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- Library Collection RecordThe relative importance of breed versus rearing experience on the grazing behaviour and diet selection of beef cattle when grazing unimproved grassland was examined over 4 years. Suckler-reared…Publication Date 2014
- foraging ecology
- cattle
- grazing
- grassland
- management
- Nature conservation
- breed
- rearing experience
- grazing behaviour
- diet preference
- biodiversity
- North Wyke
- Devon UK
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of correcting indigestible neutral detergent fibre (iNDF) for the loss of lignin in predictions of silage organic matter digestibility (OMD).…Publication Date 2014
- silage
- plant nutritive value
- forage quality
- cattle
- sheep
- management
- faecal samples
- grass
- indigestible neutral detergent fibre
- in vivo digestibility
- lignin
- red clover
- Jokioinen
- Finland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Long-term palaeoecological records are needed to test ecological hypotheses involving time, as short-term observations are of insufficient duration to capture natural variability. In this…Publication Date 2013
- Long-term ecology
- Non-analogue communities
- community stability
- Climate–vegetation disequilibrium
- Origin of biodiversity
- biodiversity conservation
- palaeobotany
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- climate change
- human impact
- conservation
- fire
- pollen
- Venezuelan Gran Sabana region
- northern South America
- Library Collection RecordEcosystems have a critical role in regulating climate, and soil, water and air quality, but management to change an ecosystem process in support of one regulating ecosystem service can either provide…Publication Date 2013
- co-benefit
- Ecosystem service
- policy
- regulating service
- trade-off
- cattle
- grazing
- climate change
- soils
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- United Kingdom
- Library Collection RecordThere is a common perception in South Africa that the youth are not interested in agriculture, leading to two concerns: first, that this is exacerbating the youth unemployment crisis, and second,…Publication Date 2013
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- rural areas
- animal production
- Plant Productivity
- policy
- livestock
- communal rangelands
- cattle
- goats
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study focused on investigating the effects of different grazing ratios and stocking rate of cattle and goats under mixed species grazing on different species of plant. The experimental site was…Publication Date 2012
- Mixed-species grazing
- stocking rate
- grazing ratio
- cattle
- goats
- biomass
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn communal areas of NE Zimbabwe, feed resources are collectively managed, with herds grazing on grasslands during the rainy season and mainly on crop residues during the dry season, which creates…Publication Date 2011
- Crop-livestock interactions
- Dynamic modelling
- cattle
- crop residues
- grasslands
- livestock
- foraging ecology
- soil organic carbon
- soil fertility
- management
- communal farming
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: Does vegetation structure display any stability over the grazing season and in two successive years, and is there any correlation between the stability of these spatial patterns and local…Publication Date 2011
- Boolean process
- cattle
- functional diversity
- patch stability
- Semi-variograms
- Spatially explicit model
- stocking rate
- grazing
- cattle
- grassland
- modelling
- releves
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- Massif Central
- France
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: What are the interactive effects of flooding and cattle trampling upon the structural attributes and the floristic composition of a plant community? Do the effects on the plant community…Publication Date 2011
- community structure
- flooding
- Grassland recovery
- grazing
- Lotus tenuis
- trampling
- grassland
- cattle
- management
- Flooding Pampa grasslands
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordThe ReSaKo project undertook extended fieldwork across southern Cameroon to explore the palaeoenvironmental information recorded in the alluvial sediments of equatorial African rivers. 160 hand-…Publication Date 2011
- Alluvial sediments
- Palaeosurfaces
- Equatorial Africa
- West African monsoon
- Late Pleistocene
- Fluvial rain forest refuges
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoil solution nitrogen (N) concentrations in a non-fertilized Japanese lawngrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.; JL, native species) pasture were compared with those in a fertilized tall fescue (Festuca…Publication Date 2011
- grazing
- pastures
- cattle
- soil nutrients
- fertiliser
- Grazed pasture
- soil solution nitrogen
- Zoysia japonica Steud
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordBackground: Numerous Cape Floristic Region (CFR) clades are found in the Afromontane region of Africa, causing speculation on the source of their distribution. The southern Escarpment has been…Publication Date 2011
- data analysis
- montane grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- rainfall
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Ecological edges (zones separating ecosystems or land cover types) can function as active boundaries, unique habitats and dynamic transition zones. Abiotic factors, species and species…Publication Date 2011
- savanna
- ecosystem structure
- Ecosystem function
- edge effects
- grazing
- cattle
- Acacia drepanolobium
- boma
- continuous response function
- Crematogaster
- edge depth
- habitat fragmentation
- multiple edges
- Tetraponera penzigi
- Laikipia
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Abrupt changes and regime shifts are common phenomena in terrestrial ecological records spanning centuries to millennia, thus offering a rich opportunity to study the patterns and drivers of…Publication Date 2011
- palaeobotany
- palaeoecology
- abrupt change
- alternate stable states
- aridity
- climate change
- critical thresholds
- palaeoecology and land-use history
- Quaternary
- regime shifts
- Library Collection Record1. Interactions among plants and their consumers, pollinators and dispersers are central to evolutionary theory, but interactions among plants themselves have received much less attention. Thus…Publication Date 2011
- palaeobotany
- co-evolution
- competition
- evolution
- extended phenotype
- facilitation
- niche
- plant-plant interactions
- selection
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this study were to use the in vitro gas production (IVGP) technique to evaluate the pattern and parameters of anaerobic fermentation of forages from south Texas pastures throughout…Publication Date 2011
- forage quality
- grazing
- cattle
- in vitro
- modelling
- nutrition
- prediction
- simulation
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe main objective of this study was to determine to what extent grazing pressure and timing modulate the seasonal progression of herbage quality in hilly Mediterranean grassland systems. The study…Publication Date 2011
- grazing
- cattle
- fodder quality
- grassland
- management
- rangelands
- sustainablity
- acid detergent fibre
- digestibility
- grazing system
- neutral detergent fibre
- near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy
- protein
- stocking rate
- eastern Galilee
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordThis study was conducted to understand how seasonality in drylands influences the space-time dynamics of cattle behavior and mobility among pastoralist managed Zebu cattle. The study relies on the…Publication Date 2010
- behavior
- cattle
- Cultural ecology
- GPS
- Herd mobility
- pastoralism
- seasonality
- tracking
- zebu
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSome of the earliest evidence for modern human behavior has been recovered from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Archaeological and paleontological sites in the Western Cape are typically…Publication Date 2010
- Modern human behavior
- paleoecology
- Glacial environments
- Middle Stone Age
- Later Stone Age
- palaeobotany
- Western Cape Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordNinety-four sites worldwide have sufficient resolution and dating to document the impact of millennial-scale climate variability on vegetation and fire regimes during the last glacial period.…Publication Date 2010
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- vegetation dynamics
- Library Collection RecordThe most common grass phytoliths from "Zambezian" miombos are described here for the first time. Their potential for long term preservation in sediments makes them a useful tool in the…Publication Date 2010
- Poaceae Phytoliths
- Great African Rift
- Mozambique
- Niassa
- Miombo woodlands
- Paleoenvironment
- discriminant analysis
- principal component analysis
- and Cluster Analysis
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe use of pollen analysis of herbivore middens in arid and semi-arid areas has facilitated palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and interpretation in places where this may otherwise be impossible due…Publication Date 2010
- Fynbos
- Hyrax midden
- palynology
- southern hemisphere
- Stable isotope analysis
- Vegetation history
- winter rainfall zone
- palaeobotany
- palaeoecology
- Western Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relative benefit of different grazing management practices for maintaining grassland biodiversity integrity was assessed. Practices considered were grazing system, stocking rate, animal type,…Publication Date 2010
- analytic heirarchy process
- plant diversity
- stocking rate
- veld condition assessment
- grazing
- management
- biodiversity
- fire
- cattle
- sheep
- Impact assessment
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo reconstruct the response of vegetation to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial we have compiled pollen records from the circum-Atlantic tropics between 23° 176' N and 23° 176…Publication Date 2010
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- South America
- Library Collection RecordIn spite of predictions of communal rangeland collapse due to continuous grazing and increased livestock populations, this grazing system remains prevalent in communal areas, suggesting animals…Publication Date 2010
- cattle
- Graze
- key resource areas
- livestock
- communal farming
- rangelands
- grazing
- plant production
- soils
- soil organic carbon
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouthern African savannas are mixed plant communities where C3 trees co-exist with C4 grasses. Here foliar ?15N and ?13C were used as indicators of nitrogen uptake and of water use efficiency to…Publication Date 2010
- stable isotopes
- soil nitrogen
- soil carbon
- aridity
- C3 plants
- C4 plants
- savanna
- Soil Condition
- grasslands
- water use efficiency
- rainfall
- plant autecology
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSeed ecology may play a role in the widespread increase of Acacia karroo in savanna and grassland. Accordingly, fecundity, predation, mortality by fire, dispersal by livestock, and seed longevity…Publication Date 2010
- dispersal
- fire
- seed bank
- seed lngevity
- seed predation
- seed production
- ecology
- savanna
- grassland
- livestock
- insects
- germination
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- management
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordBurnt daga structures in Iron Age villages serve as proxies for severe drought on the plateau of southern Africa. The distribution of burnt daga remains in two other rainfall areas, KwaZulu-Natal and…Publication Date 2010
- Burnt daga
- Cultural proxies for drought
- El Nino
- Iron age of south-eastern Africa
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- drought
- rainfall
- south-eastern Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Through their effects on plant communities, herbivores can exert strong direct and indirect effects on savanna ecosystems and have the potential to create and maintain savanna landscape…Publication Date 2010
- grazing
- savanna
- herbivores
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- cattle
- game
- cattle - wildlife interactions
- ecological legacies
- facilitation
- foraging behaviour
- landscape heterogeneity
- pastoralism
- plant - herbivore interactions
- rangeland
- succession
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSedimentary charcoal records document changes in fire regime. We have identified 67 sites (30 sites with better than millennial resolution) which have records for some part of the Last Glacial to…Publication Date 2010
- fire ecology
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470609880.ch8.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Hominid Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Resources * Early Hominins: Colonization of New…Publication Date 2010
- exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins
- early hominins - colonization of new environments
- preconditions for encephalization - physiological considerations
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe sediments of Holocene floodplain banks in several river catchments in the southern Cape region, South Africa, were sedimentologically investigated and radiometrically dated. The study resulted in…Publication Date 2010
- Floodplain formation
- fluvial geomorphology
- Environmental change
- palaeobotany
- Gourits River basin
- Cape region
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the seasonally dry tropics the productivity of grazing cattle is often constrained by nutrition, particularly during the dry season. An experiment during 2 annual cycles estimated the diet…Publication Date 2010
- diet selection
- Diet CP
- Diet DM digestibility
- animal nutrition
- animal production
- cattle
- forage quality
- north Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPalynological and sedimentological data from a core extracted from Lake Eteza shed new light on the Holocene vegetation and climate history in KwaZulu-Natal and can be linked to regional and global…Publication Date 2010
- forest reconstruction
- Vegetation history
- southern hemisphere
- African coast
- human impact
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpanning the period from 74-58 160;ka, and being broadly coeval with marine oxygen isotope stage 4 (MIS 4), the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort industries represent important phases in the development…Publication Date 2010
- palaeoenvironment
- Still bay
- Howiesons Poort
- Marine oxygen isotope stage 4
- Modern human behaviour
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA paleo-environmental record covering the last 16 ka (16,000 cal yrs BP) from the eastern areas of the summer rainfall region in South Africa is presented. This area is until now sparsely…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- pollen
- stable isotopes
- palaeobotany
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen and charcoal data generated from a 1469 cm core, radiocarbon dated to 26,430 14C yr BP, recovered from Rumuiku Swamp on the southeast of Mount Kenya, are used to document changes in the…Publication Date 2009
- charcoal
- Holocene
- Last Glacial Maximum
- pollen
- Younger Dryas
- palaeobotany
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPaleoenvironmental records derived from pollen, fungal spores, and microscopic charcoal from Lake Baringo, Kenya, reveal a largely dry environment in the East African region since AD 1650. The dry…Publication Date 2009
- Paleoenvironmental changes
- palynology
- land degradation
- Radiocarbon inversion
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoenvironmental data
- East Africa
- 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 RecordLittle is known about the grass species type, composition and nutritive value in the semiarid savannas that sustain most of Swaziland's cattle population through the seven-month-long dry season…Publication Date 2009
- cumulative gas production
- organic matter degradability
- ruminant livestock
- tropical grass species
- nutrition
- cattle
- grasslands
- savanna
- grazing
- soils
- forage quality
- Swaziland
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe quantified livestock (cattle, shoats, horses and donkeys) losses to lions (Panthera leo) and attitudes to lions, livestock losses and tourism among livestock owners, village residents and tourism…Publication Date 2009
- communities
- cattle
- Benefit
- predation
- compensation
- eco - tourism
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- Botswana
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHuman land use such as pastoralism may be a key determinant of wildlife populations. We studied the influence of land use on wildlife and livestock in south-western Kalahari, Botswana, during the wet…Publication Date 2009
- Carnivore
- distance
- herbivore
- Mammal
- Ostrich
- savanna
- land use
- conservation
- national parks
- livestock
- pastoralism
- cattle
- species richness
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known about the sequence of climate and environmental change in southern Africa during the last glacial period, in spite of the intimations from records, such as Antarctic ice cores and…Publication Date 2009
- Late Pleistocene
- climate variability
- stalagmites
- stable isotopes
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring cattle inflows and outflows over time is a good indicator of herd productivity. In this study, ninety households were monitored for a year to determine the effect of season, rangeland type…Publication Date 2009
- Cattle sales
- Herd dynamics
- Household consumption
- mortality
- cattle
- Economic Aspects
- rangelands
- animal production
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe dietary regimes of 15 ungulate species from the middle Pleistocene levels of the hominid-bearing locality of Elandsfontein, South Africa, are investigated using the mesowear technique. Previous…Publication Date 2009
- Elandsfontein
- Mid-Pleistocene
- ungulates
- Mesowear
- palaeoenvironment
- palaeobotany
- Elandsfontein
- Western Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrimary energy extraction patterns by livestock under agropastoralism and ranching were investigated by the bite count method in semiarid south-eastern Kenya. Sward biomass for optimal energy intake…Publication Date 2009
- agropastoralism
- energy intake
- ranching
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- pastoralism
- diet selection
- grazing
- management
- animal production
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn quantitative phytolith analysis, chance error associated with insufficient counts can affect the robustness of the interpretation, whether it is vegetation reconstruction or taxonomic…Publication Date 2009
- palaeobotany
- Library Collection RecordThis paper documents a continuous ~ 44,000-yr pollen record derived from the Mfabeni Peatland on the Maputaland Coastal Plain. A detailed fossil pollen analysis indicates the existence of extensive…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- Forest history
- Maputaland
- Africa
- pollen
- human impacts
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe palynology of two overlapping Holocene cores from Lake Sibaya in KwaZulu-Natal elucidates the relationship between climate, vegetation and human impact in the region. By means of twenty-one AMS…Publication Date 2008
- palynology
- Vegetation history
- Holocene
- South Africa
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470698716.ch20.abs This chapter contains section titled: * Early Grassland Soils * How did Grasslands Arise? * Evolutionary ProcessesPublication Date 2008
- dry continental interiors
- advent of grasses
- urine-impregnated middens
- plant fossils
- ancient aridland ecosystems
- grasslands
- palaeobotany
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa