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- Library Collection RecordTotal herbage production increased significantly following 92 to 100 percent control of winged elm, oak, and hickory trees. This increase, however, was mostly in less desirable grass and forb plants…Publication Date 1964-09-01
- recovery
- abundance
- oak
- Vegetational Composition
- Winged Elm
- Ulmus alata
- Woody Species
- Vegetational Responses
- Blackjack Post Oak Vegetative Type
- 2,4,5-T
- Quercus
- Kansas
- invasion
- herbage production
- reseeding
- forbs
- control
- Oklahoma
- brush control
- species composition
- Texas
- basal cover
- Library Collection RecordWhite-tailed deer welfare and production under various intensities of continuous-use grazing by combined cattle, sheep, and angora goats was studied in the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. Under poor…Publication Date 1965-01-01
- native forage
- competition
- Food
- responses
- Central Texas
- Welfare
- white-tailed deer
- Continuous Use Grazing
- Sheep Angora Goats
- Deer Production
- Ashe Juniper Vegetative Type
- Mortaility
- rest periods
- Poor
- vegetative composition
- deer
- controlled grazing
- palatability
- livestock production
- range condition
- livestock
- cattle
- production
- Odocoileus virginianus
- feed
- Edwards Plateau
- Texas
- carrying capacity
- Library Collection RecordThe survival of Ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei Buchh.) plants of all sizes was compared between paired burned and unburned plots in four savanna sites on the eastern Edwards Plateau. Smaller plants…Publication Date 2007-11-01
- Edwards Plateau
- facilitation
- fire survival
- Juniperus ashei
- survival rates
- Texas
- Library Collection RecordHighly intensive stocking of dairy cattle on continuously grazed pasture coupled with liberal applications of commercial fertilizer can lead to increased losses of agricultural nutrients, which is a…Publication Date 2003-05-01
- farm size
- dairy cows
- soil nutrient balance
- nutrient management
- dairy farm management
- agricultural runoff
- pollution control
- simulation models
- costs and returns
- production costs
- fertilizer application
- stocking rate
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- application rates
- Texas
- grazing
- stocking density
- manure
- nutrient losses
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- economics
- Library Collection RecordConsumption of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr. var glandulosa) fruit by ruminants is an important component of seed dispersal. Two experiments were conducted to estimate the role of livestock and…Publication Date 2003-05-01
- wildlife
- seed dispersal
- Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa
- viability
- weathering
- seed predation
- seed maturation
- seeds
- feces
- digestibility
- sheep
- goats
- cattle
- Texas
- range management
- Prosopis
- germination
- digestion
- fecal dispersal
- phenology
- encroachment
- Library Collection RecordScaled quail (Callipepla squamata) numbers were evaluated during and after a 2-year drought period using strip census techniques on 2 pastures in late seral rangeland ecological condition and 2…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- Callipepla
- population size
- Callipepla squamata
- game birds
- seral stages
- vegetation cover
- wildlife habitats
- arid lands
- ecological succession
- pastures
- grazing intensity
- biomass
- drought
- plant litter
- New Mexico
- upland game birds
- wildlife
- arid lands
- cattle grazing
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordOff-road military vehicle traffic is a major consideration in the management of military lands. The objective of this study was to determine the impacts of military tracked M1A1 heavy combat tank…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- rocks
- soil conservation
- military lands
- vehicles
- desert soils
- vegetation cover
- land management
- land use
- soil erosion
- dry seasons
- wet season
- forbs
- shrubs
- sediment yield
- plant litter
- grasses
- New Mexico
- military lands
- soil stability
- site recovery
- seasonal drought
- Library Collection RecordMechanical clearing and herbicide-burn treatments were compared to evaluate saltcedar (Tamarix chinensis Lour.) control and recovery along the Rio Grande on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife…Publication Date 2003-09-01
- plowing
- root plowing
- Tamarix chinensis
- imazapyr
- cost effectiveness
- plant volume
- brush cutting
- volume
- glyphosate
- stems
- height
- riparian areas
- brush control
- mortality
- cutting
- prescribed burning
- land restoration
- plant density
- invasive species
- canopy
- New Mexico
- plant height
- Riparian restoration
- imazapyr
- glyphosate
- prescribed fire
- root plowing
- root raking
- Library Collection RecordAeration is a common range management technique used in southern Texas and northern Mexico to reduce shrub cover and increase biomass of more palatable forages. Guajillo (Acacia berlandieri Benth.)…Publication Date 2003-09-01
- rolling
- phenethylamines
- tyramine
- N-methyl-phenethylamine
- juvenile stems
- mature stems
- leaves
- deserts
- Acacia berlandieri
- stems
- browse plants
- weed control
- regrowth
- Texas
- seasonal variation
- browsing
- chemical constituents of plants
- Acacia berlandieri
- Chihuahuan Desert
- forage quality
- Mexico
- nitrogen
- tyramine
- Library Collection RecordPalatability of shrub sprouts to white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Raf.) differs among species, which causes selective browsing and can shift shrub species composition to dominance by less…Publication Date 2003-11-01
- sprouts
- shrublands
- brush control
- palatability
- Texas
- botanical composition
- wildlife food habits
- Acacia rigidula
- blackbrush acacia
- brush management
- Celtis pallida
- spiny hackberry
- white-tailed deer
- Library Collection RecordSeveral studies have examined the impact of woody plant (i.e., brush) management efforts on mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.) cover and associated ecological impacts, but little research has been…Publication Date 2003-11-01
- Prosopis glandulosa
- spatial variation
- brush control
- herbicides
- mortality
- spatial distribution
- Texas
- canopy
- brush management
- clopyralid
- spatial pattern analysis
- GIS and remote sensing
- semiarid rangelands
- Library Collection RecordSustainable management of riparian ecosystems depends on our understanding of these complex systems. Thus far, the scientific literature has not adequately addressed the effects of livestock grazing…Publication Date 2004-09-01
- cottonwood
- populus angustifolia
- season of use
- Southwest
- New Mexico
- cattle
- Library Collection RecordThis paper presents a comparative simulation analysis of the economics of prescribed fire and aerially applied root-killing herbicide treatment as methods for maintaining livestock productivity on…Publication Date 2001-09-01
- livestock numbers
- carrying capacity
- Prosopis glandulosa
- cost analysis
- cost-benefit analysis
- brush control
- herbicides
- chemical control
- prescribed burning
- Texas
- wildlife management
- grazing
- brush management
- bioeconomics
- natural resource accounting
- prescribed burning
- root-killing herbicide
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of the rate woody plant canopy cover increases is essential for understanding the ecology of rangeland plant communities, determining the economic feasibility of brush management practices…Publication Date 2001-09-01
- aerial photography
- chaining
- grubbing
- Juniperus pinchotii
- carrying capacity
- soil types
- brush control
- rain
- biomass production
- grazing intensity
- Texas
- canopy
- forage
- Juniperus pinchotii
- mechanical brush control
- aerial photography
- line transects
- juniper management
- herbage production
- Library Collection RecordChanging landowner demographics and the increasing recognition that some quantity of woody plants is valuable for certain rangeland management objectives has led to increasing interest in selective…Publication Date 2001-11-01
- control methods
- innovation adoption
- U.S. Cooperative Extension Service
- extension agents
- information dissemination
- extension education
- Juniperus ashei
- geographical variation
- Opuntia
- Juniperus pinchotii
- Prosopis glandulosa
- landowners
- brush control
- herbicides
- weed control
- chemical control
- Texas
- agency and industry partnership
- brush management
- collaborative marketing
- information dissemination
- technology adoption
- Library Collection RecordExcessive cover of juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.) reduces forage production, interferes with livestock management, and diminishes the watershed and wildlife habitat values of rangelands. We…Publication Date 2001-11-01
- basal area
- Juniperus pinchotii
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- Buchloe dactyloides
- Hilaria mutica
- soil temperature
- Prosopis glandulosa
- soil fertility
- invasion
- weed control
- seedlings
- growth rate
- Texas
- botanical composition
- plant competition
- canopy
- plant height
- competition
- facilitation
- mesquite rangeland
- seedling establishment
- Library Collection RecordPhreatophytes are trees and shrubs with deep roots tapping the water tables. As such they are presumed to be able to tolerate a water deficit in the top soil. Growth of some phreatophytes is…Publication Date 2002-01-01
- Tamarix gallica
- weed biology
- diurnal variation
- stomatal conductance
- drought tolerance
- carbon dioxide
- root systems
- photosynthesis
- gas exchange
- precipitation
- xylem water potential
- semiarid zones
- Texas
- introduced species
- phreatophytes
- water relations
- gas exchange
- drought tolerance
- Tamarix gallica L.
- Library Collection RecordIn 1992 and 1993, pastures of WW-Spar Old World bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum L.) were maintained at 2 levels of soil water, rainfall and rainfall plus 25 mm/week of supplementary irrigation. At…Publication Date 2002-05-01
- irrigated conditions
- irrigated pastures
- leaves
- ratios
- stems
- continuous grazing
- Bothriochloa ischaemum
- rain
- leaf area index
- steers
- tillering
- grazing intensity
- plant density
- Texas
- biomass
- plant height
- soil water
- Bothriochloa ischaemum
- continuous variable stocking
- herbage allowance
- Library Collection RecordSnakeweeds (broom, Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt Rusby); and threadleaf, G. microcephala (DC.) Gray) fall into that class of poisonous weeds that seldom cause direct livestock losses because…Publication Date 2002-05-01
- adverse effects
- Gutierrezia
- rats
- rabbits
- gutierrezia microcephala
- carrying capacity
- poisonous weeds
- range condition
- palatability
- herbicides
- weed control
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- prescribed burning
- plant communities
- sheep
- cattle
- range management
- plant competition
- New Mexico
- poisonous plants
- range weed
- livestock grazing
- broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt & Rusby)
- threadleaf snakeweed (Gutierrezia microcephala DC.) Gray)
- Library Collection RecordIn this paper, the linkage between streamflow and shrub cover on rangelands is examined, with a focus on the extensive Texas rangelands dominated by mesquite and juniper. The conclusions drawn are…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- semiarid soils
- stream flow
- subsurface flow
- groundwater flow
- water yield
- Prosopis
- evapotranspiration
- watersheds
- brush control
- watershed hydrology
- runoff
- precipitation
- Texas
- range management
- Juniperus
- water yield
- range hydrology
- runoff
- shrub control
- ecohydrology
- stream flow
- semiarid
- Library Collection RecordAnecdotal evidence suggests that cattle fed alfalfa hay during the winter are inclined to graze locoweed on spring range. Two studies were conducted to compare the influence of feeding alfalfa hay vs…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- indolizidine alkaloids
- alfalfa
- alfalfa hay
- swainsonine
- Oxytropis sericea
- winter
- spring
- selective grazing
- beef cows
- hay
- diets
- prairies
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- feeding preferences
- poisonous plants
- Oxytropis sericea
- alfalfa hay
- grass hay
- cattle
- poisonous plants
- Library Collection RecordWhite locoweed (Oxytropis sericea Nutt. in TG) is widespread throughout the short-grass prairies and mountain grasslands and causes chronic poisoning of cattle, sheep, and horses. The objective of…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- leaf length
- flowering head height
- cutting height
- indolizidine alkaloids
- leaf area
- swainsonine
- age differences
- Oxytropis sericea
- stems
- mortality
- vigor
- precipitation
- drought
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- plant height
- chemical constituents of plants
- poisonous plants
- white locoweed
- Oxytropis sericea
- poisonous plants
- population cycle
- Library Collection RecordRangeland ecological condition was monitored over a 48 year period on 41 sites on Bureau of Land Management rangelands scattered across 6 counties in southwestern New Mexico. All sites were grazed by…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- arid grasslands
- ground cover
- semiarid grasslands
- range condition
- precipitation
- sustainability
- grazing intensity
- plant communities
- drought
- range management
- botanical composition
- New Mexico
- beef cattle
- rangeland condition
- succession
- drought
- grazing management
- plant ecology
- Library Collection RecordAccurate and efficient monitoring of habitat structure on rangelands is important for understanding wildlife responses to land management practices. Unfortunately, studies of wildlife responses to…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- stand structure
- shrublands
- visual obstruction
- Artemisia filifolia
- dimensions
- angle of obstruction
- cone of vulnerability
- habitat structure
- landscape ecology
- habitats
- understory
- Quercus havardii
- Oklahoma
- plant density
- Texas
- canopy
- cone of vulnerability
- gallinaceous bird
- sand shinnery
- vegetation structure
- visual obstruction
- patchiness
- heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordSome recent investigations have shown the visual obstruction (VO) measurement method to be an effective means of estimating herbage standing crop non-destructively in tallgrass prairie. Although the…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- tallgrass prairie
- mixed prairie
- rapid methods
- visual obstruction
- Buchloe dactyloides
- estimation
- shortgrass prairie
- Bouteloua gracilis
- grazing intensity
- Texas
- prairies
- biomass
- mixed prairie
- non-destructive sampling
- Robel pole
- shortgrass
- tallgrass
- Library Collection RecordFires were once a natural part of most savanna ecosystems, but lack of fine fuel and an active suppression policy have changed fire frequency and seasonality. Re-introducing fires to these systems…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- fire intensity
- Acacia
- shrublands
- Prosopis glandulosa
- brush control
- savannas
- ecological succession
- population structure
- shortgrass prairie
- prescribed burning
- forbs
- plant density
- Texas
- botanical composition
- canopy
- grasses
- fire frequency
- seasonality
- prescribed burns
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Acacia
- detrended correspondence analysis
- ordination
- Library Collection RecordBroom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae [Pursh] Britt. Rusby) is a major weed problem in the southwestern U.S. because it is toxic to livestock and suppresses forage productivity. In this study, broom…Publication Date 2002-11-01
- metsulfuron
- flowering date
- aerial spraying
- seedling establishment
- timing
- seed dispersal
- viability
- poisonous weeds
- seed productivity
- weed control
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- seeds
- seedlings
- picloram
- New Mexico
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- reproduction
- seed production
- seed dispersal
- seedling emergence
- seed viability
- herbicide control
- metsulfuron
- picloram
- Library Collection RecordHoney mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.) is a problem plant in much of the southwestern USA because it reduces forage production for livestock, interferes with livestock handling and reduces off-…Publication Date 2003-01-01
- top kill
- basal sprouting
- root-kill
- apical dominance
- aerial spraying
- woody weeds
- herbicide mixtures
- leaf area
- leaves
- clopyralid
- canopy gaps
- Prosopis glandulosa
- triclopyr
- multiple land use
- brush control
- shoots
- mortality
- plant communities
- Texas
- range management
- plant competition
- defoliation
- brush management
- brush sculpting
- canopy cover
- multiple use
- Prosopis glandulosa
- shrubs
- triclopyr
- woody plants
- Library Collection RecordState-and-transition models have received a great deal of attention since the introduction of the concept to range management in 1989. Nonetheless, only recently have sets of state-and-transition…Publication Date 2003-03-01
- community stability
- ecological sites
- ecosystem health
- indicators
- New Mexico
- vegetation dynamics
- Library Collection RecordBroom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae [Pursh] Britt Rusby) propagation was monitored from 1990 through 1998 following burning and herbicide control practices conducted on blue grama (Bouteloua…Publication Date 2000-03-01
- soil temperature
- seedling emergence
- weed control
- mortality
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- fires
- fire effects
- air temperature
- rain
- seedlings
- prescribed burning
- Bouteloua gracilis
- picloram
- establishment
- seasonal variation
- canopy
- New Mexico
- Library Collection RecordBecause of the relatively low cost of seed and ease of establishment, more than 0.4 million ha of weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula (Shrad.) Nees.) were planted on Conservation Reserve Program (…Publication Date 2000-05-01
- land policy
- urea fertilizers
- subsidies
- dryland farming
- costs and returns
- Eragrostis curvula
- sown grasslands
- market prices
- liveweight gain
- continuous grazing
- beef production
- rotational grazing
- application rates
- New Mexico
- beef cattle
- Conservation Reserve Program
- Eragrostis curvula (Shrad.) Ness.
- forage quality
- optimal stocking rates
- dryland farming
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordLivestock producers and others knowledgeable about the locoweed problem in northeastern New Mexico were surveyed to obtain the production information needed to estimate economic losses from locoweed…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- losses
- farmers' income
- estimated costs
- poisoning
- avoidance conditioning
- Oxytropis sericea
- Astragalus mollissimus
- controlled grazing
- poisonous weeds
- mathematical models
- production costs
- liveweight gain
- feedlots
- New Mexico
- beef cattle
- poisonous plants
- woolly locoweed
- Astragulus mollissimus Torr. var mollissimus
- white locoweed
- Oxytropis sericea (Nutt.)
- weed control
- grazing management
- Library Collection RecordRunoff hydrographs from 3 separate rainfall simulation runs at 11 different shortgrass prairie sites were evaluated to determine the hydrologic similarity within a single ecosystem at widely…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- loam soils
- clay soils
- steppe soils
- range condition
- rain
- South Dakota
- runoff
- sandy loam soils
- rainfall simulators
- Texas
- prairies
- biomass
- plant litter
- rangelands
- canopy
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- runoff
- rainfall simulation
- hydrograph
- time-to-peak
- Library Collection RecordRobust needlegrass (Achnatherum robustum [Vasey] Barkw. = Stipa robusta [Vasey] Scribn.) is a high-biomass rangeland species that is adapted to warmer temperatures and matures later than most cool-…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Colorado
- beef cattle
- forage
- Stipa
- dry matter
- feed intake
- feeding preferences
- plant height
- zero grazing
- Elytrigia elongata
- Acremonium
- endophytes
- Leymus chinensis
- ergot alkaloids
- ergometrine
- fungi
- roadside plants
- green fodders
- lysergic acid amide
- Stipa robusta
- Achnatherum robustum
- Acremonium
- ergonovine
- lysergic acid amide
- narcosis
- Neotyphodium
- sleepygrass
- Stipa robusta
- Library Collection RecordAssessment of herbaceous standing crop in heterogeneous range plant communities requires large numbers of samples to account for inherent variability. The dry-weight-rank method (DWR) was developed…Publication Date 2001-01-01
- mixed prairie
- ranking
- rapid methods
- Juniperus pinchotii
- Prosopis glandulosa
- stand characteristics
- estimation
- sampling
- Texas
- prairies
- biomass
- botanical composition
- dry matter
- botanical composition
- estimation
- landscapes
- standing crop proportion
- Library Collection RecordChanges in the amount or spatial distribution of grass plants are thought to be indicative of the stability of desert grasslands. This study assessed, through simulation, the sensitivity of…Publication Date 2001-01-01
- fetch length
- simulation models
- arid grasslands
- deserts
- canopy gaps
- range condition
- length
- sampling
- spatial distribution
- grasses
- New Mexico
- fetch length
- monitoring
- simulation
- Library Collection RecordLittle information is available about seasonal application and carry-over effects of biosolids application to semi-arid grasslands. Biosolids rates of 0 (control), 7, 18, or 34 Mg ha-1 were topically…Publication Date 2001-01-01
- irrigated conditions
- sewage sludge
- waste disposal
- land application
- timing
- grassland improvement
- Hilaria mutica
- mineral content
- semiarid grasslands
- rain
- nitrogen content
- application rates
- Texas
- crop yield
- Hilaria mutica
- Chihuahuan desert grassland
- biosolids surface-application
- biosolids land-application
- irrigation
- standing crop
- forage quality
- carry-over effects
- Library Collection RecordWoody cover, when expressed at the scale of the 207 km2 Cusenbary Draw basin, remained unchanged (approximately 23%) from 1955 to 1990. When expressed at the scale of range sites, woody cover…Publication Date 2001-03-01
- soil depth
- water yield
- water balance
- multiple use
- landscapes
- watershed management
- evapotranspiration
- Prosopis glandulosa
- brush control
- runoff
- woody plants
- precipitation
- spatial distribution
- Texas
- range management
- botanical composition
- Juniperus
- rangelands
- brush management
- evapotranspiration
- GIS and remote sensing
- hydrologic modeling
- semiarid rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPlacing basins in rangeland seedbeds to capture rainfall has enhanced seeded grass establishment, but it has not been practical on debris-littered land following rootplowing for brush control. A disk…Publication Date 2001-03-01
- disc cultivators
- chain diking
- disk chaining
- chains
- Panicum coloratum
- sowing
- seedbed preparation
- grassland improvement
- Prosopis glandulosa
- brush control
- Bothriochloa ischaemum
- precipitation
- plant density
- Texas
- seedbeds
- rangeland seeding
- brush control
- honey mesquite
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Library Collection RecordIt is necessary to quantify rates of woody plant encroachment on southwestern USA rangelands to determine the economic feasibility of treatments designed to manage these plants. This study observed…Publication Date 2001-03-01
- area
- plowing
- root plowing
- woody weeds
- ground cover
- Prosopis glandulosa
- brush control
- precipitation
- spatial distribution
- Texas
- canopy
- honey mesquite
- Prosopis
- density
- shrub encroachment
- aerial photography
- image analysis
- Library Collection RecordCholla cactus may serve as an emergency feedstuff for livestock when forage availability is low. A study was conducted at the Corona Range and Livestock Research Center to evaluate the nutritive…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- processing technology
- spines
- opuntia imbricata
- moisture content
- organic matter
- burning
- leaves
- cows
- mineral content
- stems
- estimation
- fiber content
- feeds
- digestibility
- crude protein
- rumen fermentation
- nutritive value
- livestock
- New Mexico
- forage
- dry matter
- drought forages
- mineral content
- emergency feeding
- Library Collection RecordRedberry juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.) is a noxious shrub or small tree that invades rangelands in northwest Texas. Field reflectance measurements showed that redberry juniper had lower visible…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- infrared radiation
- detection
- color
- aerial photography
- Weeds
- reflectance
- Juniperus pinchotii
- Infestation
- remote sensing
- shrubs
- plant density
- Texas
- botanical composition
- color-infrared photography
- reflectance
- digital image anaysis
- accuracy assessment
- Juniperus
- Library Collection RecordWhite (Oxytropis sericea Nutt. in T. G.) and Lambert (O. lambertii var. biglovii Pursh) locoweed grow adjacent to each other on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains from southeastern Wyoming to…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- flowering date
- Oxytropis lambertii
- pods
- plant development
- developmental stages
- Weeds
- alkaloids
- Infestation
- Oxytropis sericea
- selective grazing
- cattle
- phenology
- New Mexico
- feeding preferences
- poisonous plants
- Oxytropis lambertii
- Oxytropis sericea
- poisonous plants
- cattle grazing
- swainsonine
- Library Collection RecordGoats consume juniper, but toxic terpenoids within the plant limit intake. Our objective was to determine if dosing goats with the adsorptive compound activated charcoal would increase juniper…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- Juniperus ashei
- charcoal
- Juniperus pinchotii
- browse
- adaptation
- terpenoids
- goats
- Texas
- forage
- feed intake
- feeding preferences
- Juniperus
- J. ashei
- J. pinchotii
- Capra
- experience
- preference
- toxicosis
- feedback
- aversions
- browsing
- Library Collection RecordSome grasses harbor endophytic fungi living in intercellular spaces in the leaves, stems and reproductive organs. The fungi can dramatically affect the physiology and ecology of plants. For example,…Publication Date 2001-07-01
- Elymus canadensis
- mutualism
- colonization
- host plants
- Iowa
- plant physiology
- toxins
- plant-water relations
- leaves
- Illinois
- Missouri
- stems
- Kansas
- plant ecology
- incidence
- Nebraska
- herbivores
- Oklahoma
- tillers
- Texas
- prairies
- geographical distribution
- Acremonium
- endophytes
- Elymus canadensis
- Epichlo typhina
- Neotyphodium
- geographical pattern
- mutualism
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordProductivity of Barzona, Brangus, and Beefmaster cattle was evaluated on conservatively (n=2) (40 ha AU-1) and moderately (28.5 ha AU-1) stocked pastures (n=2) in the Chihuahuan Desert of south-…Publication Date 2000-01-01
- cattle breeds
- pregnancy rate
- farm income
- livestock numbers
- weaning weight
- arid grasslands
- arid zones
- production costs
- calves
- continuous grazing
- body weight
- rain
- Brangus
- Beefmaster
- barzona
- stocking rate
- breed differences
- beef cows
- shrubs
- botanical composition
- New Mexico
- beef cattle
- Library Collection RecordRedberry juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.) is a common invasive brush species that reduces rangeland productivity over vast acreages in the Rolling Plains and Edwards Plateau regions of Texas. The…Publication Date 1999-11-01
- chaining
- timing
- Juniperus pinchotii
- costs and returns
- cost-benefit analysis
- brush control
- prescribed burning
- profitability
- biomass production
- Texas
- canopy
- forage
- Library Collection RecordAshe juniper (Juniperus ashei Buchh.) is increasing in density and areal coverage on the Edwards Plateau of Texas. This is causing changes in community leaf area that could impact the ecosystem water…Publication Date 1998-11-01
- area
- Juniperus ashei
- leaf area
- leaves
- water balance
- stems
- estimation
- Texas
- biomass
- canopy
- plant height
- Library Collection RecordTen eastern gamagrass [Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.] entries from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, were evaluated for in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD), protein concentration, lignin…Publication Date 1999-11-01
- phenylalanine ammonia-lyase
- enzyme activity
- geographical variation
- Tripsacum dactyloides
- leaves
- stems
- lignin
- Kansas
- genetic variation
- protein content
- Oklahoma
- in vitro digestibility
- Texas
- maturity stage
- Library Collection RecordCombined with other information, fecal output appears to have potential use in models to predict forage intake. Better understanding of fecal output dynamics relative to forage availability could…Publication Date 1999-05-01
- digestibility markers
- ytterbium
- organic matter
- leaves
- stems
- prediction
- equations
- feces composition
- forbs
- steers
- digestibility
- crude protein
- Texas
- grasses
- dry matter