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- Library Collection RecordAdaptive management of road networks depends on timely data that accurately reflect the impacts those systems are having on ecosystem processes and associated services. In the absence of reliable…Publication Date 2013-05-01
- adaptive management
- assessment
- monitoring
- off-highway vehicles
- oil and gas
- rangeland health
- Library Collection RecordPanels of experts from the Society for Range Management and the National Research Council proposed that status of rangeland ecosystems could be ascertained by evaluating an ecological site's…Publication Date 2002-11-01
- soil surface
- soil structure
- flow resistance
- soil morphology
- gullied land
- wind erosion
- hydrologic factors
- assessment
- rapid methods
- data collection
- ecological balance
- grassland condition
- overland flow
- rill erosion
- ground cover
- grasslands
- range condition
- perennials
- mortality
- vegetation
- biomass production
- range management
- plant litter
- introduced species
- invasive species
- literature reviews
- United States
- soil compaction
- soil stability
- hydrologic function
- biological integrity
- ecosystem status
- erosion
- infiltration
- inventory
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to provide a tool for maintaining a high grazing efficiency. In a rotational grazing system, the residual sward height does not provide enough information in advance…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- France
- assessment
- ewes
- heat sums
- dairy cows
- nitrogen balance
- volume determination
- controlled grazing
- stocking rate
- rotational grazing
- grazing intensity
- biomass
- plant height
- herbage height
- nitrogen
- stocking rate
- management
- dairy farms
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists in the Sahel of northern Africa are entirely dependent on their livestock, which graze on the annual vegetation produced during a relatively short summer rainfall season. The satellite-…Publication Date 1995-03-01
- satellite surveys
- assessment
- Sahel
- Niger
- pastoralism
- carrying capacity
- ground vegetation
- satellite imagery
- stocking rate
- biomass production
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordDetermination of live and dead herbage fractions from mixed herbage samples requires hand separation or specialized laboratory procedures. The constituent differential method is designed to determine…Publication Date 1993-03-01
- assessment
- measurements
- sampling
- forage
- dry matter
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordMethodology for assessing trend in range condition is still evolving. This paper demonstrates use of Dice's community similarity coefficient, 2a/(2a + b + c), with communities present at 3 times…Publication Date 1993-03-01
- assessment
- data analysis
- mathematical models
- plant ecology
- trends
- plant communities
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordThe accuracy of microhistological techniques for analysis of herbivore diets was evaluated with cattle, sheep, and Angora goats fed grass, forb, and shrub mixtures of known botanical compositions.…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- feces analysis
- assessment
- feces composition
- shrubs
- diets
- sheep
- goats
- cattle
- botanical composition
- grasses
- New Mexico
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordAn experiment was conducted to determine whether or not the effects of forage type and time into feeding period precluded use of esophageal extrusa to estimate relative dietary mineral status of…Publication Date 1990-03-01
- foraging period
- wheat
- assessment
- Cynodon dactylon
- nutritional status
- hay
- mineral nutrition
- steers
- diets
- forage
- Library Collection RecordTwo changes in traditional range condition analyses are recom- mended: (1) to replace the terms excellent, good, fair, and poor with ecological equivalents of climax, late seral, mid-seral, and early…Publication Date 1990-11-01
- site class assessment
- assessment
- seral stages
- multiple land use
- site factors
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordA multi-video system that provides immediately useful narrowband black-and-white imagery within the visible to near-infrared light (0.40- to 1.10-micrometer waveband) region of the electromagnetic…Publication Date 1985-09-01
- land resources
- video recorders
- assessment
- image analysis
- remote sensing
- Texas
- range management
- rangelands
- ecology