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- Library Collection RecordThe Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed in northern Mississippi was used to investigate how switching from cultivated land to non-cultivated land, including pastures, alters the amount and rate of…Publication Date 1969
- erosion
- land use
- rainfall
- runoff
- sediment transport
- Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT model)
- watershed
- Library Collection RecordThis opinion paper is a summary of 43 articles outlining the challenges (species of grazing animal and rangeland factors) and how to overcome these challenges to set appropriate stocking rates.Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- livestock production
- range management
- Annual Precipitation
- forage production
- Key Species
- range types
- stocking rates
- Library Collection RecordThe landscape history of the last 150 years was reconstructed by the examination of the sedimentary record of eight small lakes in the northern range of Yellowstone National Park. The purpose was to…Publication Date 1969
- range management
- ungulates
- diatom stratigraphy
- elk populations
- erosion rates
- lead-210 dating
- paleoecology
- paleolimnology
- pollen analysis
- sediment geochemistry
- Yellowstone National Park
- Library Collection RecordThe progression of land use changes in El Dorado County, California from 1957 to 1997 was summarized by cataloging past and present land management practices in addition to associated political…Publication Date 1969
- land management
- land use
- ranching
- conservation
- hardwood rangeland
- political ecology
- Sierra Nevada
- Library Collection RecordA land-use plan and a soil conservation strategy for reducing catastrophic soil erosion in the central eastern area of Nigeria (05Ëš 38’, 7Ëš 07’ N; 06Ëš 36’, 8Ëš 30 Publication Date 1969
- erosion control
- land degradation
- land management
- land use
- Nigeria
- soil conservation
- soil erosion
- water conservation
- soil loss tolerance
- Library Collection RecordRange condition, vegetation production, composition, and cover were compared between lightly and moderately grazed rangelands in the Chihuahuan Desert in southwestern New Mexico to determine if these…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- livestock
- range management
- utilization
- arid lands
- range condition
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordAccording to Trlica and Rittenhouse, grazing is more than just defoliation of plants. Large grazing herbivores change energy balance at the soil surface, create different levels of system…Publication Date 1969
- compensatory growth
- Plant fitness
- range management
- defoliation responses
- grazing avoidance vs. tolerance
- grazing resistance
- hierarchical ecological levels
- information needs of natural resources managers
- plant physiological status
- semi-arid rangelands
- Library Collection RecordIn this Florida study, Steinman et al. used a recently established, replicated cattle ranch to investigate the effects of cattle grazing and pasture land use on invertebrate communities in seasonal…Publication Date 1969
- invertebrates
- nutrients
- land use
- cattle grazing
- Chironomids
- Florida wetlands
- Improved Pasture
- semi-native pasture
- Library Collection RecordPainter and Belsky (1993) use the debate over compensatory growth as the focus for discussion about the development of basic ecological research and its application to rangeland management. They…Publication Date 1969
- grazing systems
- range management
- livestock grazing
- Selectivity
- semi-arid rangelands
- Library Collection RecordEcological research can be misinterpreted by the popular press and misapplied in land management. One example of this concerns the controversial concepts of overcompensation by grazed plants and…Publication Date 1969
- compensatory growth
- overgrazing
- range management
- application of research
- herbivore optimization
- holistic resource management
- livestock grazing
- management of public land
- misinterpreting research results
- semi-arid western rangelands
- shaping public opinions
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, Martorell and Peters measured the impacts of human and livestock disturbance on Mammillaria pectinifera, a threatened Mexican globose cactus. In general, decreases in cactus…Publication Date 1969
- methods
- overgrazing
- land use
- land degradation
- density
- multimetric indices
- Library Collection RecordIntensive rotational grazing was used to see if it could be used as an alternative to costly buffer strips to restore streambanks following continuous grazing. The authors compared bank erosion,…Publication Date 1969
- erosion
- fish
- land use
- riparian vegetation
- streams
- buffer strips
- fish habitat
- index of biotic integrity
- intensive rotational grazing
- Library Collection RecordLaycock states that past history of range management is important in understanding where we are and how we got here. However, dogmatic clinging to the past, has, in some situations, hindered our…Publication Date 1969
- range management
- grazing systems
- climax communities
- monitoring methodology
- rangeland health
- Library Collection RecordHuff and Varley review the information on the subject of natural regeneration in Yellowstone National Park's northern range. The greatest concern to park managers and their critics over recent…Publication Date 1969
- carrying capacity
- overpopulation
- range management
- wildlife management
- herbivory
- elk
- National Park Service
- natural process management
- natural regulation
- policy
- Yellowstone National Park
- Library Collection RecordA 6-year study was conducted in tallgrass prairie to assess the effects of grazing management on plant community composition and diversity. Native plant species diversity, species richness, and…Publication Date 1969
- biodiversity
- plant ecology
- range management
- grazing systems
- cattle grazing
- Flint Hills
- stocking rates
- Library Collection RecordA grazing gradient in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah was identified with field measurements and spectral mixture analysis (SMA) of remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery. Grazing…Publication Date 1969
- land degradation
- land use
- overgrazing
- rangelands
- grazing gradient
- hyperspectral
- imaging spectroscopy
- Library Collection RecordRanching is the dominant land use in much of the American West. Although a copious literature has examined the effects of various grazing practices on native ecosystems, Freilich et al. present that…Publication Date 1969
- biodiversity
- grazing
- ranching
- range management
- Library Collection RecordA Stipa-Bouteloua community, cultivated in the autumn of 1928 and abandoned in the spring of 1932, reverted to a community dominated by needle-and-thread (Stipa comata). An exclosure to prevent…Publication Date 1969
- botanical composition
- organic matter
- range management
- aeration of soil
- rangeland
- soil quality
- Library Collection RecordBattigelli et al. claimed that cattle grazing at a stocking rate of 2 AUM/ha can have an adverse affect on soil quality. In their study, they found soil mites evenly distributed throughout the soil…Publication Date 1969
- Soil fauna
- Prostigmata
- Acari
- range management
- mesofauna
- Library Collection RecordA long standing question in range management is the relative importance of the stocking rate versus the length of time of a grazing event. Batabyal et al. address this question by constructing a…Publication Date 1969
- stocking rate
- Time
- range management
- long run expected net unit cost (LRENC)
- modeling