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- Library Collection RecordAfter a 3-year study, Ganskopp et al. determined the cumulative effects of grazing on young bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) plants for combinations of winter wildlife use and early- or late-season…Publication Date 1969
- antelope bitterbrush
- Purshia tridentata
- livestock
- big game
- wildlife
- habitat
- shrub
- winter range
- Library Collection RecordGanskopp et al. measured the effects of spring cattle grazing on utilization, trampling, and growth of bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) in pastures with light or heavy stocking rates in southeast…Publication Date 1969
- antelope bitterbrush
- Purshia tridentata
- livestock
- big game
- browse
- habitat
- winter range
- Library Collection RecordIn this review, Edwards looks at the populations of diverse native grass species, that are found in cattle pastures throughout central California, and how many of these areas have been overgrazed,…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- California
- livestock
- browsing
- biodiversity
- competition
- exotic herbaceous species
- native grasses
- paleontological studies
- wildflowers
- Library Collection RecordDrewa and Havstad examined the responses of herbaceous and suffrutescent species to fire, grazing, and presence of Prosopis glandulosa, in a Chihuahuan desert grassland in southcentral New Mexico.…Publication Date 1969
- population dynamics
- livestock
- drought
- black grama
- Bouteloua eriopoda
- diversity
- honey mesquite
- prescribed fires
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Library Collection RecordCollins and Barber measured the effects of grazing, fire, buffalo wallows, and prairie dog towns on grassland plant community dynamics in an area of mixed-grass prairie, in southwestern Oklahoma.…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- Oklahoma
- buffalo wallows
- disturbance
- diversity
- fire
- grassland
- prairie dog town
- Library Collection RecordIn this Colorado study, authors applied a gap dynamics conceptualization of succession to a semiarid grassland, by focusing on gaps produced in the belowground resource space by death of an…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- Aboveground Biomass
- blue grama
- disturbance
- gap dynamics
- simulation model
- succession
- Library Collection RecordIn this Colorado study, Coffin and Lauenroth evaluate the effects of interactions among disturbance characteristics on the successional dynamics of small scale disturbances in shortgrass steppe plant…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- animal burrows
- ant mounds
- disturbance
- grassland
- succession
- Library Collection RecordCoffin and Lauenroth evaluated the effects of spatially-explicit processes on the recovery of Bouteloua gracilis after disturbances using a modification of a gap dynamics simulation model, developed…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- blue grama
- disturbance
- gap dynamics
- grassland
- simulation model
- succession
- Library Collection RecordLesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) disturb aquatic and semi-aquatic plant species while foraging in the saltmarsh regions of La Perouse Bay, on the Hudson Bay coast. The production…Publication Date 1969
- foraging
- Chen caerulescens caerulescens
- clonal reproduction
- disturbance
- lesser snow geese
- saltmarsh graminoids
- vegetative propagules
- Library Collection RecordThe role of cattle in facilitating the ingress and establishment of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) has broader implications with regard to the conversion of grasslands to woodlands. On the site with…Publication Date 1969
- dung
- grazing
- mesquite
- disturbance
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Rio Grande Plains
- succession
- Library Collection RecordBrown and McDonald detect a one-sided presentation of data and opinions on livestock grazing in an issue of Conservation Biology (Fleischner 1994; Noss 1994; Weurthner 1994). Much as been written…Publication Date 1969
- livestock
- grazing
- rangelands
- conservation
- ecosystem processes
- Library Collection RecordBeever et al. examined disturbance created by feral horses (Equus caballus), in 9 mountain ranges of the western Great Basin, USA, in Nevada, using plants, mammals, ants, and soil compaction, as…Publication Date 1969
- Equus caballus
- grazing
- monitoring
- Nevada
- broad spatial scales
- disturbance
- feral horses
- Great Basin
- landscape ecology
- reciprocal averaging
- semiarid ecosystems
- TWINSPAN
- Library Collection RecordDepending on the scale of observation and on the factors that determine animal distribution, grazing patterns may be stronger or weaker than vegetation patterns, or may mirror the spatial structure…Publication Date 1969
- herbivory
- competition
- disturbance
- spatial dependence
- spatial heterogeneity