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- 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 RecordThe effects of grazing on plant biomass, plant quality, species evenness, species diversity and species composition were determined among management types (communal, commercial and game) and among…Publication Date 2010
- grazing
- herbivory
- plant biomass
- plant quality
- rangeland management
- savanna
- species richness
- species diversity
- communal farming
- commercial agriculture
- game farming
- forage quality
- grazing
- 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 Record1. Grazing lawns are short grassland areas where intense grazing maintains grass in an early growth stage. These areas represent a source of high-quality forage for herbivores. However, as herbivores…Publication Date 2010
- grazing
- grasslands
- management
- plant production
- savanna
- vegetation dynamics
- climatic variability
- continuous stocking
- grazing systems
- intensively managed grasslands
- large herbivores
- primary production
- rainfall
- white rhino
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Up to 73% of the world s rangelands are degraded, and increasing demand for meat in developing countries and a growing human population are likely to exert even greater pressures on rangelands in…Publication Date 2010
- restoration ecology
- stocking rates
- grazing
- rangelands
- rainfall
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Burning is commonly used in savannas to stimulate grass regrowth for grazing ungulates. We recorded the relative use of burns occurring at different stages in the seasonal cycle, as well as…Publication Date 2010
- burned grassland
- faecal nitrogen
- faecal phosphorus
- fire management
- foraging behaviour
- Hippotragus niger
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- savanna
- forage quality
- diet selection
- grazing
- foraging ecology
- nutrition
- 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 RecordGrazing can modify vegetation structure and species composition through selective consumption, modifying plant litter quality and hence decomposability. In most grasslands, moderate stocking rates…Publication Date 2010
- Ground
- below-ground
- Decomposition
- grazing
- nutrient cycling
- vegetation patch
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- soils
- Córdoba Mountains
- Argentina
- 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 RecordMalagarasi River catchment represents one of the largest and most significant transboundary natural ecosystems in Africa. The catchment constitutes about one third of the catchment area of Lake…Publication Date 2010
- Land use land cover changes
- Malagarasi river catchment
- Muyovozi wetland
- perceptions
- remote sensing
- land use
- fire
- grazing
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- rehabilitation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of fire and grazing management on grass nutritional quality in semi-arid savannas may depend on inherent variation in rainfall and soil nutrient status. We examined the effects of grazing…Publication Date 2010
- crude protein
- Grass nutritional quality
- phosphorus
- rainfall
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil nutrients
- management
- savanna
- forage quality
- plant production
- Northern Cape
- South Africa
- 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 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 Record1. aged and natural ecosystems, herbivory can have a major impact on plant growth. Defoliation and shoot removal reduce the photosynthetic capacity of plants and are also thought to reduce allocation…Publication Date 2010
- fertiliser
- ecosystem ecology
- invertebrates
- arbuscular myccorrhyiza
- clipping
- defoliation
- ectomycorrhiza
- grazing
- insect herbivory
- land use
- meta-analysis
- mowing
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordLand use and land transformation are major threats to biodiversity. Only a small percentage of land and thus biodiversity is protected within reserves. The majority of biodiversity lies in the hands…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Agrobiodiversity
- Agricultural ecology
- veld
- landscape assessment
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- grassland
- savanna
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil erosion
- commercial agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGrassland vegetation can provide visual cover for terrestrial vertebrates. The most commonly used method to assess visual cover is the Robel pole. We test the use of digital photography as a more…Publication Date 2010
- bunchgrass
- Digital image analysis
- grazing
- litter
- range management
- Robel pole
- wildlife management
- remote sensing
- British Columbia
- Canada
- 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 RecordThis paper examines if post-fire deferment and periodic rests provided by rotational grazing allowed for more rapid recovery of soil cover, soil chemical and physical parameters, and vegetation…Publication Date 2010
- grazing management
- infiltration
- prescribed burning
- soil health
- summer fire
- rangeland restoration
- Soil Condition
- management
- grazing
- fire ecology
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- Texas
- USA
- 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 RecordAnts are a prominent invertebrate group used to assess ecological change in response to disturbance. Their application as a bioindicator group has been particularly widespread in Australia, and a…Publication Date 2010
- Ants
- grazing
- Bioindicator
- land management
- Global patterns
- insects
- grasslands
- rangeland condition
- disturbance
- management
- Australia
- 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 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 RecordAspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is a disturbance-dependent, fire-resilient, shade-intolerant, clonal species that is in decline throughout western North America. The objective of this study was to…Publication Date 2009-11-01
- Cascades
- frequency
- grazing
- intensity
- Populus tremuloides Michx.
- seaso
- Library Collection RecordWhen offered a free choice between different forage species presented in a pasture association, ruminants will choose a mixed diet, even when one dietary component could meet all of their nutritional…Publication Date 2009-09-01
- dietary preferences
- grazing
- nutrients
- ruminants
- satiety
- Library Collection RecordPast research has shown that changes in grazing-resistance traits may be associated with genetic changes in plant populations. Little is known about spatial genetic relationships within plant…Publication Date 2009-07-01
- apomixis
- genetic diversity
- grasslands
- grazing
- history
- Library Collection RecordPiñon-juniper is a major vegetation type in western North America. Effective management of these ecosystems has been hindered by inadequate understanding of 1) the variability in ecosystem structure…Publication Date 2009-05-01
- climate
- CO2
- drought
- fire
- grazing
- tree infill
- tree invasion
- range expansion
- Library Collection RecordThe aim of this study, performed on 62 adult dry cashmere goats grazing upland perennial ryegrass-white clover pastures and naturally infected with gastrointestinal nematodes, was to investigate the…Publication Date 2009-03-01
- anthelmintic
- grazing
- live weight
- parasites
- tannin
- Library Collection RecordThesis by Brianna Goehring concerning Livestock, Grazing, Invasive Plants and other subjectsPublication Date 2009
- livestock
- grazing
- invasive species
- Idaho
- Library Collection Record1-Jul-09Publication Date 2009
- forage
- grazing
- range management
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- sheep
- grazing
- legumes
- nitrogen metabolism
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- sheep
- grazing
- milk
- urea
- legumes
- urea
- urea
- urea
- urea
- urea
- urea
- urea
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- flocks
- grazing
- environmental impact
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- sheep
- fallow
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- dairy cows
- Dairies
- grazing
- environmental protection
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- swine
- Fattening
- silage
- Potatoes
- grazing
- Behaviour
- quality
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Dairy cattle
- grazing
- global positioning systems
- locomotion
- feeding
- locomotion
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Rice fields
- abandoned land
- weed control
- goats
- grazing
- Solidago
- Solidago
- Solidago
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- cattle
- feeds
- Self sufficiency
- roughage
- Feed Crops
- grazing
- Feed Resources
- feeding systems
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Protozoa
- grazing
- feed intake
- water storage
- tanks
- Protozoa
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- animal production
- grazing
- Feed Crops
- cultivation
- abandoned land
- farmland
- Self sufficiency
- Nitrogen cycle
- environmental impact
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- swine
- grazing
- Fattening
- economic analysis
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- vegetation
- forests
- soil analysis
- grazing
- ruminants
- soil pH
- electrical conductivity
- soil fertility
- nutrient availability
- nitrogen
- calcium
- potassium
- magnesium
- iron
- manganese
- zinc
- copper
- Laboratory diagnosis
- Laboratory experimentation
- Acid Soils
- vegetation
- calcium
- potassium
- magnesium
- manganese
- zinc
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- dairy cows
- feeds
- supplements
- carbohydrates
- grazing
- milk fat
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- grazing
- cattle
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- calves
- weaning
- timing
- feeding systems
- growth
- weight gain
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- grazing
- pest control
- Library Collection Record[13th Conference on animal production, 12th and 13th May, 2009, Zaragoza [Spain]], Joy Torrens, M.Calvo Costa, J.H.Calvete Margolles, C.Latorre Górriz, M.A.Casasús Pueyo, I.Panea Doblao, B.Sanz…Publication Date 2009
- dairy cows
- animal feeding
- Maize
- silage
- grazing
- fatty acids
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- lambs
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Alps
- sheep
- grazing
- summer
- ecosystems
- Regulations
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2009
- Effectors
- mineral content
- grazing
- lambs
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