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- 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 RecordPublication Date 2011
- cattle
- Dairy cattle
- dairy farms
- animal feeding
- pastures
- productivity
- efficiency
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- cattle
- Dairy cattle
- dairy farms
- animal feeding
- pastures
- productivity
- efficiency
- 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
- Library Collection RecordThesis by Shaniko Nichol-Driskill concerning Livestock, Native Plants, Fire and other subjectsPublication Date 2011
- livestock
- Indigenous organisms
- fire ecology
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 62-81Publication Date 2011
- cattle
- horses
- grazing
- cooperation
- models
- farmers
- floodplains
- Nature reserves
- Nature conservation
- economic situation
- research
- cooperation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- ruminants
- cattle
- feeding
- grazing
- rumination
- movement
- measurement
- Pressure
- automation
- evaluation
- rumination
- evaluation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- ruminants
- cattle
- feeding
- grazing
- rumination
- movement
- measurement
- Pressure
- automation
- evaluation
- rumination
- evaluation
- 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 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 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 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 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 RecordInvasive species in Africa have important impacts on food security and biodiversity conservation. African floodplains in arid areas are critical wildlife habitats in addition to crop production and…Publication Date 2011
- dispersers
- habitat
- shifting cultivation
- wildlife
- Alien invasive species
- seeds
- seedlings
- livestock
- game
- conservation
- old lands
- ecosystem ecology
- Tana River
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoil solution nitrogen (N) concentrations in a non-fertilized Japanese lawngrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.; JL, native species) pasture were compared with those in a fertilized tall fescue (Festuca…Publication Date 2011
- grazing
- pastures
- cattle
- soil nutrients
- fertiliser
- Grazed pasture
- soil solution nitrogen
- Zoysia japonica Steud
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordLablab purpureus is a multipurpose legume with potential as a vegetable, pulse or forage crop for smallholder farming systems of southern Africa. Its use in the region is limited because the long-…Publication Date 2011
- lablab
- Limpopo Province
- multipurpose crop
- short duration
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- livestock
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- seeds
- Africa
- 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 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 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 RecordIngestion of small amounts of condensed tannin (CT) by ruminants can produce valuable outcomes such as improved nitrogen use and reduced bloating, methane output, and gastrointestinal parasitism.…Publication Date 2010-03-01
- condensed tannins
- livestock
- water intake
- Library Collection RecordRangelands and savannas occupy 70% of the Australian continent and are mainly used for commercial grazing of sheep and cattle. In the center and north, where there are extensive areas of indigenous…Publication Date 2010-01-01
- burning
- carbon
- deforestation
- emissions
- fire
- livestock
- vegetation thickening
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- pastures
- trees
- canopy
- browse plants
- shade
- cattle
- Behaviour
- Animal ecology
- silvopastoral systems
- small farms
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- Rice fields
- grazing
- cattle
- drinking water
- solar energy
- pumps
- fencing
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- cattle
- grazing
- locomotion
- Statistical methods
- global positioning systems
- Geographical information systems
- locomotion
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- cattle
- genotypes
- identification
- milking
- grazing
- identification
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- cattle
- grazing
- abandoned land
- weed control
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- cattle
- grazing
- abandoned land
- 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 RecordPublication Date 2010
- grasses
- grazing
- cattle
- leaching
- losses
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- potassium
- field experimentation
- potassium
- 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 RecordPublication Date 2010
- Phalaris arundinacea
- grassland soils
- nitrous oxide
- Inorganic Fertilizers
- livestock
- Japan
- Phalaris arundinacea
- Phalaris arundinacea
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- grasses
- grazing
- cattle
- leaching
- losses
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- potassium
- field experimentation
- potassium
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- cattle
- dairy cows
- risk
- Epidemiology
- hosts
- control methods
- grassland management
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Livestock grazing is often viewed as having detrimental effects on plants and plant communities. Livestock grazing can, however, be managed to be an effective tool for vegetation management…Publication Date 2010
- livestock
- grazing
- nutrition
- ecology
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavanna covers about two-thirds of Africa, with forage quantity and quality being important factors determining the distribution and density of wildlife and domestic stock. Testing hypotheses about…Publication Date 2010
- forage
- quality
- remote sensing
- hyperspectral
- herbivory
- Foliar
- nitrogen
- protein
- Polyphenol
- mopane
- savanna
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- livestock
- mapping
- management
- land use
- 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 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 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 RecordRangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland…Publication Date 2010
- grassland animals
- grazing
- livestock
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe issue of sustainability and productivity of open communal rangelands compared to fenced rangelands is often subject to controversy. This study investigated differences in soil and grass layer…Publication Date 2010
- game
- livestock
- Lowveld
- overgrazing
- stocking rates
- grazing
- sustainability
- management
- Soil Condition
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- rangelands
- vegetation dynamics
- plant production
- soil fertility
- Swaziland
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the seasonally dry tropics the productivity of grazing cattle is often constrained by nutrition, particularly during the dry season. An experiment during 2 annual cycles estimated the diet…Publication Date 2010
- diet selection
- Diet CP
- Diet DM digestibility
- animal nutrition
- animal production
- cattle
- forage quality
- north Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordDistance to grazing hotspots like watering points or farms is regularly used as proxy for grazing intensity in extended rangelands. In many studies the resulting patterns between distance and grazing…Publication Date 2010
- Ecological threshold
- Grazing hotspot
- piosphere
- rangelands
- state and transition model
- trampling
- grazing
- livestock
- management
- Library Collection RecordPredicting the effect of different management strategies on range condition is a challenge for farmers in highly variable environments. A model that explains how the relations between rainfall,…Publication Date 2010
- catastrophe theory
- complexity theory
- Disequilibrium
- hysteresis
- moving attractors
- vegetation dynamics
- livestock
- rainfall
- rangelands
- mangement
- rangeland condition
- modelling
- ecosystem ecology
- stocking rate
- South Africa
- 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 RecordProvides background on responsibilities of landowners and livestock owners in Arizona regarding fencing of property. Describes state statutes that pertain to livestock and fences (Arizona Revised…Publication Date 2010
- Arizona
- fencing
- laws and regulations
- Legal Aspects
- livestock
- Open Range
- ranchers
- Small Landowners
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- cattle
- milk yield
- rural areas
- ecology
- Pollution by agriculture
- pastures
- Library Collection RecordCommunal rangelands have a wide range of vegetation communities that sustain livestock. Limited information exists on forage availability and quality in communal areas and how it influences Nguni…Publication Date 2010
- biomass
- bite size
- foraging behaviour
- Nguni
- communal farming
- livestock
- sheep
- KwaZulu-Natal
- 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 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