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- Library Collection RecordKikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum)–ryegrass (Lolium spp.) cultivated pastures form the base for dairy production in the southern Cape region of South Africa. The impact of various methods and…Publication Date 2014
- pasture management
- plant production
- Ryegrass
- kikuyu
- soil disturbance
- herbicides
- tillage
- southern Cape region
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study assesses how climate impacts on agriculture may change the evolution of the agricultural and energy systems in meeting the end-of-century radiative forcing targets of the representative…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- agriculture
- bioenergy
- greenhouse gases
- plant production
- integrated assessment
- climate impacts
- emissions mitigation
- representative concentration pathways
- Library Collection RecordExperiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of combined water salinity and deficit irrigation on common bermudagrass in order to address the shortage of water resources and increasing water…Publication Date 2014
- Antioxidant
- Common bermudagrass
- Deficit irrigation
- Turfgrass
- Water salinity
- irrigation
- pastures
- plant production
- Shiraz
- Iran
- 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 RecordResearch to study the effect of cover crop sowing rate, row spacing and cultivar on establishment of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.)-based pastures in a semi-arid zone mixed-farming system was…Publication Date 2014
- Lucerne
- plant production
- rainfall
- pasture
- management
- undersow
- nurse crop
- alfalfa
- forage
- companion crop
- Austrailia
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of summer-to-winter simulated grazing management factors, namely defoliation interval (INT: 21, 42, 56 or 84 d), defoliation height (DH: 2·7, 3·6, 5·3 or 6·0 cm) and final defoliation…Publication Date 2014
- grazing
- management
- plant production
- fodder production
- pastures
- white clover
- perennial ryegrass
- defoliation
- Interval
- height
- closing date
- Ireland
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the effects of high biomass yielding winter cover crops, namely grazing vetch (Vicia dasycarpa L.) and oats (Avena sativa L.), on soil phosphorus (P) availability in low fertiliser…Publication Date 2014
- biomass
- pastures
- crops
- phosphorus
- soil nutrients
- plant production
- fertilizer
- Eastern Cape Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study, which was part of a larger grazing-systems experiment, was to investigate the cumulative impact of three levels of grazing intensity on sward production, utilization and…Publication Date 2014
- grazing
- management
- cows
- dry matter
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- post-grazing sward height
- tiller density
- rejected area
- leaf yield
- Lolium perenne
- Ireland
- Co. Cork
- Ireland
- Library Collection RecordPoor irrigation management in pastures can lead to yield and quality reduction as well as loss of income through extra pumping and leaching of nitrate fertiliser. A number of irrigation scheduling…Publication Date 2014
- irrigation
- management
- pastures
- fertiliser
- plant production
- weather
- Ryegrass
- soil water
- plant production
- water dynamics
- nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordVetch species (Vicia narbonensis, V. sativa and V. villosa) are widely used for fodder production in Tunisia. This study aims to investigate vetch strategies involved in drought resistance through…Publication Date 2014
- drought
- Fodder
- management
- plant production
- water stress
- vetch species
- growth
- water relations
- stomatal conductance
- proline
- Tunisia
- Africa
- 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 RecordA quantitative description of woody plant communities that aimed at aiding studies on grass–tree competition interactions, bush encroachment and estimation of food to browser herbivore species, was…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- competition
- grasses
- browse
- fodder production
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBrowsing herbivores are generally highly selective feeders, selecting for new shoots and young plant material. Determinations of browser carrying capacity are then greatly inflated when based on…Publication Date 2014
- savanna
- browsing
- grazing
- game
- wildlife
- conservation
- carrying capacity
- climate
- soil
- rainfall
- modelling
- plant production
- management
- Zululand region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn a 3-year experiment, we compared the fertilizer efficiency of sigmoidal releasing-type coated urea (CUS) and linear releasing-type coated urea (CUL) to that of readily available urea (RU). CUS and…Publication Date 2014
- fertiliser
- plant production
- pasture
- managementCoated urea
- herbage
- releasing-type
- seasonal herbage productivity
- single application
- Miyota
- Nagano
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordThe well-described pattern of a few common and many rare species in plant communities (dominance-diversity curves) also has been documented within populations of dominant plant species. Understanding…Publication Date 2014
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- community dynamics
- genotypes
- competition
- Andropogon gerardii
- competition
- genotype richness
- grassland
- intergenotypic competition
- intragenotypic competition
- light
- neighborhood effects
- nitrogen
- water
- USA
- Library Collection RecordOxidative stress caused by drought stress is a major limiting factor for grass cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions. In order to investigate the effect of nitric oxide (NO) donors on drought…Publication Date 2014
- Nitric oxide donors
- Oxidative stress
- drought
- Antioxidant enzymes
- Turfgrasses
- pastures
- drought
- plant production
- Shiraz
- Iran
- 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 RecordQuestions What is the best way to identify plant indicators for monitoring the responses of semi-natural grassland communities to various management practices (i.e. burning, burning and mowing,…Publication Date 2013
- burning
- Dispersal mode
- disturbance
- Flowering season
- Functional composition
- grazing
- Indicator species analysis
- mowing
- Non-metric multidimensional scaling
- plant functional groups
- plant height
- moonitoring
- management
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- plant production
- Mt. Aso
- Kumamoto Prefecture
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Quantifying the association of plant functional traits to environmental gradients is a promising approach for understanding and projecting community responses to land use and climatic…Publication Date 2013
- connectivity
- Drought-stress
- Habitat filtering
- limiting similarity
- Null models
- plant height
- Seed mass
- Seed number
- Specific leaf area (SLA)
- plant functional traits
- land use
- climate
- ecosystem ecology
- drought
- plant production
- Southern Judean Lowlands
- Israel
- 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 RecordQuestion How is the magnitude and seasonality of carbon uptake affected by the replacement of native grasslands by eucalyptus plantations? Location RÃo de la Plata Grasslands in Argentina and…Publication Date 2013
- ANPP
- land-use change
- MODIS
- NDVI
- RÃo de la Plata Grasslands
- tree plantations
- grasslands
- restoration ecology
- carbon sequestration
- rainfall
- plant production
- land use
- global warming
- management
- Argentina
- Uruguay
- Library Collection RecordLarge areas of alpine pastures and meadows currently face declining land use or abandonment, which leads to tall-grass transition ecosystems with higher leaf area index (LAI), potentially increased…Publication Date 2013
- land use
- soil moisture
- runoff
- grassland
- grazing
- plant production
- carbon dioxide
- Economic Aspects
- Swiss Alps
- 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 RecordWildfires can have significant impacts on rangeland productivity and functionality causing substantial economic losses to affected farmers. In August 2011, such wildfires swept through the North West…Publication Date 2013
- fire ecology
- rangelands
- plant production
- management
- grazing
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- grazing capacity
- erosion
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Africa
- 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 RecordPlant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade-off possibilities. The competition-defence hypothesis posits a trade-off between…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- Coexistence
- competition-defence hypothesis
- Life History
- mammalian herbivory
- Nutrient Network (NutNet)
- resource limitation
- tolerance
- top-down bottom-up
- trade-offs
- plant production
- fertilisers
- management
- nutrients
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- 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 RecordClimate change impacts on agriculture could arguably be most critical for developing countries in tropical regions: their populations rely importantly on agriculture and climate-dependant resources,…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- agriculture
- impacts
- tropics
- C4 crops
- plant production
- precipitation
- modelling
- subsistence agriculture
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFicus thonningii is a multipurpose browse tree in northern Ethiopia. Despite its importance, techniques for quantifying its browsable biomass have not been developed. To develop best-estimation…Publication Date 2012
- allometry
- indigenous fodder trees
- Tigray
- modelling
- plant production
- forage quality
- foraging ecology
- North Africa
- Ethiopia
- Library Collection RecordBiomass is considered a potential feedstock for many renewable energy production systems and interest especially in grass production has increased markedly in the last two decades. The present work…Publication Date 2012
- biomass
- grass
- harvesting
- yield
- Rate
- storage
- quality
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- 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 RecordAnnual estimates and seasonal patterns of gross nitrogen turnover in terrestrial soils are poorly understood due to the lack of experimental evidence. Based on year round sampling in wintergrazed and…Publication Date 2012
- annual nitrogen budget
- drying-rewetting
- freeze-thaw
- microbial biomass
- nitrification
- N mineralization
- steppe
- ecosystem ecology
- soils
- grazing
- plant production
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordForage-based dairy and livestock production is the backbone of agriculture in Northern Europe in economic terms. Changes in growing conditions that affect forage grass yield may have great economic…Publication Date 2012
- climatic variability
- Frost damage
- Grass modelling
- Ice damage
- Multi-model ensemble
- climate change
- pasture management
- plant production
- forage quality
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordPastoral-based animal production systems are under increasing pressure to provide the high quantity and quality of feed needed for optimal ruminant performance. The capacity of farmers to increase…Publication Date 2011
- pasture
- greenhouse gases
- management
- plant production
- forage breeding
- fitness
- pasture persistence
- trait expression
- respiration
- cultivar evaluation
- forage quality
- breeding targets
- WSC
- environmental impact
- New Zealand
- 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 RecordWe assessed the impact of Prosopis invasion and clearing on the grazing capacity of heavily grazed Nama Karoo rangeland in the Beaufort West district of the Western Cape province of South Africa.…Publication Date 2011
- exotic invasive plants
- management
- natural resources
- rangeland condition
- rehabilitation
- alien invasive plants
- grazing
- plant production
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- Nama Karoo
- South Africa
- 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 aimed to estimate green herbage biomass (GBM) and crude protein (CP) concentrations of a mixed-sown pasture in Hokkaido, Japan using ground based hyperspectral measurements and…Publication Date 2011
- plant production
- fodder quality
- pastures
- management
- grazing
- geostatistical analysis
- herbage biomass
- Herbage Quality
- hyperspectral measurement
- mapping
- Hokkaido
- Japan
- 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 RecordWarm-season pasture residue may create problems for no-till overseeding with cool-season grasses in the USA Southern Plains. Removal of residue to facilitate overseeding, however, represents…Publication Date 2011
- plant production
- no-till
- pasture management
- oversowing
- Italian Ryegrass
- Festuca spp
- Herbage Yield
- temperature
- winter damage
- Southern Plains
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: What are the patterns of remotely sensed vegetation phenology, including their inter-annual variability, across South Africa? What are the phenological attributes that contribute most to…Publication Date 2011
- Phytosociology
- AVHRR
- Biomes
- NDVI
- net primary production
- phenology
- Regression tree
- vegetation mapping
- mapping
- remote sensing
- plant production
- rainfall
- diversity
- South Africa
- 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 RecordSmooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.), meadow bromegrass (Bromus riparius Rehm.) and hybrid bromegrass (B. riparius x B. inermis) are widely used for hay and pasture in temperate regions of the…Publication Date 2011
- pastures
- plant production
- management
- plant physiology
- grasses
- Bromegrass
- defoliation
- etiolated regrowth
- remobilization of stored reserves
- Saskatoon
- Canada
- Library Collection RecordAn important issue in plant ecology is the extent to which functional traits that explain patterns at one organizational level serve as explanatory variables at higher levels, while a related subject…Publication Date 2011
- plant traits
- Individual level
- Population level
- Abandonment
- mowing
- Meadow
- ecosystem ecology
- plant functional traits
- mowing
- simulated grazing
- plant production
- pastures
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordThe ability to survive harsh winters is one of the primary factors limiting bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) distribution, especially those used for forage. Consequently, improved stress tolerance has…Publication Date 2011
- forage quality
- plant production
- temperature
- cold hardiness
- Cynodon
- temperature stress
- Library Collection RecordOverseeded winter annuals in bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] improve annual dry-matter (DM) yield and capture nutrients in fields receiving manure application. This study determined the…Publication Date 2011
- Dry Matter Yield
- pastures
- plant production
- drought
- fertiliser
- annual ryegrass
- Bermudagrass
- berseem clover
- cereal rye
- fertilization
- manure
- nitrogen
- Mississippi
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Recent theoretical studies suggest that the stability of ecosystem processes is not governed by diversity per se, but by multitrophic interactions in complex communities. However, experimental…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- invertebrates
- above- and below-ground interrelationships
- biodiversity loss
- biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship
- earthworms
- herbivore insects
- Jena Experiment
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- variability
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordThe savannah of central Brazil occupies 208 million ha, of which about 54 million ha have been converted to cultivated pasture. The aim of this study was to provide the dynamics of evapotranspiration…Publication Date 2011
- savanna
- pasture
- evapotranspiration
- rainfall
- plant production
- Brachiaria brizantha
- Cerrado biome
- eddy covariance
- decoupling factor
- Brazil
- South America
- Library Collection RecordThe study area was located in the central Free State Grassland biome, but the vegetation partially represented riparian thicket. Leaf carriage patterns of deciduous species were determined from…Publication Date 2011
- foraging ecology
- leaf budding
- leafless period
- mixed feeder
- seasonal changes
- senescing leaves
- rainfall
- temperature
- game
- foraging ecology
- Forage Quantity
- forage quality
- stocking rates
- plant production
- Wag-‘n-Bietjie Private Nature Reserve
- South 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