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- Library Collection RecordThe interactions between vegetation dynamics, fuel dynamics and fire hazard in rehabilitation after bauxite mining at Gove, Northern Territory, Australia were investigated. It was found that a policy…Publication Date 2012
- fire
- fuel
- minesite
- rehabilitation
- savanna
- fire ecology
- management
- restoration ecology
- mine rehabilitation
- Nhulunbuy
- Northern Territory
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe structure of tropical savanna ecosystems is influenced by fire frequency and intensity. There is particular interest in the extent to which long-term fire exclusion can result in a shift from…Publication Date 2012
- Biome shift
- fire
- fire behaviour
- resprout
- savanna
- tropical woodland
- woody thickening
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSavanna burning for greenhouse gas abatement presents an opportunity for remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia to engage with the mainstream economy while fulfilling cultural…Publication Date 2012
- carbon sequestration
- fire
- Methane
- nitrous oxide
- Northern Australia
- Tiwi Islands
- savanna
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- management
- carbon dioxide
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the economic potential for fire management to provide offsets to carbon markets in the savannas of northern Australia. Long-term field trials in Australia’s savannas have…Publication Date 2012
- carbon market
- climate change mitigation
- fire management
- greenhouse gas offset
- indigenous fire management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper documents the effects of fire on grass-layer invertebrates in tropical savannas of the Kimberley region of north-western Australia, in the context of resource availability for consumers.…Publication Date 2012
- fire ecology
- invertebrates
- Kimberley
- savanna
- conservation
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: Do soil seed banks of semi-arid grasslands reassemble after abandonment from cultivation? Do seeds of native and exotic species persist in the soil? Does time since abandonment affect…Publication Date 2012
- Annual Forb
- Chronosequence
- dispersal
- grassland
- restoration
- secondary succession
- Victoria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordQuestions (a) What are directions of spontaneous succession; in particular, do target stages (identified as shrubby grassland and semi-natural deciduous woodland) develop, and if so, which species…Publication Date 2012
- Ellenberg indicator values
- Old-fields
- ordination
- restoration
- species richness
- succession
- target species
- grasslands
- Phytosociology
- Library Collection RecordQuestions What is the overall restoration potential of the persistent soil seed bank of abandoned alvar grassland sites? To what degree does the share of characteristic alvar grassland species in the…Publication Date 2012
- Abandonment
- grassland management
- grazing
- Limestone grassland
- Optimal sampling time
- seed density
- Seed mass
- Semi-natural grassland
- species richness
- Traditional management
- seed bank
- restoration ecology
- grasslands
- Estonia
- Library Collection RecordQuestion In many industrialized countries biodiversity is declining. Although changes in species composition and species richness have been documented for many individual systems, little long-term…Publication Date 2012
- Agricultural intensification
- Agri-environment schemes (AES)
- Floristic value
- Nature reserves
- Nutrient richness
- species richness
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- agriculture
- conservation
- management
- Netherlands
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How does horse or sheep grazing affect species richness, diversity and functional composition of plant communities in sub-Mediterranean grasslands? What are the implications of grazing…Publication Date 2012
- Dominant species control
- Functional plant traits
- Grazing avoidance
- grazing management
- grazing tolerance
- Plant diversity conservation
- grazing
- sheep
- horses
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- diversity
- Italy
- Library Collection RecordMost results of restoration efforts are species-specific and/or site-specific and therefore are not general enough to be easily applied to other species and other sites. Our research addresses the…Publication Date 2012
- British Columbia
- Bunchgrass prairies
- grasslands
- modelling
- Oregon
- Pacific Northwest
- predictive models
- prairies
- Washington
- Oregon
- Washington
- USA
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Library Collection RecordQuestion Does the below-ground bud bank mediate response to drought in restored grasslands? Location Platte River Valley region of south-central Nebraska, USA. Methods We imposed severe drought for…Publication Date 2012
- below-ground
- climate change
- community
- forb
- grass
- Lag
- meristem
- Plant
- prairie
- Rainfall manipulation
- restoration ecology
- grasslands
- drought
- Nebraska
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThere is much concern that the functioning of ecosystems will be affected by human-induced changes in biodiversity, of which land-use change is the most important driver. However, changes in…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- carbon sequestration
- ecosystem services
- functional diversity
- grasslands
- grazing intensity
- litter decomposition
- long-term experiment
- primary production
- resource availability
- structural equation modeling
- Mackenzie Basin
- South Island
- New Zealand
- Library Collection RecordThe CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere may double during this century. Plant responses to such an increase depend strongly on their nitrogen status, but the reasons have been uncertain.…Publication Date 2012
- ecology
- C3
- C4
- climate change
- CO2 acclimation
- Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
- nitrogen
- plant distributions
- grasslands
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- 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 RecordAbstract not available
- range management
- grazing management
- grazing intensity
- grazing
- grasslands
- South Dakota
- Oklahoma
- North Dakota
- Nebraska
- Kansas
- recreation
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordPayments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly promoted as an economic mechanism that could potentially address socio-economic and environmental conservation objectives in developing…Publication Date 2012
- Indigenous ecological knowledge
- capacity building
- market-based instruments
- citizen science
- payment for environmental services
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn the past few years, African medicinal plants have received considerable attention, and it has been lamented that the documentation of the continent's species that are used in traditional…Publication Date 2011
- medicinal plants
- rangelands
- savanna
- grasslands
- Ethnobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSeeding & establishing Lucerne PasturesPublication Date 2012
- seeds
- Lucerne
- health
- Commercial farming
- Pasture establishment
- veld
- management
- grasslands
- agriculture
- 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 RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issued in printed format.Publication Date 2007
- birds
- mammals
- ecology
- grasslands
- diet selection
- ecology
- game animals
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso available on CD-ROM. Accompanying map and table in pocket at back of book. (copy one) Accomapnying map and table available on level 3 (copy two) Summary in English and Afrikaans. Vegetation…Publication Date 2007
- ecology
- grasslands
- mapping
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: The KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa, is predominantly a grassland ecosystem maintained by fire. The effect of the current burning regime on invertebrate and flowering forb diversity…Publication Date 2006
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- species richness
- invertebrates
- southern Africa
- 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 RecordSouth African dairy farmers have generally used kikuyu pasture to tide them over from one ryegrass season to the next, and as a result of its resilient nature, have assumed careful management of it…Publication Date 2007
- management
- pastures
- dairy farming
- Economic Aspects
- nutrients
- animal production
- grazing
- fire
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpecies possess characteristics that are considered adapted to burning and these allow them to outcompete species and dominate in fire prone environments. It has therefore been proposed that fire…Publication Date 2009
- photosynthesis
- Carbon metabolism
- grasses
- Effect of fires on plants
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2001
- plant autecology
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe project was initiated by Eastern Cape Parks (ECP) as a request for the construction of inventories of priority species and their population levels inside three nature reserves on the Eastern Cape…Publication Date 2010
- Plant diversity conservation
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Rare plants
- Population viability analysis
- biodiversity
- Plant conservation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Human-plant relationships
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Nature reserves
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe overall aim of the study was to investigate re-vegetation of disturbed sites, using nursery grown plugs (from seedling trays) of Themeda triandra, Heteropogon contortus and Hyparrhenia dregeana…Publication Date 2005
- restoration ecology
- revegetation
- grasslands
- herbicides
- Alien invasive species
- southern Africa
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