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- Library Collection RecordLong-term effects of stocking rate and grazing system on livestock gains were assessed in the northern mixed-grass prairie at the USDA Agriculture High Plains Grassland Research Station in…Publication Date 1969
- continuous grazing
- rotational grazing
- stocking rate
- average daily gain
- grazing pressure
- short-duration grazing
- spring precipitation
- Library Collection RecordLong-term effects of stocking rate and grazing system on livestock gains were assessed in the northern mixed-grass prairie at the USDA Agriculture High Plains Grassland Research Station in…Publication Date 1969
- continuous grazing
- rotational grazing
- stocking rate
- average daily gain
- grazing pressure
- short-duration grazing
- spring precipitation
- Library Collection RecordReduction of amphibian populations was investigated by looking at 40 ponds in the agricultural region of southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and southwestern Wisconsin to determine what…Publication Date 1969
- agriculture
- fish
- landscape
- nitrogen
- water quality
- agricultural pond
- amphibian
- Driftless Area Ecoregion
- farm pond
- habitat management
- livestock grazing
- stock pond
- Library Collection RecordSimulation model (Simple Ecological Sustainability Simulator- SESS) representing a hypothetical 100ha ranch in northern Mexico, southern TX, was used to determine ecological and economic consequences…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- sustainability
- prescribed fire
- ranching systems
- range condition
- semi-arid
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of grazing and drought on runoff, erosion, and nutrient transport were measured over three years with 12, 50 m² lysimeters on native grassland near Miles City, Montana on the Fort…Publication Date 1969
- erosion
- nutrient transport
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- Great Plains
- lysimeter
- nutrient yield
- sediment yield
- Library Collection RecordThis is a literature review of 47 published scientific articles examining management strategies to obtain even cattle distribution and use of mountainous riparian meadows in the Pacific Northwest.Publication Date 1969
- shade
- stocking rate
- management
- grazing distribution
- offstream water
- rangeland slope
- riparian areas
- salt supplements
- Library Collection RecordLong-term production and profitability of grazing on northern mixed-grass prairie using yearling steers on rangelands of three land condition classes (low-far, good and excellent), and actual…Publication Date 1969
- profit
- stocking rate
- livestock grazing
- Range Conditions
- variable stocking
- Library Collection RecordRange condition, vegetation production, composition, and cover were compared between lightly and moderately grazed rangelands in the Chihuahuan Desert in southwestern New Mexico to determine if these…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- livestock
- range management
- utilization
- arid lands
- range condition
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordA four year study evaluated pairing goat grazing and herbicide control (picloram plus 2,4-D) as a better long term control leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) infestations than either treatment alone.…Publication Date 1969
- density
- stocking rate
- picloram
- Euphorbia esula
- grazing
- integrated weed management
- rangeland weed control
- Library Collection RecordIn a three year study, Gauthier et al. studied the response of sedges and grasses on Bylot Island to summer grazing by greater snow geese (Chen caerulescens atlantica). Study sites were selected on…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- Arctic
- Dupontia fisheri
- Eriophorum scheuchzeri
- grass
- polygon fens
- Sedge
- Library Collection RecordWood et al. measure infiltration and sediment production under two grazing techniques: 1, by doubling the stocking rate on rangeland fertilized by nitrogen, and 2) conventional stocking on…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- runoff
- nitrogen
- urea
- Infiltration Capacity
- Infiltrometer
- microtopography
- soil bulk density
- Library Collection RecordWood et al. sampled infiltration rates and runoff water quality on range units grazed by cattle under year-long continuous, seasonal continuous, or no grazing in Louisiana. There was no significant…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- grazing
- interrill erosion
- sediment loss
- Library Collection RecordLesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) graze heavily on the salt marshes at La Perouse Bay, Manitoba, causing severe vegetational damage in some areas, resulting in hypersaline soils…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- salinity
- temperature
- grubbing
- Hudson Bay Lowlands
- lesser snow geese
- Library Collection RecordWhite et al. measured the vegetative responses of a New Mexico blue grama rangeland to heavily stocked, short-duration grazing and moderately stocked, continuous grazing. In general, total produced…Publication Date 1969
- primary production
- defoliation
- Bouteloua gracilis
- stocking rate
- blue grama
- grazing system
- Library Collection RecordWeltz and Wood examined the influence of short-duration grazing, continuous grazing, and exclusion from grazing on soil erosion, in terms of sediment concentration and total suspended sediment…Publication Date 1969
- continuous grazing
- soil erosion
- stocking rate
- plant biomass
- sediment production
- short duration grazing
- Library Collection RecordWeiss examined the role of livestock in maintaining nutrient-poor serpentine soil grasslands in California as suitable habitat for the threatened bay checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas cditya baycnsis…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- grasslands
- grazing
- butterfly populations
- plant growth
- Library Collection RecordVolesky et al. measured animal performance and vegetation response to 3 different grazing systems (frontal, continuous, and rotational) with varying stocking rates. The frontal grazing system…Publication Date 1969
- Bothriochloa ischaemum
- stocking rate
- grazing management
- animal production
- Plains Old World bluestem
- steer performance
- Library Collection RecordPrevious research suggests that soil bulk density can affect infiltration rate, runoff, erosion and growth of plants. In this study, Van Haveren determined soil bulk density on fine and coarse…Publication Date 1969
- soil texture
- stocking rate
- compaction
- hoof action
- hydrologic characteristics
- Infiltration Rate
- Library Collection RecordThe suitability of tall wheatgrass (Agropyron elongatum) as an early spring to late summer cattle forage was determined by exposing this plant to different clipping frequencies and measuring it'…Publication Date 1969
- Agropyron elongatum
- nitrogen
- potassium
- calcium
- magnesium
- grazing management
- forage yield
- phosphorous
- Library Collection RecordTurner et al. hypothesized that overcompensation most likely occurs in previously ungrazed tallgrass prairie as a result of stored photosynthate. In a 3-year experiment, the authors found that…Publication Date 1969
- history
- mowing
- nitrogen
- aboveground and belowground biomass
- cattle grazing
- defoliation intensity
- frequency
- Konza Prairie Research National Area
- maximization of production
- overcompensation
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordChanges in vegetation were measured over six years in pastures exposed to different grazing systems and stocking rates on the Edwards Plateau of Texas. In general the moderate continuously grazed…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- Aboveground Biomass
- bunchgrass
- grazing system
- sodgrass
- species composition
- vegetation community structure
- vegetation cover
- Library Collection RecordThis study was conducted on two sites in Pennsylvania to measure NO3-N leaching loss from spring-, summer-, and fall-applied urine and summer applied feces beneath N-fertilized orchardgrass (Dactyls…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- urine
- feces
- Dactyls glomerata
- management intensive grazing
- NO3-N leaching
- northeast United States
- orchardgrass
- soil water storage capacity
- Library Collection RecordStout et al. used experimental data from the northeast U.S. and the literature to assess the relationships between stocking rate and nitrate leaching losses beneath an intensively grazed pasture. A…Publication Date 1969
- leaching
- water quality
- grazing management
- stocking rate
- Nitrate
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, soil bulk density was compared among winter feeding pastures that were not used by cattle and those that were grazed and trampled by cattle at normal and very heavy stocking rates.…Publication Date 1969
- soil compaction
- stocking rate
- infiltration
- cattle trampling
- recovery
- soil bulk density
- Library Collection RecordSteinauer and Collins examined the influence of one and two applications of simulated bovine urine on vegetation structure on tallgrass prairie either every 2 or 4 years at Konza Prairie Research…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- alpha diversity
- beta diversity
- clipping
- sandhills prairie
- simulated bovine urine
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordThis study assessed effects of voles (Microtus) on nitrogen dynamics using exclosures in two riparian meadows (Crystal Bench and Blacktail Deer Creek), in Yellowstone National Park. Results showed…Publication Date 1969
- herbivory
- legumes
- voles
- Microtus
- mineralization
- nitrogen
- plant litter
- soil organic matter
- Trifolium
- nitrogen cycling
- potentially mineralizable
- riparian
- Yellowstone National Park
- Library Collection RecordFollowing 40 years of rest, Wyoming mixed grass prairie grazed at light and heavy intensities for 12 years had significantly greater carbon and nitrogen in the root zone of the soil profile than an…Publication Date 1969
- carbon
- nitrogen
- rangelands
- C and N balance
- mixed-grass prairie
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of elk (Cervus elaphus) browsing on plant growth and nitrogen (N) cycling were measured in short willow and tall willow (Salix spp.), aspen (Populus tremuloides), and upland grass/shrub…Publication Date 1969
- Cervus elaphus
- mineralization
- nitrogen
- overgrazing
- plant production
- willow
- elk
- elk herbivory
- overabundance
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Salix spp.
- Library Collection RecordA grazing study initiated in 1983 on the Santa Rita Experimental Range in Arizona, provided an opportunity to evaluate cattle grazing patterns on Lehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana) dominated…Publication Date 1969
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- stocking rate
- intensity
- Lehmann lovegrass
- patchiness
- regrowth potential
- repeated defoliation
- Library Collection RecordNitrogen losses and cycling due to goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) grazing and fecal deposition were measured by Ruess et al, on the La Perouse Bay, where large flocks of geese graze each year…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- Ammonia Volatilization
- Chen caerulescens caerulescens
- forage quality
- lesser snow goose
- nutrient cycling
- Library Collection RecordThis study was initiated to determine if herbivores increase or decrease the rate of nutrient cycling in oak savanna plant communities. Plant communities inside of exclosures had more above-ground…Publication Date 1969
- legumes
- herbivores
- nitrogen
- plants
- positive feedback
- savanna
- Library Collection RecordRatliff and Westfall examined the responses of Nebraska sedge (Carex nebraskensis) to protection and grazing. The study took place in Tule Meadow, in the Sierra National Forest, California where…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- protection
- nitrogen
- carex nebraskensis
- clipping
- forage species
- phosphorous
- shoot density
- shoot frequency
- Library Collection RecordRaillard and Svoboda investigated the clipping on a natural stand of Carex aquatilis var. stans in Sverdrup Pass, Ellesmere Island, in the province of Nunavut, Canada. The authors subjected plots of…Publication Date 1969
- carbon
- nitrogen
- biomass production
- C/N ratio
- net primary production
- simulated grazing
- Library Collection RecordPolley and Detling collected western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii) from a heavily grazed area in South Dakota, colonized by black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), and from an adjacent…Publication Date 1969
- Agropyron smithii
- nitrogen
- biomass yield
- black-tailed prairie dog
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- western wheatgrass
- Library Collection RecordShort-duration grazing studies have only recently been done on arid and semiarid rangelands. The benefits of short-duration grazing will be most evident in grazing situations characterized by…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- arid/semi-arid rangeland
- biological crusts
- livestock distribution
- short-duration grazing
- Water Infiltration
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, Phillips et al. determined the affects of short-duration, high intensity grazing, during different grazing intervals, on the nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and in-vitrodry- matter…Publication Date 1969
- nitrogen
- Carex aquatilis
- in-vitro dry-matter digestibility
- phosphorous
- planeleaf willow
- salix planifolia
- water sedge
- Library Collection RecordOwensby et al. examined the effects of increasing the stocking rate on intensive-early stocked pastures, in the Flint Hills of Kansas, by applying stocking rates that were 2, 2.5, and 3 times the…Publication Date 1969
- Andropogon gerardii
- Andropogon scoparius
- stocking rate
- big bluestem
- grazing system
- little bluestem
- livestock gain
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordNitrogen and phosphorous losses from manure and fertilizers were modeled for dairy farms, with different stocking densities and fertilizer rates, to determine combinations that could reduce water…Publication Date 1969
- stocking density
- nitrogen
- economics
- manure
- nutrient losses
- phosphorous
- Library Collection RecordNeff et al. studied three sites (one that was never grazed and two that were historically grazed), in southwestern Utah. Their results show that erosion of nutrient-rich soil fine materials results…Publication Date 1969
- carbon
- erosion
- grazing
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- soil
- Utah
- Arid
- desert
- soil crust
- Library Collection RecordUngrazed, lightly grazed, and heavily grazed intensity treatments for 50 years, in short-grass steppe of Colorado, were assessed in terms of forage nitrogen concentrations, nitrogen yields, and in…Publication Date 1969
- defoliation
- precipitation
- nitrogen
- grazing history
- Grazing Intensities
- nutritional quality
- Library Collection RecordCottonwood (Populus fremontii, P. angustifolia) resprout growth had twice the amount of defensive chemicals after beavers (Castor canadensis) cut the trees compared to regular juvenile growth. Leaf…Publication Date 1969
- Populus fremontii
- nitrogen
- Castor canadensis
- Chrysomela confluens
- cottonwood
- defensive chemicals
- Leaf beetles
- phenolic glycosides
- populus angustifolia
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, Mapfumo et al. measured soil response to three grazing intensities (light, moderate, and heavy) in pastures that were seeded with annual (Triticosecale, Triticosecale and Hordeum…Publication Date 1969
- carbon
- electrical conductivity
- nitrogen
- potassium
- soil pH
- Library Collection RecordLoft et al. concluded that heavy stocking rates, which are considerably higher than federal recommendation, cause negative effects in deer habitat preference during their fawning season. Cattle seem…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- competition
- corn lilies
- cover
- Library Collection RecordLoft et al. looked at the interaction of cattle and mule deer and the accompanied effects on mule deer home range in the Sierra Nevada's of California. The presence of cattle never removed mule…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- competition
- habitat requirements
- home range
- Library Collection RecordKarn et al. compared animal gains, and forage production and utilization at two stocking rates (moderate and heavy) on flat and rolling native grasslands with seeded smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis…Publication Date 1969
- crested wheatgrass
- Agropyron desertorum
- Bromus inermis
- stocking rate
- animal gains
- native rangelands
- Pascopyrum smithii
- smooth bromegrass
- western wheatgrass
- Library Collection RecordJung and Sahlu determined the effects of sheep grazing at two different stocking rates on available forage, forage quality, diet quality, and animal intake and weight gain. Forage quality declined…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- selective grazing
- Bromus inermis
- animal gains
- diet composition
- diet quality
- intake
- smooth bromegrass
- Library Collection RecordHuffaker and Cooper have presented a model linking privately optimal annual stocking rates to their long-term impact on the succession of plant species on rangeland. The underlying motivation is the…Publication Date 1969
- environment
- plant succession
- stocking rate
- rangeland
- slow dynamics
- threshold analysis
- Library Collection RecordHudson and Nietfeld looked at the effects of late-summer elk foraging rates on a mature, grass-dominant vegetation stand. Four elk were contained in a 0.15 ha plot for a 7 day period, where bite/min…Publication Date 1969
- biomass
- stocking rate
- bite rate
- boreal grasslands
- foraging time
- Library Collection RecordHerbaceous production, utilization, percent cover and species composition were compared for three grazing systems (continuous, rotationally deferred, short-duration rotation) at two stocking rates (…Publication Date 1969
- continuous grazing
- stocking rate
- range condition
- rotationally deferred grazing
- Savory Grazing Method
- short-duration rotation grazing
- Library Collection RecordHart et al. determined that cattle and elk appear to have very little habitat over lap, based on the soil types and slope/aspect of the areas where they were observed. Cattle seemed to spend most of…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- cattle-elk competition
- range sites