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- Library Collection RecordChanasyk and Naeth quantified grazing effects on soil bulk density and soil strength of sloped areas in the Alberta foothills fescue grasslands. They measured the effects of two grazing intensities…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- soil strength
- bulk density
- fescue grasslands
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, the pre-grazing and post-grazing stubble heights, in rotationally grazed pastures, were modified to determine the effects of stubble height on individual species and total forage…Publication Date 1969
- rotational grazing
- Dactylis glomerata
- Kentucky bluegrass
- Poa pratensis
- grazing
- orchardgrass
- species harvest index
- Library Collection RecordBurrow et al. concluded that a wide mosaic of microhabitat types is needed to sustain healthy densities of Texas horned lizards. The lizards need adequate amounts of bare ground as well as cover…Publication Date 1969
- burning
- grazing
- habitat selection
- Phrynosoma cornutum
- southern Texas
- Texas horned lizard
- 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 RecordBristow et al. looked at the effects of cattle grazing on the habitat selection of Montezuma quail in Arizona. The most important aspect of quail habitat was ample hiding cover followed closely by…Publication Date 1969
- Arizona
- grazing
- cattle
- Cyrtonyx montezumae
- habitat selection
- Madrean evergreen woodland
- Montezuma quail
- Library Collection RecordBremer et al. measured soil surface carbon dioxide flux in an annually-burned Kansas tallgrass prairie to document the effects of clipping at continuous and intensive early-stocking levels, and…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- soil respiration
- carbon budget
- clipping
- grazing strategies
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordIn this 3-year study of the vegetation in 4 livestock exclosures in North Dakota, Brand and Goetz found that the exclosures had greater graminoid leaf heights and greater mulch accumulation than the…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- Bouteloua gracilis
- blue grama
- Carex filifolia
- Carex heliophila
- livestock exclosures
- Sedge
- species composition
- thread-leaf sedge
- Library Collection RecordThe George River caribou herd in Quebec increased in size from the 1960's to the late 1980's before the population decreased to normal levels again in the early 1990's. Disturbances…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- trampling
- aerial photos
- Cladina
- George River caribou herd
- lichen succession
- plant remains
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, long-term exclosures were used to determine the effects of elk (Cervus elaphus) herbivory on soil physical and chemical characteristics in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), aspen (Populus…Publication Date 1969
- leaching
- nitrogen mineralization
- grazing
- Cervus elaphus
- elk
- ungulate grazing
- 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 RecordIn this North Dakota study, Bauer et al. compared organic C, total N, total P, organic P, and inorganic P contents, and bulk density of grazed and nongrazed (relict) grasslands to assess the effect…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- organic matter
- bulk density
- modeling
- nutrient cycling
- organic C
- organic P
- total N
- total P
- Library Collection RecordBallinger and Jones assessed the effects that the absence of grazing can have on three lizard species on the Arapaho Prairie of Nebraska. Cattle were excluded from the study area in 1979 and rapid…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- dense grasses
- habitat requirements
- Holbrookia
- open habitat
- Sceloporus
- Library Collection RecordBaldwin states that because of the experimental advantages that they offer, mechanical simulations of grazing are more commonly used than true herbivory in ecological studies of the impact of…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- herbivory
- clipping
- mechanical herbivory simulations
- plant responses
- Library Collection RecordIn a Kansas tallgrass prairie, sites burned annually in spring and subjected to bison (Bison bison) grazing, over an 8-year period, had greater available light and inorganic nitrogen than similar…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- colonization
- heterogeneity
- species richness
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordHorse grazing in the spring increased winter browse for mule deer in Northern Utah. Horses removed about 50% of the herbaceous biomass, while deer used slightly more than 50% of big sagebrush (…Publication Date 1969
- Artemisia tridentata
- grazing
- reseeding
- big sagebrush
- Chrysothamnus nauseosus albicaulis
- Northern Utah
- rubber rabbitbrush
- winter range
- Library Collection RecordThis study, in Illinois, found that Trillium stem height was positively correlated with the percent of the herbaceous understory that is browsed, which indicates that change in stem height can be a…Publication Date 1969
- indicator species
- Odocoileus virginianus
- grazing
- herbivory
- Deer Management
- local extinction
- Trillium grandiflorum
- understory vegetation
- white-flowered trillium
- Library Collection RecordThis study determined the differences in reproductive biomass and seed production between grazed and ungrazed grasses on the northern winter range in Yellowstone National Park. The authors found…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- Exclosure
- grassland
- literature review
- seed production and yield
- ungulate
- Yellowstone National Park
- Library Collection RecordAmmon and Stacey looked at the long term effects of cattle grazing on riparian habitat for song birds in northwestern Nevada. The authors looked at two 25-30 ha plots, one which had not seen…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- artificial nests
- nest success
- population declines
- riparian birds
- Library Collection RecordAllen and Bartolome studied the impact of grazing by cattle and deer for reduction of shrubs and herbaceous plants on tree plantations established on clearcuts in the Sierra Nevada of California.…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- cattle
- deer
- conifer regeneration
- tree plantations
- Library Collection RecordCurrent disturbance models (predation hypothesis, intermediate-disturbance hypothesis, and the Huston hypothesis) do not adequately account for the wide range of responses by grassland plants…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- herbivory
- evolutionary history of grazing
- grassland community structure
- grazing model
- Huston hypothesis
- intermediate-disturbance hypothesis
- moisture
- predation hypothesis
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