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- 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 Record1. Climate change will cause changes in average temperature and precipitation as well as increased fluctuations around the mean, yet few studies have considered the impacts of altered climate…Publication Date 2010
- vegetation dynamics
- temperature
- rainfall
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- climate change
- elasticity
- Life History
- matrix models
- mixed-grass prairie
- short-lived perennial
- stochastic demography
- Kansas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The ecogeomorphic processes occurring on semiarid rangelands are reviewed, with emphasis on the source-sink relations and positive feedback loops that existed between shrub patches and…Publication Date 2009
- intershrub areas
- shrubs
- soil resources
- trampling routes
- rangelands
- livestock
- Soil Condition
- grazing
- ecosystem dynamics
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation in drylands is one of the major environmental issues of the 21st century particularly due to its impact on world food security and environmental quality. Climate change, shifts in…Publication Date 2010
- drylands
- Ecogeomorphology
- land degradation
- sediment transport
- Vegetation patterns
- degradation
- climate change
- soil erosion
- vegetation dynamics
- erosion
- land use
- management
- Library Collection Record1. Projection matrices have become the dominant modelling approach in plant demography because they (i) are relatively easy to formulate, (ii) compile complex data in a structured and analytically…Publication Date 2010
- vegetation dynamics
- modelling
- demographic buffering
- integral projection model
- plant demography
- population dynamics
- projection matrix
- stochastic elasticity
- stochastic life table response experiment (SLTRE)
- transient dynamics
- 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 RecordPlant-soil feedbacks is becoming an important concept for explaining vegetation dynamics, the invasiveness of introduced exotic species in new habitats and how terrestrial ecosystems respond to…Publication Date 2013
- vegetation dynamics
- plant-soil interactions
- Alien invasive species
- community dynamics
- succesion
- climate change
- biodiversity
- restoration
- ecosystem services
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- 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 RecordBackground: The presence of plants is crucial in securing steep slopes against soil erosion. Inappropriate land use in mountains often leads to vegetation loss and thus soil degradation. Aims: Here…Publication Date 2011
- soil erosion
- restoration ecology
- degradation
- vegetation dynamics
- species diversity
- drought
- keystone species
- Georgia
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Plant demographers using matrix tools have paid special attention to vital rates of reproduction, growth and survival. The demographic implications of plants regressing in size, or shrinking, have…Publication Date 2010
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- comparative plant demography
- damping ratio
- Life Span
- matrix dimension
- plant shrinkage
- population growth rate (?)
- projection matrix models
- size phenotypic plasticity
- 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 RecordOver the past two decades, the issue of rural women in developing countries has evolved from relative obscurity to a primary concern among the growing community of researchers and policy makers who…Publication Date 2011
- Socio- economic factors
- women participation
- productive projects
- rural women
- Poverty
- Iran
- economics
- livestock
- Iran
- Library Collection Record1. An unresolved question in plant ecology is how the balance between positive and negative interactions changes with environmental conditions. Recently, the debate has been expanded by Brooker…Publication Date 2010
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- competition
- environmental gradients
- facilitation
- indices
- plant interactions
- 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 RecordDespite the widespread recognition that disturbance by livestock affects multiple indices of landscape health, few studies have examined their effects on both biotic and abiotic processes. We…Publication Date 2011
- disturbance
- grazing gradient
- landscape function
- overgrazing
- plant diversity
- reptiles
- grazing
- livestock
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection Record1. Our aim was to explore plant - soil feedback in mixed grassland communities and its significance for plant productivity and community composition relative to abiotic factors of soil type and…Publication Date 2010
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- community ecology
- plant production
- Soil Condition
- soil fertility
- management
- above-ground biomass
- functional groups
- mesocosm
- mesotrophic grassland
- plant community dynamics
- plant - soil feedback
- soil conditioning
- Northumberland
- UK
- Library Collection RecordBackground: In European mountains, where semi-natural grasslands have high cultural and nature conservation value, land-use legacies from past ploughing are associated with distinct floristic…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- conservation ecology
- disturbance
- vegetation dynamics
- species richness
- pasture management
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordMany mechanisms have been suggested to explain the coexistence of woody species and grasses in savannas. However, evidence from field studies and simulation models has been mixed. Patch dynamics is a…Publication Date 2009
- Cyclical succession
- Spatiotemporal scales
- competition
- simulation models
- shrub encroachment
- Mosaic cycles
- Woody Species
- shrubs
- grasses
- savanna
- grasslands
- vegetation dynamics
- ecology
- modelling
- rainfall
- Library Collection RecordQuestions Intensification of livestock production has led to the increasing input of agrochemicals, mostly herbicides, in natural and semi-natural grasslands. Glyphosate application shifts vegetation…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- disturbance
- diversity
- Flooding Pampa grassland
- Floristic Composition
- Herbicide
- livestock
- grasslands
- herbicides
- glyphosphate
- seed banks
- biodiversity
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordNon-random spatial patterns are a common feature of plant communities. However, the mechanisms leading to their formation remain unknown. The clonal dispersal ability of a species, that is, the…Publication Date 2013
- clonal plants
- competitive neighbourhood characteristics
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- O-ring statistics
- phalanx vs. guerilla strategy
- spatial structure
- species interaction
- grassland
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- France
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to clarify whether the changes in percent cover of plant functional types (i.e., life forms and growth forms) along a grazing gradient reflect the livestock number,…Publication Date 2009
- grazing intensity
- plant functional type
- rangeland ecology
- semi-arid
- grazing
- livestock
- management
- sheep
- grasslands
- plant anatomy
- plant autecology
- vegetation dynamics
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection Record1. Chronosequences and associated space-for-time substitutions are an important and often necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development across multiple time-…Publication Date 2010
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- soils
- biodiversity
- species richness
- chronosequences
- disturbance
- plant communities
- retrogression
- soil biological communities
- Soil Development
- succession
- temporal change
- Library Collection RecordRecent interest in the importance of short-term, transient responses in population dynamics has prompted the development of many new methods for describing transient responses in population models.…Publication Date 2013
- amplification
- attenuation
- matrix population models
- plant population and community dynamics
- transient bounds
- vegetation dynamics
- community analysis
- Phytosociology
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding the variation in hereditary symbiont frequency among host populations is a prerequisite to predict symbiont fixation processes. However, the mechanisms driving this variation remain…Publication Date 2013
- environmental heterogeneity
- Epichloë festucae
- fitness differential
- mutualism
- plant population and community dynamics
- symbiont fixation
- vertical transmission
- vegetation dynamics
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordNon-native species with growth forms that are different from the native flora may alter the physical structure of the area they invade, thereby changing the resources available to resident species.…Publication Date 2014
- grassland
- Alien invasive species
- vegetation dynamics
- California grassland
- community-weighted trait mean
- functional traits
- leaf litter
- non-native species impact
- physical structure
- thatch
- California
- Library Collection Record1. We discuss a simple implicit-space model for the competition of trees and grasses in an idealized savanna environment. The model represents patch occupancy dynamics within the habitat and…Publication Date 2010
- modelling
- grasses
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- demographic structure
- fire
- multiple stable states
- savanna
- stable and unstable species coexistence
- stochastic disturbance
- tree seedlings
- Library Collection RecordThe relationship between vegetation and soil erosion deserves attention due to its scientific importance and practical applications. A great deal of information is available about the mechanisms and…Publication Date 2009
- soil erosion
- seed dispersal
- soil seed bank
- plant community
- vegetation distribution
- seed banks
- vegetation dynamics
- degradation
- ecology
- Library Collection RecordGrazing with livestock is a common feature of nature and rangeland management. Although both aim at different, seemingly opposing goals, i.e. maintenance of biodiversity values versus maximization of…Publication Date 2010
- grazing capacity
- model
- Nature conservation management
- forage
- livestock
- forage quality
- conservation
- management
- biodiversity
- animal production
- grazing
- grasslands
- soils
- erosion
- animal nutrition
- Forage Quantity
- modelling
- 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 RecordBackground: There have been few quantitative observations of the attributes of native animal paths and no studies of their variation between vegetation types. These paths may be important in…Publication Date 2010
- Phytosociology
- vegetation dynamics
- data analysis
- species richness
- ecosystem ecology
- animal impact
- Tasmania
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordHerbicides have been applied extensively on rangelands to reduce forbs that were considered undesirable, which has been assumed to lead to an increase in grass production and ultimately to an…Publication Date 2009
- biodiversity
- conservation
- average daily gain
- Cattle Performance
- Great Plains
- competition
- invasive species
- mixed prairie
- plant species composition
- vegetation dynamics
- weed control
- Weeds
- herbicides
- grasslands
- plant production
- animal production
- Oklahoma
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSeasonal dynamics in the vegetation and rumen microbial nitrogen (MBN) production and nutritional status of grazing sheep were investigated in a semiarid rangeland in eastern Rajasthan, India, to…Publication Date 2011
- rangeland
- vegetation dynamics
- grazing
- management
- resource
- nutrition
- Semiarid rangeland
- sheep
- weather discomforts
- Rajasthan
- India
- Library Collection RecordThe outcome of plant-plant interactions depends on environmental (e.g. grazing and climatic conditions) and species-specific attributes (e.g. life strategy and dispersal mode of the species involved…Publication Date 2012
- competition
- diversity
- facilitation
- Open woodland
- Stress-gradient hypothesis
- species richness
- drylands
- grazing
- rainfall
- Species Specificity
- community analysis
- vegetation dynamics
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThresholds and transitions between vegetation states are accepted components of models of rangeland dynamics. By definition, transitions represent changes from one state to another that are enduring…Publication Date 2012
- alternative states
- range monitoring
- state and transition
- vegetation dynamics
- rangelands
- management
- grasslands
- policies
- Library Collection RecordThe relative effects of tree clearing, increased livestock densities and nutrient enrichment have rarely been compared across markedly different organism types, but negative effects are generally…Publication Date 2012
- agriculture
- livestock
- Native Pasture
- nutrient enrichment
- rotational grazing
- woodland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordTo gain insight into the ecological processes driving community reassembly in disturbed ecosystems, we assessed the phylogenetic dispersion of early- and late-successional tree species occurring in…Publication Date 2012
- community assembly
- Costa Rica
- life-history stages of plants
- mortality
- phylogenetic structure
- recruitment
- succession
- vegetation dynamics
- Costa Rica
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of exotic species invasions on biodiversity vary with spatial scale, and documentation of local-scale changes in biodiversity following invasion is generally lacking. Coupling long-term…Publication Date 2012
- grasslands
- community assembly
- competition
- exotic species
- invasion
- livestock grazing
- propagule limitation
- recruitment limitation
- Alien invasive species
- biodiversity
- community ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- monitoring
- California
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe establishment of conservancies and collaborative nature reserves is often promoted without understanding the impact that such initiatives have on the environment, the wildlife and landowners.…Publication Date 2012
- nature reserve
- management
- game
- livestock
- agriculture
- land use
- conservation
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThe new African National Congress government announced after 1994 that municipal commonage would be a pillar of their land reform programme. The Department of Land Affairs spearheaded this by…Publication Date 2009
- Direct-use value of livestock
- Livelihoods
- Local government
- Municipal commonage
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- common land
- income
- land reform
- landownership
- Livestock farming
- Local government
- productivity
- rural economy
- stakeholder
- subsistence agriculture
- policies
- legislation
- livestock
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,†begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And it's happening to about two-thirds of the world’s grasslands,…Publication Date 2013
- global warming
- climate change
- grasslands
- desertification
- livestock
- subsistence arming
- rural areas
- socio-economic aspects
- degradation
- restoration ecology
- revegetation
- system ecology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Ngorongoro Crater is a volcanic caldera located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. The Crater comprises a flat grassland plain surrounded by steep, bushy walls. It contains…Publication Date 2006
- grasslands
- conservation
- cattle
- fire ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- monitoring
- vegetation dynamics
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of livestock type (cattle-to-sheep ratio) and stocking rate on grassland species richness and vegetation composition were tested using two long-term trials in Highland Sourveld Grassland…Publication Date 2007
- grasslands
- grazing
- South Africa
- KwaZulu - Natal
- plant diversity
- grazing
- environmental aspects
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- stocking rates
- grassland
- species richness
- fire
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issue on CD-ROMPublication Date 2006
- rangeland management
- pasture management
- Economic Aspects
- vegetation dynamics
- pastoralism
- animal production
- southern 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 RecordSound understanding of the influence of scale and context on ecological patternprocess relationships is lacking in many systems. The hierarchical patch dynamics paradigm (HPDP) provides a framework…Publication Date 2008
- vegetation dynamics
- savanna
- riparian ecology
- South Africa
- Kruger National Park
- Savanna ecology
- spatial ecology
- management
- woody plants
- indigenous encroaching shrubs
- modelling
- southern Africa
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