycled in manures. However, as inorganic N…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- forage quality
- Europe
- North America
- Library Collection RecordQuestions During restoration of bare subsoil, are planted grassland communities with low species richness more susceptible to invasion by non-residents than communities augmented by additional…Publication Date 2013
- diversity
- dominance
- Early Succession
- Elymus virginicus
- evenness
- functional type
- grassland restoration
- invasion resistance
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- species richness
- grasslands
- plant production
- Lexington
- Virginia
- USA
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural intensification is a major driver of biodiversity decline throughout Europe. Agri-environment schemes governed by EU regulation are a significant tool in combating this decline but…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- management
- biodiversity
- agriculture
- policy
- grasslands
- Conservation effectiveness
- Conservation Policy
- Farmland biodiversity
- Management contract
- Spatial conservation prioritization
- Zonation software
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing plant species diversity in grasslands may improve productivity and stability of yields. In a field experiment, we investigated the herbage dry-matter (DM) yield and crude protein content…Publication Date 2014
- plant production
- grasslands
- Dry Matter Yield
- legumes
- management
- fertiliser
- soil fertility
- multispecies mixtures
- cutting
- grazing
- grass-clover
- Trifolium pratense
- Trifolium repens
- Jutland
- Denmark
- Library Collection RecordDespite a good understanding on how dispersal in space structures plant communities in fragmented landscapes, we know little about dispersal in time. Empirical evidence on temporal dispersal - the…Publication Date 2013
- grasslands
- seed banks
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- Diversity partitioning
- Historical ecology
- seed bank
- Semi-natural grassland
- species diversity
- Storage effect
- Lake Mälaren
- central Sweden
- Library Collection Record1. Life table response experiment (LTRE) analyses have been widely used to examine the sources of differences in the long-term deterministic growth rate (r = log ?) of stage-structured populations…Publication Date 2010
- Anthyllis vulneraria
- climate change
- life table response experiment (LTRE)
- population growth
- stochastic elasticities
- vegetation dynamics
- fertility
- plant production
- soil depth
- grasslands
- Library Collection Record1. Models of local stable coexistence require negative feedbacks, i.e. intraspecific interactions must be more negative than interspecific interactions. However, most competition experiments, often…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- community ecology
- seeds
- ecosystem ecology
- Coexistence
- competition
- competitive hierarchy
- facilitation
- germination
- intraspecific vs. interspecific interactions
- plant-soil feedbacks
- Michigan
- USA
- Library Collection RecordMany exotic species have been introduced or have escaped into grasslands where they form "novel ecosystems" of species with no evolutionary history of interaction. Novel ecosystems are…Publication Date 2011
- novel ecosystems
- Alien invasive species
- phenology
- niche partitioning
- Equalizing and stabilizing effects
- plant diversity
- tallgrass prairie
- altered precipitation
- global change
- Eragrostis curvula
- Panicum coloratum
- Sorghum halapense
- Sporobolus compositus
- Panicum virgatum
- Sorghastrum nutans
- grasslands
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- species diversity
- rainfall
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordBackground: The invasion by Pinus elliottii is one of the most serious threats to the remaining native cerrado vegetation in São Paulo State, Brazil, causing biodiversity losses yet to be evaluated…Publication Date 2011
- plant ecology
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- degradation
- ecosystem ecology
- savannah
- Brazil
- South America
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding changes in biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in relation to land-use type and intensity is a major issue in current ecological research. In this context nutrient enrichment has…Publication Date 2011
- Biodiversity exploratories
- fertilization
- grazing
- land use
- mowing
- nitrogen
- nutrient limitation
- phosphorus
- productivity
- agriculture
- pastures
- grasslands
- plant production
- soil nutrients
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural intensification negatively affects farmland biodiversity, and thereby, ecosystem services such as predation of weed seeds. Landscape complexity (large and diverse areas of semi-natural…Publication Date 2011
- Carabids
- ecosystem services
- plant-animal interactions
- Post-dispersal seed predation
- Slugs
- small mammals
- commercial agriculture
- seeds
- biodiversity
- invertebrates
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordGrazing lands in warm-temperate and subtropical North America have become less diverse. Pastures are typically grass monocultures, while rangelands are generally managed for the grass components.…Publication Date 2011
- grazing
- forage quality
- grasslands
- pastures
- rangelands
- restoration ecology
- warm-season legumes
- pasture diversity
- North America
- Library Collection RecordQuestion: Can managing disturbance regimes alone or in combination with seeding native species serve to shift the balance from exotic towards native species? Location: Central coast of California,…Publication Date 2011
- clipping
- Coastal Prairie
- Danthonia californica
- exotic species
- grazing
- mowing
- Plant guilds
- grasslands
- disturbance
- restoration ecology
- releves
- California
- USA
- Library Collection RecordLarge-scale (circa 500 ha) restoration of species-rich dry grasslands was conducted using a high-diversity regional seed mixture in the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere…Publication Date 2013
- grassland restoration
- regional seed mixture
- species diversity
- target species
- vegetation
- restoration ecology
- grasslands
- seeds
- vegetation dynamics
- mowing
- White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve
- Czech Republic
- Central Europe
- Library Collection RecordSavannas are ecosystems characterized by the coexistence of woody species (trees and bushes) and grasses. Given that savanna characteristics are mainly formed from competition, herbivory, fire,…Publication Date 2009
- Spatially explicit
- soil moisture
- Cyclical transition
- Arid
- Mesic
- spatial autocorrelation
- shrub invasion
- Vegetation cycles
- Tree
- Bush
- grasslands
- savanna
- modelling
- vegetation dynamics
- animal impact
- fire ecology
- Soil Condition
- rainfall
- Library Collection RecordBackground: Plants occupying wide altitudinal gradients may be adapted to their altitude of origin. Upward expansion of lowland populations in response to climate change might therefore facilitate…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- temperature
- grasslands
- altitude
- global warming
- Library Collection RecordArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have numerous effects on temperate grassland ecosystems, but prairie restorations are frequently located in sites with depauperate AMF communities. In this…Publication Date 2013
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- dark septate endophytes
- little bluestem
- sand prairie
- smooth brome
- restoration ecology
- soils
- fungi
- grasslands
- land use
- La Crosse
- Wisconsin
- USA