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- Library Collection RecordFood plant selection by herbivorous mammals and by harvester ants Messor capensis was compared for three sites differing in past and present management in the southern Karoo, South Africa. At all…Publication Date 1993
- ecology
- seeds
- insects
- grazing
- management
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper discusses land use patterns of hunter-gatherers inhabiting arid grasslands of later Pleistocene East Africa, inferred from an analysis of raw material economy in five Later Stone Age (LSA…Publication Date 1999
- palaeobotany
- land use
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract 10.1002/qj.49712253008.abs An atmospheric general-circulation model with realistic land-surface properties is used to investigate the climatic effect of doubling the extent of the earth…Publication Date 1996
- climate change
- Climate modelling
- desertification
- Regional climate sensitivity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relationships between pastoralists, livestock, and the environment in dryland Africa are complex. Over the last half-century dominant narratives have portrayed pastoralists and their livestock as…Publication Date 2010
- NDVI
- GPS
- cattle mobility
- grazing ecology
- degradation
- Cultural ecology
- piosphere
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRestoration of degraded soils is a development strategy to reduce desertification, soil erosion and environmental degradation, and alleviate chronic food shortages with great potential in sub-Saharan…Publication Date 2005
- soil organic matter
- soil degradation
- global warming
- soil restoration
- agroforestry
- farming systems
- ecoregions
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- carbon sequestration in soil
- soil organic carbon
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- restoration ecology
- degradation
- Soil Condition
- desertification
- erosion
- carbon dioxide
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWhat is overgrazing? Does it cause soil erosion? The recent debate from the ecological literature is reviewed as background to the debate on overgrazing and soil erosion. This debate stresses the…Publication Date 2004
- soil erosion
- Over Grazing
- Communal lands
- equilibrium and non-equilibrium theory
- South Africa
- grazing
- communal farming
- Abandoned lands
- rangeland condition
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWoody, subalpine shrubs and grasses currently surround Lake Rutundu, Mount Kenya. Multiple proxies, including carbon isotopes, pollen and grass cuticles, from a 755-cm-long core were used to…Publication Date 2003
- Late Quaternary
- East Africa
- palaeoecology
- fire history
- C3
- C4
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordStable carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of ungulate grazers from four archaeological sites located in different environs within the Caledon River Valley have provided a relatively well-dated proxy…Publication Date 2002
- terminal Pleistocene
- Holocene
- carbon and oxygen isotopes
- southern Africa
- palaeoenvironments
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe microscopic charcoal content of several Quaternary pollen sequences is used to investigate fire history in South Africa both during the Holocene and the Late Pleistocene. Although fluctuations in…Publication Date 2002
- microscopic charcoal
- pollen sequences
- fire history
- Iron Age
- Quaternary
- South Africa
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAs stated by many authors in the recent past, soil erosion is one of the major environmental problems in southern Africa and it will become even more severe in the future due to population growth and…Publication Date 2003
- remote sensing
- degradation
- Erosion modelling
- Swaziland
- modelling
- soil erosion
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the context of climate change mitigation and poverty reduction, it has been argued that biogas energy is relevant, as it is economically and ecologically useful. In the 1980s, biogas use played an…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- Biogas
- socio-economic aspects
- policy
- rural women
- household income studies
- subsistence agriculture
- rural areas
- Burundi
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA paired site study was conducted of communally grazed eutrophic and dystrophic grasslands and adjacent ungrazed areas of varying periods of exclusion from communal grazing. This allowed…Publication Date 1999
- grasslands
- grazing
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- animal production
- plant production
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNASA's flagship Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra satellite was launched in 1999 and began sensing in March 2000 coincident with the first major field campaign of the Southern Africa Regional…Publication Date 2005
- remote sensing
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordUniversity of Natal , Pietermaritzburg, Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences.Publication Date 2004
- grasslands
- mangement
- carbon dioxide
- community vegetation studies
- plant production
- water use efficiency
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn many areas of Europe there are policies to restore former arable land to grassland. In practice, this usually involves the use of commercial seed mixtures. The abundance of all vascular plants…Publication Date 2011
- restoration ecology
- management
- agriculture management
- grassland
- rate of succession
- species pool
- vegetation
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordThe main aim of this study was to examine how concentrations of the micronutrients cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel and zinc change with phenological development in red clover,…Publication Date 2014
- forage quality
- nutrition
- forage
- grass
- Harvest
- legumes
- Plant Components
- stage of maturity
- trace elements
- dry matter
- Sweden
- Library Collection RecordWildfires are a serious problem affecting many terrestrial ecosystems and causing substantial economic damage. Understanding the variation in structure of fuels (which are predominantly represented…Publication Date 2009
- fire ecology
- Terrestrial ecosystem
- Fuel structure
- vegetation
- plant litter
- Object oriented database
- Fuel modeling
- Fuel succession
- Fuel manager
- modelling
- management
- Library Collection RecordLarge-scale (circa 500 ha) restoration of species-rich dry grasslands was conducted using a high-diversity regional seed mixture in the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere…Publication Date 2013
- grassland restoration
- regional seed mixture
- species diversity
- target species
- vegetation
- restoration ecology
- grasslands
- seeds
- vegetation dynamics
- mowing
- White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve
- Czech Republic
- Central Europe
- Library Collection RecordResearch to study the effect of cover crop sowing rate, row spacing and cultivar on establishment of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.)-based pastures in a semi-arid zone mixed-farming system was…Publication Date 2014
- Lucerne
- plant production
- rainfall
- pasture
- management
- undersow
- nurse crop
- alfalfa
- forage
- companion crop
- Austrailia
- Library Collection RecordGrazeIn is a model for predicting herbage intake and milk production of grazing dairy cows. The objectives of this paper are to test its robustness according to a planned arrangement of grazing and…Publication Date 2011
- animal production
- forage
- management
- grazing
- dairy cow
- herbage intake
- milk production
- modelling
- simulation
- Validation
- Europe
- 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 RecordThe studied area is the agricultural region Montes de Navahermosa integrated into the historic natural area Montes de Toledo. It is located in the south-western side of Toledo province (Castille-La…Publication Date 2012
- landscape complexes
- Navahermosa
- Toledo Mountains
- vegetation
- Toledo
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- rangelands
- rangeland soils
- range management
- ranching
- market prices
- Market analysis
- livestock production
- land management
- land
- grazing management
- grazing intensity
- grazing
- grasslands
- grasses
- forage
- educational institutions
- education
- animal production
- animal nutrition
- Animal breeding
- training
- teaching
- Nebraska
- recreation
- Library Collection RecordA rising plate meter (RPM) is an instrument used for the measurement of compressed sward height and estimation of yield on grasslands. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of an RPM to…Publication Date 2012
- forage
- perennial legumes
- alfalfa
- indirect method
- sward measurement
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection Record
- watershed management
- water
- vegetation types
- vegetation
- universities
- sustainable forestry
- Sustainable development
- surface water
- Surface drainage
- species diversity
- soil management
- soil erosion
- soil conservation
- runoff
- rotational grazing
- plant ecology
- plant density
- plant competition
- plant communities
- plant collections
- plant breeding
- Plant biology
- pasture plants
- overgrazing
- natural resources
- Earth
- land use
- land resources
- land rehabilitation
- land reform
- land productivity
- land ownership
- land management
- land economics
- land
- industry
- habitats
- groundwater
- grazing management
- grazing intensity
- grasslands
- grasses
- training
- teaching
- Nebraska
- grazing
- recreation
- climate
- drought
- Library Collection RecordLarge-scale (circa 500 ha) restoration of species-rich dry grasslands was conducted using a high-diversity regional seed mixture in the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere…Publication Date 2012
- grassland restoration
- regional seed mixture
- species diversity
- target species
- vegetation
- White Carpathian Mountains
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordUtilization has been an important “tool†in range management since its beginnings. On the surface the concept appears simple, referring to the percentage of current forage removed by…Publication Date 2016
- livestock
- forage
- monitoring
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1970
- monitoring
- methodology
- vegetation
- Utah
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- vegetation types
- vegetation
- rangelands
- California
- California
- Library Collection RecordExecutive Summary: The training workshop for media practitioners on Climate Change Fact, Communication and Adaptation Strategies was organised by Global Unification, The Gambia (GU), a youth-led…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- community based resource management
- The Gambia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFriday, 20 April 2012: Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100…Publication Date 2012
- mapping
- groundwater
- aquifers
- sustanability
- environmental factors
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrazing lands in Eritrea are degraded due to decades of overstocking and consequent overgrazing. Since the rangelands are accessible to entire village communities, organisation and coordinated…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- degradation
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- livestock
- management
- grazing
- Commercial farming
- cattle
- household income studies
- forage
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- weed control
- vegetation
- grazing
- woody plants
- Oklahoma
- recreation
- grazing systems
- goats
- Library Collection RecordRangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and…
- watershed management
- rangelands
- rangeland soils
- evaluation
- vegetation
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