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- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the effects of high biomass yielding winter cover crops, namely grazing vetch (Vicia dasycarpa L.) and oats (Avena sativa L.), on soil phosphorus (P) availability in low fertiliser…Publication Date 2014
- biomass
- pastures
- crops
- phosphorus
- soil nutrients
- plant production
- fertilizer
- Eastern Cape Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordA quantitative description of woody plant communities that aimed at aiding studies on grass–tree competition interactions, bush encroachment and estimation of food to browser herbivore species, was…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- competition
- grasses
- browse
- fodder production
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordKikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum)–ryegrass (Lolium spp.) cultivated pastures form the base for dairy production in the southern Cape region of South Africa. The impact of various methods and…Publication Date 2014
- pasture management
- plant production
- Ryegrass
- kikuyu
- soil disturbance
- herbicides
- tillage
- southern Cape region
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPoor irrigation management in pastures can lead to yield and quality reduction as well as loss of income through extra pumping and leaching of nitrate fertiliser. A number of irrigation scheduling…Publication Date 2014
- irrigation
- management
- pastures
- fertiliser
- plant production
- weather
- Ryegrass
- soil water
- plant production
- water dynamics
- nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordBrowsing herbivores are generally highly selective feeders, selecting for new shoots and young plant material. Determinations of browser carrying capacity are then greatly inflated when based on…Publication Date 2014
- savanna
- browsing
- grazing
- game
- wildlife
- conservation
- carrying capacity
- climate
- soil
- rainfall
- modelling
- plant production
- management
- Zululand region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of summer-to-winter simulated grazing management factors, namely defoliation interval (INT: 21, 42, 56 or 84 d), defoliation height (DH: 2·7, 3·6, 5·3 or 6·0 cm) and final defoliation…Publication Date 2014
- grazing
- management
- plant production
- fodder production
- pastures
- white clover
- perennial ryegrass
- defoliation
- Interval
- height
- closing date
- Ireland
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study, which was part of a larger grazing-systems experiment, was to investigate the cumulative impact of three levels of grazing intensity on sward production, utilization and…Publication Date 2014
- grazing
- management
- cows
- dry matter
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- post-grazing sward height
- tiller density
- rejected area
- leaf yield
- Lolium perenne
- Ireland
- Co. Cork
- Ireland
- Library Collection RecordExperiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of combined water salinity and deficit irrigation on common bermudagrass in order to address the shortage of water resources and increasing water…Publication Date 2014
- Antioxidant
- Common bermudagrass
- Deficit irrigation
- Turfgrass
- Water salinity
- irrigation
- pastures
- plant production
- Shiraz
- Iran
- Library Collection RecordPlants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits is…Publication Date 2014
- community assembly
- curse of dimensionality
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- ecosystem processes
- intrinsic dimension
- isomap
- nonlinear data reduction
- plant spectrums
- plant strategies
- plant traits
- ecosystem ecology
- Arizona
- California
- USA
- Sheffield
- United Kingdom
- Library Collection RecordOxidative stress caused by drought stress is a major limiting factor for grass cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions. In order to investigate the effect of nitric oxide (NO) donors on drought…Publication Date 2014
- Nitric oxide donors
- Oxidative stress
- drought
- Antioxidant enzymes
- Turfgrasses
- pastures
- drought
- plant production
- Shiraz
- Iran
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing plant species diversity in grasslands may improve productivity and stability of yields. In a field experiment, we investigated the herbage dry-matter (DM) yield and crude protein content…Publication Date 2014
- plant production
- grasslands
- Dry Matter Yield
- legumes
- management
- fertiliser
- soil fertility
- multispecies mixtures
- cutting
- grazing
- grass-clover
- Trifolium pratense
- Trifolium repens
- Jutland
- Denmark
- Library Collection RecordThis study assesses how climate impacts on agriculture may change the evolution of the agricultural and energy systems in meeting the end-of-century radiative forcing targets of the representative…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- agriculture
- bioenergy
- greenhouse gases
- plant production
- integrated assessment
- climate impacts
- emissions mitigation
- representative concentration pathways
- 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 RecordSeed dispersal is thought to be unpredictable and outside a plant's control. But directed seed dispersal by mutualistic birds can increase probabilities of germination and survival by the non-…Publication Date 2014
- abiotic stress
- dispersal in time
- facilitation
- frugivory
- plant demography
- plant neighbourhoods
- plant-plant interactions
- risk spreading
- Desert Grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- Arizona
- USA
- Library Collection RecordIn a 3-year experiment, we compared the fertilizer efficiency of sigmoidal releasing-type coated urea (CUS) and linear releasing-type coated urea (CUL) to that of readily available urea (RU). CUS and…Publication Date 2014
- fertiliser
- plant production
- pasture
- managementCoated urea
- herbage
- releasing-type
- seasonal herbage productivity
- single application
- Miyota
- Nagano
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordVetch species (Vicia narbonensis, V. sativa and V. villosa) are widely used for fodder production in Tunisia. This study aims to investigate vetch strategies involved in drought resistance through…Publication Date 2014
- drought
- Fodder
- management
- plant production
- water stress
- vetch species
- growth
- water relations
- stomatal conductance
- proline
- Tunisia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe well-described pattern of a few common and many rare species in plant communities (dominance-diversity curves) also has been documented within populations of dominant plant species. Understanding…Publication Date 2014
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- community dynamics
- genotypes
- competition
- Andropogon gerardii
- competition
- genotype richness
- grassland
- intergenotypic competition
- intragenotypic competition
- light
- neighborhood effects
- nitrogen
- water
- USA
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Several multi-year biodiversity experiments have shown positive species richness-productivity relationships which strengthen over time, but the mechanisms which control productivity are not…Publication Date 2013
- biomass production
- Community mean traits
- environmental filtering
- functional diversity
- niche differentiation
- Species identity
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- community analysis
- vegetation dynamics
- species richness
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordLarge areas of alpine pastures and meadows currently face declining land use or abandonment, which leads to tall-grass transition ecosystems with higher leaf area index (LAI), potentially increased…Publication Date 2013
- land use
- soil moisture
- runoff
- grassland
- grazing
- plant production
- carbon dioxide
- Economic Aspects
- Swiss Alps
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Quantifying the association of plant functional traits to environmental gradients is a promising approach for understanding and projecting community responses to land use and climatic…Publication Date 2013
- connectivity
- Drought-stress
- Habitat filtering
- limiting similarity
- Null models
- plant height
- Seed mass
- Seed number
- Specific leaf area (SLA)
- plant functional traits
- land use
- climate
- ecosystem ecology
- drought
- plant production
- Southern Judean Lowlands
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordPlant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade-off possibilities. The competition-defence hypothesis posits a trade-off between…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- Coexistence
- competition-defence hypothesis
- Life History
- mammalian herbivory
- Nutrient Network (NutNet)
- resource limitation
- tolerance
- top-down bottom-up
- trade-offs
- plant production
- fertilisers
- management
- nutrients
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordQuestions During restoration of bare subsoil, are planted grassland communities with low species richness more susceptible to invasion by non-residents than communities augmented by additional…Publication Date 2013
- diversity
- dominance
- Early Succession
- Elymus virginicus
- evenness
- functional type
- grassland restoration
- invasion resistance
- restoration ecology
- Alien invasive species
- species richness
- grasslands
- plant production
- Lexington
- Virginia
- USA
- Library Collection RecordWildfires can have significant impacts on rangeland productivity and functionality causing substantial economic losses to affected farmers. In August 2011, such wildfires swept through the North West…Publication Date 2013
- fire ecology
- rangelands
- plant production
- management
- grazing
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- grazing capacity
- erosion
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordQuestion How is the magnitude and seasonality of carbon uptake affected by the replacement of native grasslands by eucalyptus plantations? Location RÃo de la Plata Grasslands in Argentina and…Publication Date 2013
- ANPP
- land-use change
- MODIS
- NDVI
- RÃo de la Plata Grasslands
- tree plantations
- grasslands
- restoration ecology
- carbon sequestration
- rainfall
- plant production
- land use
- global warming
- management
- Argentina
- Uruguay
- Library Collection RecordQuestions What is the best way to identify plant indicators for monitoring the responses of semi-natural grassland communities to various management practices (i.e. burning, burning and mowing,…Publication Date 2013
- burning
- Dispersal mode
- disturbance
- Flowering season
- Functional composition
- grazing
- Indicator species analysis
- mowing
- Non-metric multidimensional scaling
- plant functional groups
- plant height
- moonitoring
- management
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- plant production
- Mt. Aso
- Kumamoto Prefecture
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordMany regions of the globe are experiencing a simultaneous change in the dominant plant functional type and regional climatology. We explored how atmospheric temperature and precipitation control leaf…Publication Date 2013
- eddy covariance
- landscape position
- mesquite (Prosopis velutina)
- photosynthesis
- plant-climate interactions
- semi-arid
- temperature optima
- Vegetation Change
- woody plant encroachment
- indigenous encroaching species
- climate change
- temperature
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon flux
- rainfall
- grasslands
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- San Pedro River
- Arizona
- USA
- Library Collection RecordForage-based dairy and livestock production is the backbone of agriculture in Northern Europe in economic terms. Changes in growing conditions that affect forage grass yield may have great economic…Publication Date 2012
- climatic variability
- Frost damage
- Grass modelling
- Ice damage
- Multi-model ensemble
- climate change
- pasture management
- plant production
- forage quality
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordFicus thonningii is a multipurpose browse tree in northern Ethiopia. Despite its importance, techniques for quantifying its browsable biomass have not been developed. To develop best-estimation…Publication Date 2012
- allometry
- indigenous fodder trees
- Tigray
- modelling
- plant production
- forage quality
- foraging ecology
- North Africa
- Ethiopia
- Library Collection RecordThis historical data set consists of 178 permanent 1-m2 quadrats located on semi-desert grasslands at the Santa Rita Experimental Range, Arizona, USA. Individual plants in these quadrats were…Publication Date 2012
- climate
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- livestock grazing
- plant community
- plant demography
- Sonoran Desert
- species interactions
- Santa Rita Experimental Range
- Arizona
- USA
- Library Collection RecordBiomass is considered a potential feedstock for many renewable energy production systems and interest especially in grass production has increased markedly in the last two decades. The present work…Publication Date 2012
- biomass
- grass
- harvesting
- yield
- Rate
- storage
- quality
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change impacts on agriculture could arguably be most critical for developing countries in tropical regions: their populations rely importantly on agriculture and climate-dependant resources,…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- agriculture
- impacts
- tropics
- C4 crops
- plant production
- precipitation
- modelling
- subsistence agriculture
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnnual estimates and seasonal patterns of gross nitrogen turnover in terrestrial soils are poorly understood due to the lack of experimental evidence. Based on year round sampling in wintergrazed and…Publication Date 2012
- annual nitrogen budget
- drying-rewetting
- freeze-thaw
- microbial biomass
- nitrification
- N mineralization
- steppe
- ecosystem ecology
- soils
- grazing
- plant production
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding changes in biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in relation to land-use type and intensity is a major issue in current ecological research. In this context nutrient enrichment has…Publication Date 2011
- Biodiversity exploratories
- fertilization
- grazing
- land use
- mowing
- nitrogen
- nutrient limitation
- phosphorus
- productivity
- agriculture
- pastures
- grasslands
- plant production
- soil nutrients
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordAn important issue in plant ecology is the extent to which functional traits that explain patterns at one organizational level serve as explanatory variables at higher levels, while a related subject…Publication Date 2011
- plant traits
- Individual level
- Population level
- Abandonment
- mowing
- Meadow
- ecosystem ecology
- plant functional traits
- mowing
- simulated grazing
- plant production
- pastures
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordSmooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.), meadow bromegrass (Bromus riparius Rehm.) and hybrid bromegrass (B. riparius x B. inermis) are widely used for hay and pasture in temperate regions of the…Publication Date 2011
- pastures
- plant production
- management
- plant physiology
- grasses
- Bromegrass
- defoliation
- etiolated regrowth
- remobilization of stored reserves
- Saskatoon
- Canada
- Library Collection Record1. Understanding the processes by which species sort themselves into communities remains a central puzzle for attempts to maintain biodiversity. It remains unclear whether any single assembly process…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- disturbance
- Coexistence
- Complementarity
- fertilization
- functional trait
- Meadow
- mowing
- null model
- plant population and community dynamics
- productivity
- removal
- South Bohemia
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordLegume content in grass -legume mixtures is a key parameter for deciding the forage quality and the amount of fertilizer application to the pasture due to nitrogen (N) fixation. To estimate legume…Publication Date 2011
- pastures
- plant production
- forage quality
- legumes
- fertiliser
- legumes
- modelling
- image processing
- Bootstrap procedure
- fertilizer application
- hyperspectral remote sensing
- pasture quality
- white clover
- Hokkaido
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordPastoral-based animal production systems are under increasing pressure to provide the high quantity and quality of feed needed for optimal ruminant performance. The capacity of farmers to increase…Publication Date 2011
- pasture
- greenhouse gases
- management
- plant production
- forage breeding
- fitness
- pasture persistence
- trait expression
- respiration
- cultivar evaluation
- forage quality
- breeding targets
- WSC
- environmental impact
- New Zealand
- Library Collection Record1. Climate extremes are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude as a consequence of global warming. 2.Managed permanent grasslands cover a large surface in Europe and contribute substantially…Publication Date 2011
- agriculture
- drought
- modelling
- adaptation
- climate change
- plant production
- Ecosystem function
- climatic events
- extreme weather
- grassland
- meadows
- phenotypes
- plant-climate interactions
- provenances
- within-species variability
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordThis study aimed to estimate green herbage biomass (GBM) and crude protein (CP) concentrations of a mixed-sown pasture in Hokkaido, Japan using ground based hyperspectral measurements and…Publication Date 2011
- plant production
- fodder quality
- pastures
- management
- grazing
- geostatistical analysis
- herbage biomass
- Herbage Quality
- hyperspectral measurement
- mapping
- Hokkaido
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: What are the patterns of remotely sensed vegetation phenology, including their inter-annual variability, across South Africa? What are the phenological attributes that contribute most to…Publication Date 2011
- Phytosociology
- AVHRR
- Biomes
- NDVI
- net primary production
- phenology
- Regression tree
- vegetation mapping
- mapping
- remote sensing
- plant production
- rainfall
- diversity
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Annual above-ground net primary productivity (ANPP) in mesic grasslands is known to be highly temporally variable. While yearly precipitation or average yearly temperature can explain some of this…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- rainfall
- temperature
- plant production
- C4 grasses
- ecosystem ecology
- climate variability
- dominant species
- inflorescence
- intra-annual variation
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation
- structural equation modelling
- tallgrass prairie
- temperature
- Kansas
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Recent theoretical studies suggest that the stability of ecosystem processes is not governed by diversity per se, but by multitrophic interactions in complex communities. However, experimental…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- invertebrates
- above- and below-ground interrelationships
- biodiversity loss
- biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship
- earthworms
- herbivore insects
- Jena Experiment
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- variability
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordWarm-season pasture residue may create problems for no-till overseeding with cool-season grasses in the USA Southern Plains. Removal of residue to facilitate overseeding, however, represents…Publication Date 2011
- plant production
- no-till
- pasture management
- oversowing
- Italian Ryegrass
- Festuca spp
- Herbage Yield
- temperature
- winter damage
- Southern Plains
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe ability to survive harsh winters is one of the primary factors limiting bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) distribution, especially those used for forage. Consequently, improved stress tolerance has…Publication Date 2011
- forage quality
- plant production
- temperature
- cold hardiness
- Cynodon
- temperature stress
- Library Collection RecordThe Grassland biome is the most transformed biome in South Africa, with cultivation and other human impacts having the largest effect on pristine grasslands. Conversion of natural grassland to…Publication Date 2011
- conservation
- Gauteng
- grassland
- old lands
- rehabilitation
- species diversity
- reseeding
- restoration ecology
- Weeds
- plant production
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordArthropods are valuable biological indicators owing to strong relationships with primary producers. The supposition that arthropod-plant interactions are constant over seasons was tested using Mantel…Publication Date 2011
- arthropod community composition
- Bloemfontein Dry Grassland
- Mantel test
- plant community composition
- trophic interactions
- insects
- biological indicators
- plant production
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- grasslands
- Free State province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe savannah of central Brazil occupies 208 million ha, of which about 54 million ha have been converted to cultivated pasture. The aim of this study was to provide the dynamics of evapotranspiration…Publication Date 2011
- savanna
- pasture
- evapotranspiration
- rainfall
- plant production
- Brachiaria brizantha
- Cerrado biome
- eddy covariance
- decoupling factor
- Brazil
- South America
- Library Collection RecordFirst page of Land, Food, and Biodiversity Agriculture currently occupies over 40% of Earth's land area and consumes 70% of available freshwater. Production systems have increased food output in…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- animal production
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- ecology
- conservation
- land use
- management
- Library Collection Record1. While positive effects of biodiversity on temporal stability of communities have been demonstrated in theoretical and empirical studies, diversity -stability relationships at the population level…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- covariance
- plant population and community dynamics
- population stability
- synchrony
- temporal stability
- species richness
- plant production
- Thuringia
- Germany