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- Library Collection RecordEcological restoration is becoming regarded as a major strategy for increasing the provision of ecosystem services as well as reversing biodiversity losses. Here, we show that restoration projects…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem services
- Library Collection RecordBackground: The invasion by Pinus elliottii is one of the most serious threats to the remaining native cerrado vegetation in São Paulo State, Brazil, causing biodiversity losses yet to be evaluated…Publication Date 2011
- plant ecology
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- degradation
- ecosystem ecology
- savannah
- Brazil
- South America
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- low input agriculture
- Farms
- Intensive farming
- Economic Value
- Library Collection RecordGOVERNMENT NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS No. 2012 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 PUBLICATION OF EXEMPTED ALIEN SPECIES I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister for…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- exempted species
- invasive species
- biodiversity
- Weeds
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural intensification negatively affects farmland biodiversity, and thereby, ecosystem services such as predation of weed seeds. Landscape complexity (large and diverse areas of semi-natural…Publication Date 2011
- Carabids
- ecosystem services
- plant-animal interactions
- Post-dispersal seed predation
- Slugs
- small mammals
- commercial agriculture
- seeds
- biodiversity
- invertebrates
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordAnts are considered an important faunal group for the functioning of arid rangelands, they have a long history of use for environmental monitoring, and exhibit four global patterns in grazing lands…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- Bioindicator
- chenopod shrubland
- disturbance
- Formicidae
- grazing impacts
- Mulga
- piosphere
- Ants
- invertebrates
- rangelands
- monitoring
- grazing
- management
- restoration ecology
- Australia
- 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 RecordPublication Date 2011
- cattle
- Dairy cattle
- dairy farms
- animal feeding
- pastures
- productivity
- efficiency
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- grasslands
- farming systems
- cattle
- agriculture
- roughage
- consumers
- animals
- policies
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- cattle
- Dairy cattle
- dairy farms
- animal feeding
- pastures
- productivity
- efficiency
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 127-131Publication Date 2011
- farming systems
- biodiversity
- meadows
- Nature reserves
- management
- research
- Norway
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- grasslands
- farming systems
- cattle
- agriculture
- roughage
- consumers
- animals
- policies
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordGlobally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity conservation
- South Africa
- Buffalo City
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- degradation
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Conservation scientists are concerned about the apparent lack of impact their research is having on policy. By better aligning research with policy needs, conservation science might become…Publication Date 2011
- 100 questions
- policy issues
- research impact
- research utilization
- science policy
- conservation
- policies
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 82-97Publication Date 2011
- Organic agriculture
- Farms
- plant production
- animal production
- cooperation
- Agricultural products
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- environmental factors
- research
- cooperation
- 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 RecordSuccessful prairie restoration will depend in part on convincing private landowners with agricultural and recreational use goals to implement appropriate rangeland management practices, such as…Publication Date 2010-11-01
- adaptive ecosystem management
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Juniperus virginiana
- landowner attitudes
- prairie restoration
- prescribed burning
- Library Collection RecordLivestock grazing potentially has substantial influence on fuel characteristics in rangelands around the globe. However, information quantifying the impacts of grazing on rangeland fuel…Publication Date 2010-11-01
- artemisia arbuscula
- Artemisia tridentata
- bunchgrass
- cattle
- fire
- fuels management
- wildfire
- wildfire risk
- Library Collection RecordManagement of rangelands has largely operated under the paradigm of minimizing spatially discrete disturbances, often under the objective of reducing inherent heterogeneity within managed ecosystems…Publication Date 2010-11-01
- biodiversity
- fire
- grazing
- landscape ecology
- patch dynamics
- wildlife
- Library Collection RecordAn assessment of nonequilibrium rangeland dynamics was conducted in the Aru basin, a semiarid site located in the very dry northwest part of the Chang Tang Nature Reserve, Tibet, China. A grazing…Publication Date 2010-07-01
- biodiversity
- grazing gradient
- rangeland assessment
- rangeland ecosystem management
- species diversity
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed fire is used to reduce the rate of woody plant encroachment in grassland ecosystems. However, fire is challenging to apply in continuously grazed pastures because of the difficulty in…Publication Date 2010-05-01
- aerial imagery
- brush management
- cattle
- grazing management
- Prosopis glandulosa
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordBeef cattle production from rangelands in the Southern Great Plains has decreased in concert with herbaceous forage production declines in response to woody plant encroachment by honey mesquite (…Publication Date 2010-05-01
- brush management
- cattle
- Prosopis glandulosa
- ranch-style grazing management
- ranching systems
- rangeland restoration
- Library Collection RecordMonoculture and mixed pastures in Florida provide habitat for a variety of resident and migratory bird species. The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of grazing on vegetation…Publication Date 2010-03-01
- abundance
- avian-habitat relationships
- biodiversity
- guild
- heterogeneity
- migratory birds
- vegetation structure
- Library Collection RecordThe Knersvlakte in the Succulent Karoo Biome (South Africa) is known for its high plant diversity and endemism. In the course of establishing a conservation area there, we assessed baseline data for…Publication Date 2010
- Aizoaceae
- biodiversity
- herbivory
- Namaqualand
- rangeland management
- Systematic conservation planning
- conservation
- management
- grazing
- sheep
- goats
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Grazing is one of the key processes in terrestrial ecosystems and this can be provided by both indigenous and domestic ungulates. However, a question remains whether or not traditional forms…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- dung beetles
- grazing
- land use
- indicator species
- livestock
- insects
- management
- conservation
- Vaalbos National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPlant facilitation (positive plant-plant interactions) strongly influences biodiversity, structure, and dynamics in plant communities, and the topic has received considerable attention among…Publication Date 2010
- Arid and semi-arid rangelands
- Habitat modification
- Resource balance hypothesis
- wind erosion
- rainfall
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- erosion
- vegetation dynamics
- biodiversity
- grazing
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordSavannas are the most extensive biome in the tropics. These extremely dynamic coupled socio-ecological ecosystems are shaped by a long history of interaction with humans, fire, climate and wildlife,…Publication Date 2010
- savanna
- biodiversity
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordOf the 70 cases of classical biological control for the protection of nature found in our review, there were fewer projects against insect targets (21) than against invasive plants (49), in part,…Publication Date 2010
- invasive species
- Ecosystem function
- insect pests
- invasive plants
- ecological restoration
- biological control
- natural ecosystems
- Alien invasive species
- insects
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- conservation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordDifferent approaches for the assessment of biodiversity by means of remote sensing were developed over the last decades. A new approach, based on the spectral variation hypothesis, proposes that the…Publication Date 2010
- savanna
- Spectral variation hypothesis
- Shannon index
- species richness
- scale
- hyperspectral
- biodiversity
- remote sensing
- landscape ecology
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA grazing study was conducted on a cold, mountain meadow riparian system in central Idaho in response to cattle grazing-salmonoid fisheries conflicts.Publication Date 2010
- cattle
- grazing intensity
- riparian zones
- Idaho
- United States
- Library Collection RecordTheoretical models predict that the relative importance of facilitation and competition may vary inversely across gradients of abiotic stress. However, these predictions have not been thoroughly…Publication Date 2010
- abiotic stress
- competition
- facilitation
- Herbaceous Species
- Tree
- plant autecology
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- modelling
- North Africa
- 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 RecordThis study aimed to quantify and understand the impact of severe land degradation on plant diversity in part of the Succulent Karoo. Although total number of species declined with heavy grazing,…Publication Date 2010
- disturbance
- Extirpation
- grazing
- local extinction
- Nurse plants
- soil crusts
- degradation
- biodiversity
- species richness
- ecosystem ecology
- landscape ecology
- Succulent karoo
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordRelationships between species richness per plant life form and the soil properties: infiltrability, clay plus silt content, salinity, and pH were investigated at eighteen study sites located in…Publication Date 2010
- clay
- EC
- Infiltrability
- niche
- pH
- silt
- Soil Condition
- species richness
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change is possibly the most highly profiled scientific issue of our time. The projected changes in temperature and rainfall are substantial, as will be the associated impacts on biodiversity…Publication Date 2010
- climate change
- temperature
- rainfall
- biodiversity
- agriculture
- carbon dioxide
- policy
- South 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 RecordIncreasing evidence shows that anthropogenic climate change is affecting biodiversity. Reducing or stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions may slow global warming, but past emissions will continue to…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity hotspot
- climate change risk assessment
- Mediterranean type ecosystem
- species distribution modelling
- modelling
- climate change
- biodiversity
- greenhouse gases
- conservation
- rainfall
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Mediterranean climate regions of Western Australia and South Africa are recognized as global hot spots of diversity. Both are threatened by climate changes that are projected to have significant…Publication Date 2010
- approach
- biodiversity
- guideline
- monitoring
- climate change
- rainfall
- South Africa
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity hot spot
- climate change
- science planning
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Western Australia
- 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 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 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 RecordPatch-mosaic burning (PMB) is commonly advocated to create a mosaic of fire regimes that is believed to be more beneficial for maintaining biodiversity than the relatively homogeneous environment…Publication Date 2010
- conservation areas
- fire ecology
- geographic information systems
- landscape ecology
- biodiversity
- management
- GIS
- Mkuzi Game Reserve
- South Africa
- 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 RecordAfrican savannas are primarily used as pastures and are subject to changes in climate and management strategies. For sustainable management of these landscapes ecological knowledge on seasonal and…Publication Date 2010
- beta diversity
- Distance decay
- Precipitation gradient
- species richness
- Systematic sampling
- Tree islands
- biodiversity
- savanna
- pasture management
- climate
- management
- sustainability
- rainfall
- monitoring
- conservation
- Namibia
- Africa
- 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 RecordSpatial technologies present possibilities for producing frequently updated and accurate habitat maps, which are important in biodiversity conservation. Assemblages of vegetation are equivalent to…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity conservation
- habitat mapping
- remote sensing
- soil fertility
- conservation
- biodiversity
- mapping
- satellite imagery
- national parks
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record1. There is growing concern that the current loss of biodiversity may negatively affect ecosystem functioning and stability. Although it has been shown that species loss may reduce biomass production…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- drought
- ecosystem functioning
- insurance hypothesis
- resilience
- stability
- plant production
- Netherlands
- Library Collection RecordThis paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993 2006…Publication Date 2010
- Central Lowveld
- conservation planning
- development
- land-use change
- conservation
- management
- land use
- rangeland
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordEstablishment of seasonal grazing enclosures has become an important rangeland rehabilitation strategy in semi-arid regions. This study assessed the impact of enclosure age and enclosure management…Publication Date 2010
- cover
- degradation
- Private land ownership
- seed mixtures
- standing crop
- Stock control
- rangelands
- rehabilitation
- animal impact
- communal farming
- biodiversity
- commercial agriculture
- plant production
- monitoring
- Kenya
- Africa
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