Rangeland Ecology & Management
Get reliable science
Toggle Search
Result Type
Collection
Keywords
Document Type
Displaying 151 - 200 of 572 results
- Library Collection RecordThe decision to use double sampling with a regression or ratio estimator is not a simple task. This study was conducted to determine whether a ratio or regression estimator should be used to estimate…Publication Date 1993-01-01
- Monte Carlo method
- bootstrap variance estimates
- jackknife variance estimates
- variance
- regression analysis
- estimation
- vegetation
- sampling
- Bouteloua gracilis
- biomass
- Library Collection RecordEditorial on "An evaluation of sample adequacy for point analysis of ground cover," Journal of Range Management, vol. 43, p. 545-549. This material was digitized as part of a cooperative…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- size
- public opinion
- mined soils
- ground cover
- reclamation
- statistical analysis
- vegetation
- sampling
- Library Collection RecordCattle are selective foragers in response to several plant attributes. We tested hypotheses that caespitose plants of various basal areas were equally susceptible to herbivory and were defoliated…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- size
- Agropyron desertorum
- palatability
- Oregon
- cattle feeding
- grazing behavior
- grazing
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordThirteen grazing studies have recently documented diet botanical composition of cattle in tall forb plant communities on mountain rangelands. In forb-dominated plant communities, cattle selected…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- grazing trials
- mountain grasslands
- cattle feeding
- plant communities
- diets
- botanical composition
- Montana
- rangelands
- grazing
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordThis study was initiated to determine the effects of defoliation frequency (based on amount of growth present), intensity, and length of grazing season on quantity and quality of big bluestem (…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- carbohydrates
- persistence
- Missouri
- protein content
- cutting frequency
- Andropogon gerardii
- crude protein
- grazing intensity
- in vitro digestibility
- defoliation
- quality
- grazing
- simulation
- forage
- Library Collection RecordChanges in rangeland vegetation integrate the consequences of livestock grazing intensity and possible climate change, as well as other factors. Because vegetation changes tend to be very slow in dry…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- xerophytes
- Krascheninnikovia
- Hilaria
- change
- Hilaria jamesii
- eremosemium spinosa
- Achnatherum hymenoides
- ecological succession
- Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
- vegetation
- Artemisia tridentata
- plant communities
- rangelands
- Utah
- livestock
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordOne experiment involving steers fed low-quality grass diets singly and mixed with native forbs, native shrubs, or alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) was conducted to compare the influence of these diets on…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- croton pottsii
- ammonia
- native plants
- volatile fatty acids
- Sphaeralcea coccinea
- Medicago sativa
- dietary fiber
- Atriplex canescens
- Croton
- steers
- digestibility
- digesta
- kinetics
- pH
- cattle feeding
- shrubs
- diets
- rumen fermentation
- rangelands
- Cercocarpus montanus
- New Mexico
- forage
- Library Collection RecordLehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees), a perennial bunchgrass from southern Africa, is replacing native grasses in Arizona. After the invasion, biomass production and quality may change.…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- seedheads
- leaves
- stems
- protein content
- phosphorus
- animal nutrition
- crude protein
- biomass production
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- nutritive value
- quality
- forage
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordBecause of the ongoing controversy about shrub forage value for different ungulates and significance of the shrub communities for spring-fall grazing in southcentral Wyoming, the relative importance…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- livestock-wildlife relationships
- common use grazing
- common lands
- wildlife
- Purshia tridentata
- browse plants
- Cervus elaphus
- Antilocapra americana
- mountain grasslands
- Wyoming
- Artemisia tridentata
- plant communities
- Odocoileus hemionus
- shrubs
- diets
- sheep
- cattle
- rangelands
- grasses
- forage
- Library Collection RecordLittle evidence has been found to relate fire intensity to herbaceous vegetation response. Our objective was to determine if components of post-fire herbaceous standing crop in a tallgrass prairie…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- canonical correlation
- fire behavior
- fire intensity
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- vegetation
- regrowth
- Oklahoma
- plant communities
- prairies
- rangelands
- grasses
- forage
- Library Collection RecordEditorial reply to "Viewpoint: sample adequacy for point analysis depends on the objectives," Journal of Range Management, vol. 45, no. 6, p. 595. This material was digitized as part of a…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- size
- public opinion
- mined soils
- ground cover
- reclamation
- statistical analysis
- vegetation
- sampling
- Library Collection RecordRussian thistle (Salsola iberica Sennen and Pau), a common weed found on overgrazed rangelands, abandoned farmlands, and other disturbed sites in the western United States, is often grazed by…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- sodium chloride
- nitrates
- oxalates
- nutrient solutions
- salinity
- saline water
- Salsola tragus
- calcium chloride
- salt stress
- lignin
- cell wall components
- fiber content
- nitrogen
- water quality
- nutritive value
- quality
- New Mexico
- forage
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordEffects of burning, mowing, and 2,4-D on antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata Pursh.) nutrient contents were evaluated in southcentral Wyoming. During the first growing season following…Publication Date 1992-09-01
- mowing
- 2,4-D
- crop quality
- ash
- Purshia tridentata
- fires
- fire effects
- pastures
- winter
- prescribed burning
- phosphorus
- summer
- Wyoming
- in vitro digestibility
- nitrogen content
- range management
- seasonal variation
- nutritive value
- forage
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordBecause of widespread concern about cattle grazing effects on riparian zones of public lands, seasonal habitat selection by cattle was studied along a cold desert area ephemeral waterway of…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- crop quality
- streams
- habitat selection
- highlands
- protein content
- riparian buffers
- crude protein
- Wyoming
- grazing behavior
- cattle
- seasonal variation
- grazing
- forage
- dry matter
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordPopular assumptions about ecosystem stability and the delicate balance of nature are found lacking when examined in terms of paleoecological, historical and current biochronological, and…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- biogeography
- extinction
- Larrea tridentata
- Weeds
- ecosystems
- biological control
- evolution
- paleoecology
- climax communities
- vegetation management
- plant ecology
- population dynamics
- vegetation
- botanical composition
- Library Collection RecordAccumulation of wolf plants in rangeland pastures frequently results in waste or incomplete utilization of high quality forage by cattle. The objective of this research was to establish the degree of…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- crop growth stage
- Agropyron desertorum
- palatability
- grazing behavior
- cattle
- plant density
- phenology
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordA 3-year field study was conducted near Grassrange, Montana. (Latitude 46 degrees 50'N and Longitude 108 degrees 50'W) to determine the effect of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) shoot…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- Euphorbia esula
- weed control
- chemical control
- pastures
- grazing behavior
- cattle
- plant density
- picloram
- Montana
- forage
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrasses (Agropyron spp.) are grown on 6 million ha in the U.S. and Canada, where they provide excellent early-season forage, but lose nutritional quality by midsummer. Some producers…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- crop quality
- grass tetany
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron fragile
- Agropyron cristatum
- regrowth
- phosphorus
- calcium
- crude protein
- in vitro digestibility
- nitrogen content
- seasonal variation
- crop yield
- nutritive value
- Utah
- forage
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordTwo simulated pasture studies were carried out at Swift Current, Sask., to determine the effects of date and height of first harvest in the year following establishment on the yield of 4 species in…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- dryland conditions
- cutting height
- Leymus angustus
- Medicago sativa
- timing
- Psathyrostachys juncea
- Agropyron desertorum
- cutting date
- Saskatchewan
- regrowth
- dry environmental conditions
- crop yield
- pasture plants
- grazing
- simulation
- forage
- Library Collection RecordLand managers of salt desert shrub and sagebrush steppe vegetation have concerns regarding appropriate stocking rates in summer for ephemeral stream riparian zones because of elevated levels of use…Publication Date 1992-07-01
- Populus deltoides
- crop quality
- streams
- habitat selection
- highlands
- protein content
- riparian buffers
- stocking rate
- crude protein
- Wyoming
- plant communities
- grazing behavior
- cattle
- seasonal variation
- forage
- dry matter
- Library Collection RecordPonderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) overstory-forage understory relationships were studied on the Kaibab Plateau of northern Arizona to evaluate how well forage (graminoid, forb, and current year…Publication Date 1992-05-01
- stand density
- stand structure
- understory
- mathematical models
- prediction
- indexes
- Pinus ponderosa
- regression analysis
- crop production
- canopy
- Arizona
- forage
- Library Collection RecordTo help local Niger government authorities and donor countries ameliorate conditions in the advent of drought, a rapid yet simple means to assess annual herbaceous production at the end of the rainy…Publication Date 1992-05-01
- Sahel
- Niger
- mathematical models
- prediction
- meteorological data
- regression analysis
- rain
- crop production
- biomass
- rangelands
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe usefulness of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) for predicting diet quality of free-ranging cattle through fecal analysis was examined. Diet samples were obtained with esophageal…Publication Date 1992-05-01
- organic matter
- protein content
- prediction
- feces
- infrared spectroscopy
- steers
- digestibility
- crude protein
- diets
- Texas
- nutritive value
- grazing
- beef cattle
- forage
- Library Collection RecordIn vitro and in vivo digestion trials with lambs were conducted to determine effects of ponderosa pine needles (PN; Pinus ponderosa Laws.) on digestibility of crested wheatgrass (CW; Agropyron…Publication Date 1992-05-01
- nitrogen retention
- lambs
- toxicity
- conifer needles
- Agropyron desertorum
- Pinus ponderosa
- fiber content
- digestibility
- crude protein
- diets
- in vitro digestibility
- forage
- Library Collection RecordFrom a planting of antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata Purshia DC) and 'Hobble Creek' mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana Rydb. Beetle), pairs of plants were…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- monoterpenoids
- Purshia tridentata
- palatability
- winter
- Artemisia tridentata
- Odocoileus hemionus
- Utah
- forage
- feeding preferences
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordStudies were made at 2 rangeland areas in south Texas to measure canopy cover and distribution with an airborne laser profiler. In a comparison of laser and ground measurements of canopy cover on the…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- lasers
- evapotranspiration
- measurements
- remote sensing
- vegetation
- shrubs
- spatial distribution
- Texas
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordTwo experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of restricted forage intake on patterns of chromium excretion to determine sample window duration and the accuracy and precision of fecal…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- chromium
- captec bolus
- boluses
- excretion
- estimation
- feces composition
- sampling
- steers
- cattle feeding
- quality
- beef cattle
- forage
- feed intake
- Library Collection RecordIn vivo digestibility trials involving cattle (steers) and goats (wethers) fed shrub and nonshrub mixtures were conducted to evaluate the potential of fecal output, fecal nitrogen output, and fecal…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- energy metabolism
- wethers
- excretion
- Sphaeralcea coccinea
- nitrogen metabolism
- Atriplex canescens
- estimation
- feces composition
- Croton
- steers
- digestibility
- shrubs
- goats
- nutritive value
- quality
- Cercocarpus montanus
- New Mexico
- beef cattle
- forage
- feed intake
- 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 RecordTwo experiments with steers were conducted to evaluate the influence of native forbs and shrubs on nitrogen utilization by cattle. Diets in Exp. 1 were blue grams (Bouteloua gracilis [H.B.K.]) (BG),…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- barley straw
- croton pottsii
- nitrogen retention
- Hordeum vulgare
- Sphaeralcea coccinea
- nitrogen metabolism
- Medicago sativa
- alfalfa
- alfalfa hay
- Atriplex canescens
- Croton
- hay
- steers
- cattle feeding
- Bouteloua gracilis
- shrubs
- rangelands
- nutritive value
- quality
- Cercocarpus montanus
- New Mexico
- beef cattle
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe concept of market interdependence is defined in this paper as the influence that public market quantity allocations and pricing decisions have on observed quantity and price in private markets.…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- market
- private sector
- public sector
- market interdependence
- fair market value
- malheur national wildlife refuge
- federal government
- regulation
- econometric models
- market prices
- Oregon
- United States
- forage
- Library Collection RecordPaper presented at the "Symposium on Ingestion of Poisonous Plants by Livestock," February 15, 1990, Reno, Nevada. A diverse array of secondary metabolites deters feeding by mammals on…Publication Date 1992-01-01
- mammals
- woody plants
- environmental factors
- tannins
- digestion
- herbivores
- regrowth
- secondary metabolites
- defense mechanisms
- browsing damage
- browsing
- forage
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordPaper presented at the "Symposium on Ingestion of Poisonous Plants by Livestock," February 15, 1990, Reno, Nevada. Tannins are a diverse group of compounds which precipitate protein. The…Publication Date 1992-01-01
- gallotannins
- metabolic detoxification
- molecular weight
- tannins
- digestion
- herbivores
- ruminants
- digestibility
- forage
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordPaper presented at the "Symposium on Ingestion of Poisonous Plants by Livestock," February 15, 1990, Reno, Nevada. Livestock poisoning by plants is one of the serious causes of economic…Publication Date 1992-01-01
- livestock and meat industry
- losses
- economic impact
- toxicity
- Western United States
- sheep
- cattle
- forage
- poisonous plants
- Library Collection RecordCottonseed hull fragments were identified in feces collected for the first 14 of 17 days after ingestion of 1 g cottonseed hulls by each of 4 adult nude white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus).…Publication Date 1992-01-01
- cottonseed hulls
- estimation
- duration
- feces composition
- Odocoileus virginianus
- digestion
- digestibility
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe Sandy Ridge Site of southern New Mexico was studied to determine the dependance of total standing crop and components of standing crop on range condition rating. Total standing crop which…Publication Date 1991-11-01
- Prosopis glandulosa
- ecological succession
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- New Mexico
- forage
- Library Collection RecordFreeze drying, conventional oven drying, and microwave oven drying were compared with respect to their effect on the chemical composition of native range forage and feces from cattle grazing the…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- convection dryers
- freeze drying
- forage dryers
- microwave dryers
- drying
- feces composition
- fiber content
- feces
- chemical composition
- pastures
- cattle
- forage
- Library Collection RecordTwo trials were conducted to compare diet samples collected in the evacuated rumen or through the esophageal fistula. Hypotheses tested were (1) rumen evacuation would not decrease selectivity, (2)…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- rumen
- fistulation
- grazing trials
- rumen contents
- chemical composition
- sampling
- esophagus
- cattle
- forage
- feed intake
- Library Collection RecordDissatisfaction persists with current approaches to range condition and trend assessment. Sometimes assessed condition does not truly represent the past or the potential of range. One of the likely…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- ordination
- site factors
- classification
- plant ecology
- ecological succession
- vegetation
- environmental factors
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordLive oak (Quercus virginiana Mill.) competes with herbaceous plants, but provides browse and mast for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimmerman). We determined the effects of treating live…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- grassland improvement
- nutritional status
- browse
- Quercus virginiana
- foraging
- tebuthiuron
- woodland grasslands
- weed control
- yields
- Odocoileus virginianus
- biomass production
- Texas
- botanical composition
- browsing
- grasses
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigated the effect of grazing by California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana) on plant community structure. Over 28 months from 1977 to 1979, bighorn diet consisted of 79…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- Ovis canadensis
- Ovis canadensis californiana
- community ecology
- British Columbia
- grasslands
- plant ecology
- species diversity
- ecological succession
- feces composition
- vigor
- plant communities
- shrubs
- botanical composition
- grazing
- grasses
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordWeeping lovegrass [Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees.] provides high quality forage during May, but growth of floral stems causes a rapid decline in forage quality. The study objective was to…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- mefluidide
- heading
- floral stems
- heading date
- leaves
- application timing
- Eragrostis curvula
- stems
- yields
- crude protein
- in vitro digestibility
- application rates
- phenology
- forage
- Library Collection RecordEsophageal fistulated animals are used to collect samples of the forage being consumed by animals in grazing experiments. Four principal hypotheses (H) can be tested in esophageal trials: (1)…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- livestock feeding
- fistulation
- clipping
- experimental design
- grazing trials
- statistical analysis
- pastures
- sampling
- esophagus
- livestock
- forage
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordVegetational response of a nine-paddock, short-duration grazing cell was compared to that of a continuous pasture for a 5-year period in southcentral New Mexico. Differences in vegetational response…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- grazing time
- vegetation cover
- standing crop
- stocking rate
- pastures
- vegetation
- Bouteloua gracilis
- biomass production
- grazing intensity
- cattle
- biomass
- range management
- botanical composition
- grazing
- New Mexico
- Library Collection RecordThe dry-weight rank technique has been used to measure vegetation in various habitats but has not been evaluated in desert shrub habitats. We sampled browse, forb, and grass in the palo-verde (…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- Sonoran Desert
- ranking
- xerophytes
- mountains
- deserts
- semi-desert scrub
- browse
- measurements
- plant ecology
- sampling
- slopes
- grasses
- Arizona
- forage
- dry matter
- Library Collection RecordThirty-six wethers were used in 3 trials to compare estimates of fecal output using chromic oxide either in a continuous-release bolus or dosed twice daily. Wethers were confined in metabolism crates…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- continuous release bolus
- fecal output
- boluses
- chromic oxide
- dosage
- feces composition
- feces
- sheep
- forage
- feed intake
- Library Collection RecordTall-forb communities occur an deep soils of the upper montane and subalpine zones of the Rocky Mountains and extend from southwestern Montana to southern Utah. In the Centennial Mountains of Montana…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- geranium viscosissimum
- 2,4-D
- grassland improvement
- Geranium
- vegetation management
- species diversity
- weed control
- yields
- mountain grasslands
- biomass production
- plant communities
- picloram
- application rates
- Montana
- forage
- Library Collection RecordInterest in evaluating theoretical considerations in traditional methods of determining range condition have increased recently with application of different analytical techniques. In this study, the…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- cluster analysis
- quantitative climax approach
- deserts
- land classification
- secondary succession
- spatial variation
- climax communities
- grasslands
- plant ecology
- ecological succession
- pastures
- biomass production
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- New Mexico
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of late-autumn cattle grazing on plant biomass was examined in a western Great Plains cottonwood riparian zone prone to catastrophic flooding every 5-8 years. Following 1 year of pre-…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- autumn
- Populus
- floodplains
- Spartina
- Spartina pectinata
- environmental impact
- community ecology
- Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera
- standing biomass
- community composition
- riparian grasslands
- Salix
- leaves
- controlled grazing
- plant ecology
- flooding
- riparian buffers
- biomass production
- cattle
- biomass
- botanical composition
- grazing
- Colorado
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe government must manage public rangeland in the face of alternative multiple use interests, including wildlife and domestic livestock production. The objectives of this study were to estimate a…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- linear programming
- mixed grazing
- production possibilities
- economic benefits
- production possibilities frontier
- marginal rates of substitution
- marginal returns
- animal production
- multiple land use
- cost-benefit analysis
- stocking rate
- Antilocapra americana
- biomass production
- Wyoming
- grazing intensity
- cattle
- range management
- rangelands
- forage
Pagination
- First page
- Previous page
- …
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- …
- Next page
- Last page