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- Library Collection RecordBiodiversity is a critical component of the natural environment and the protection of it often meant the displacement of local communities in developing countries. The Richtersveld National Park (…Publication Date 2007
- rangelands
- conservation
- Population crashes
- Herd recovery
- goats
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- national parks
- sheep
- pastoralism
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock production systems in Africa are experiencing rapid changes in structure and function due to increased demands for livestock products from a more prosperous and ever-increasing human…Publication Date 2008
- Methane
- livestock systems
- Livestock Populations
- climate change
- IPCC
- Africa
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- greenhouse gases
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study examined intraspecific variation in mineral composition and rumen degradability of Atriplex nummularia plants and the influence on selection preferences of sheep. Individual plants were…Publication Date 2009
- forage quality
- in situ degradability
- intraspecific variation
- salt bush
- sheep
- nutrition
- diet selection
- forage quality
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrimary energy extraction patterns by livestock under agropastoralism and ranching were investigated by the bite count method in semiarid south-eastern Kenya. Sward biomass for optimal energy intake…Publication Date 2009
- agropastoralism
- energy intake
- ranching
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- pastoralism
- diet selection
- grazing
- management
- animal production
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe nutritive value of four subtropical grasses (Panicum maximum, Anthephora pubescens, Digitaria eriantha and Chloris gayana) standing hay were compared in terms of qualitative intake and partial…Publication Date 2009
- Anthephora pubescens
- Chloris gayana
- Digitaria eriantha
- nutritive value
- Panicum maximum
- diet selection
- sheep
- forage quality
- animal nutrition
- grazing
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe reliability of a field test kit for the detection and the persistence of Synergistes jonesii bacteria in sheep was investigated in two trials for 12 months. The test kit consisted of a culture…Publication Date 2010
- DHP-degrading bacteria
- dihydroxypyridine
- mimosine
- diagnostic kits
- sheep
- drought
- forage quality
- disease
- 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 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 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 RecordSummary In a general ecological study of the Simanjiro Plains, northern Tanzania carried out from 1970 to 1972, the vegetation was studied as part of the habitat of large herbivores using this area.…Publication Date 1979
- ecology
- grasslands
- savanna
- sheep
- grazing
- animal impact
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of species composition and sward structure on the ingestive behaviour of cattle and sheep grazing a mesic, low quality grassland in South Africa were investigated over the 1990–93…Publication Date 1996
- diet selection
- cattle
- sheep
- grasslands
- grazing
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe development of the non-woolled Dorper sheep breed is briefly reviewed. Despite the large number of Dorpers in South Africa, precious little research results have been published on its nutrition…Publication Date 2000
- Breed development
- diet selection
- Voluntary feed intake
- Rumen variables
- reproduction
- production
- animal nutrition
- animal production
- sheep
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWooded rangelands are a vast grazing land resource globally, including shrublands, savannas and forested ranges. They generally provide forage year-round for small ruminants and they are vitally…Publication Date 2005
- diet selection
- Physical and chemical plant defences
- anti-quality
- grazing behaviour
- grazing
- rangelands
- savanna
- goats
- sheep
- foraging ecology
- livestock
- forage quality
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDistinguishing between sheep and goats in C4 grass environments using new dental morphology criteria and enamel bioapatite stable carbon isotope ratios (?13C) was tested on 35 modern individuals from…Publication Date 2005
- Carbon isotope ratio analysis
- Dental morphology
- sheep
- goat
- C4 grassland
- Tooth enamel
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe direct short-term impact of three rates of stocking (4, 8 and 16 small-stock units [SSU] ha-1) was quantified in terms of soil characteristics of arid Nama Karoo vegetation (subshrub/grass).…Publication Date 2009
- bulk density
- Infiltration Rate
- Karoo bushes
- soil compaction
- stocking rate
- sheep
- agriculture
- grazing
- soils
- stocking rates
- hydrology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordTwo long-term mechanistic models of grazing systems in the semi-arid succulent Karoo have been used to study factors that influence vegetation changes, livestock productivity and sustainability of…Publication Date 2005
- Rangeland dynamics
- Semi-arid regions
- Vegetation Change
- Goat production
- goats
- sheep
- rainfall
- rangelands
- vegetation dynamics
- modelling
- diet selection
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe communal areas of the semi-arid (200 mm) winter-rainfall Namaqualand region of South Africa are heavily utilised by a large number of subsistence farmers who keep sheep and goats. For several…Publication Date 2005
- Semi-arid rangeland
- Vegetation Change
- Goat production
- desertification
- sheep
- goats
- stocking rates
- management
- pastoralism
- subsistence agriculture
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- animal production
- Africa
- 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 RecordConcerns about biodiversity preservation through grazing have revived interest in feeding choices made by herbivores. In this article, we study the dynamics of behavioural intake response in…Publication Date 2005
- foraging behaviour
- Bite
- intake rate
- sheep
- Feeding choices
- rangelands
- biodiversity
- forage quality
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCompared with monospecies stocking, numerous studies substantiate that multispecies stocking can efficiently increase use within and among the mosaic pattern of rangeland plant life forms. However,…Publication Date 1990
- rangeland
- livestock
- management
- diet selection
- foraging ecology
- cattle
- sheep
- vegetation dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAcross nearly 100 sampling locations widely distributed within the arid shrubland of Western Australia, we demonstrated a general relationship between landscape function, primary productivity and…Publication Date 2002
- landscape function
- resilience
- Landscape degradation
- primary productivity
- indicators
- patch
- patch-mosaic
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- rainfall
- grazing
- sheep
- degradation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordChilean needle grass [Nassella neesiana (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth; CNG] is a perennial spear grass that has invaded pastures in south-eastern Australia and can lead to a substantial reduction of…Publication Date 2014
- management
- grazing
- sheep
- grazing management
- pasture management
- sheep
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- animal production
- Herbicide
- soils
- seeds
- Austrailia
- Library Collection RecordOvergrazing and mismanagement of rangelands, climate change, drought and [`]salinisation of lands are threatening the sustainability of production systems and the fertility of cropping lands…Publication Date 2010
- Atriplex nummularia L.
- Fodder potential
- sheep
- goats
- Australia
- West Asia
- North Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigated the long-term effects on sward composition and animal performance of applying different fertilizer regimes to upland permanent pasture. The experiment, which was carried out…Publication Date 2011
- pasture
- management
- grazing
- animal production
- fertilizer
- Extensification
- sheep
- botanical composition
- nutritive value
- liveweight gain
- Wales
- Great Britain
- Library Collection RecordMutualism between plants and animals demonstrates that grazing has positive impacts on plant growth. Animal saliva plays an important role in plant–herbivore interactions, and various salivary…Publication Date 2014
- grazing
- management
- plant removal
- plant-herbivore interactions
- compensation
- Leymus chinensis
- sheep
- epidermal growth factor
- thiamine
- late-growing season
- China
- Library Collection RecordPlant secondary compounds (PSC) are increasingly recognized as important in animal health, welfare and nutrition, yet little is known about possible complementarities among forages that contain PSC.…Publication Date 2011
- sheep
- forage quality
- diet selection
- plant secondary compounds
- diverse diets
- plant diversity
- Forages
- Lewiston
- Utah
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of correcting indigestible neutral detergent fibre (iNDF) for the loss of lignin in predictions of silage organic matter digestibility (OMD).…Publication Date 2014
- silage
- plant nutritive value
- forage quality
- cattle
- sheep
- management
- faecal samples
- grass
- indigestible neutral detergent fibre
- in vivo digestibility
- lignin
- red clover
- Jokioinen
- Finland
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to clarify whether the changes in percent cover of plant functional types (i.e., life forms and growth forms) along a grazing gradient reflect the livestock number,…Publication Date 2009
- grazing intensity
- plant functional type
- rangeland ecology
- semi-arid
- grazing
- livestock
- management
- sheep
- grasslands
- plant anatomy
- plant autecology
- vegetation dynamics
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordQuestions Does epizoochorous dispersal via sheep lead to the establishment of populations of sandy grassland species on newly created, managed restoration sites on sandy bare soil? Do epizoochorously…Publication Date 2014
- Festuco-Brometea
- Functional connectivity
- habitat fragmentation
- Koelerio-Corynephoretea
- Post-dispersal fate
- seed dispersal
- seed rain
- sheep grazing
- Spatial Analysis by Distance Indices (SADIE)
- soil seed bank
- seed bank
- sheep
- grazing
- releves
- restoration ecology
- grassland
- Upper Rhine Valley
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordSeasonal dynamics in the vegetation and rumen microbial nitrogen (MBN) production and nutritional status of grazing sheep were investigated in a semiarid rangeland in eastern Rajasthan, India, to…Publication Date 2011
- rangeland
- vegetation dynamics
- grazing
- management
- resource
- nutrition
- Semiarid rangeland
- sheep
- weather discomforts
- Rajasthan
- India
- 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 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