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- Library Collection RecordJourdonnais and Bedunah applied prescribed fire and fall cattle-grazing treatments, during fall 1983 and spring 1984, on a rough fescue (Festuca scabrella) community to reduce litter accumulations…Publication Date 1969
- burning
- cattle grazing
- elk utilization
- Festuca idahoensis
- Festuca scabrella
- Idaho fescue
- rough fescue
- Library Collection RecordJourdonnais and Bedunah assessed the use of prescribed fire and cattle grazing in the dormant season to try and improve forage quality for elk in the Sun River Wildlife Management Area. The…Publication Date 1969
- bunchgrass
- cattle grazing
- elk management
- fire
- Litter Accumulation
- rough fescue
- Library Collection RecordJoseph et al. ,found that mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) preferred mid-seral pastures that were moderately grazed by cattle (Bos taurus) compared to heavily grazed, early-seral pastures. Mid-…Publication Date 1969
- arid lands
- cattle grazing
- croton pottsii
- Leatherleaf croton
- upland game bird
- Zenaida macroura
- Library Collection RecordHerbivores influence growth, recruitment, and mortality rates of plants and may do so in ways correlated with plant density, frequency, or other neighborhood traits, or with competitive abilities.…Publication Date 1969
- biodiversity
- vegetation
- competition
- disturbance
- frequency-dependence
- Library Collection RecordOver an 11-year period, willow (Salix spp.) population characteristics were recorded after 4 different treatments: long term exclosure, long term grazing, recent exclosure and recent grazing. Results…Publication Date 1969
- Salix
- population dynamics
- cattle grazing
- grazing exclusion
- riparian areas
- willow height
- Library Collection RecordReview of several types of disturbances on the health and invasibility of natural plant communities. In the grazing section of the paper, the authors state that grazing is only detrimental in areas…Publication Date 1969
- species diversity
- grazing
- disturbance
- Ecosystem function
- historical use
- invasibility
- 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 RecordIn plots where cattle (Bos taurus) grazing was excluded, small mammals were 50% more abundant than in areas where grazing was present. All species caught were found on both the grazed and ungrazed…Publication Date 1969
- deserts
- New Mexico
- Baiomys taylori
- cattle grazing
- cotton rat
- Reithrodontomys megalotis
- riparian areas
- Sigmodon hispidus
- Southwestern United States
- Taylor's pygmy mice
- western harvest mice
- Library Collection RecordGreen and Kauffman examined species frequency, richness, evenness, and utilization in grazed pastures and ungrazed exclosures in 8 plant communities, over a 10 year period, in a northeastern Oregon…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- species diversity
- community succession
- disturbance
- riparian
- Library Collection RecordThe grazing portion of this study suggests that heavy grazing had a negative effect on the abundance of three sparrow species, grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum), Baird's sparrow (…Publication Date 1969
- aimophila cassinnii
- Ammodramus bairdil
- ammodramus savannarum
- Baird's sparrow
- bird-banding
- Cassin's sparrow
- cattle grazing
- conservation
- grasshopper sparrow
- Library Collection RecordGlenn et al. measured plant community composition, at the local and regional scale, following no disturbance, grazing, burning, or grazing and burning of tallgrass prairie pastures in Kansas.…Publication Date 1969
- plant communities
- disturbance
- heterogeneity
- hierarchy
- scale
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordFehmi et al. looked at the possible effects of cattle on the abundance of California ground squirrels in Del Valle Park, California. The presence of light to moderate cattle grazing seemed to have…Publication Date 1969
- burrow patterns
- California grasslands
- cattle grazing
- oak savanna
- Library Collection RecordCollins and Barber measured the effects of grazing, fire, buffalo wallows, and prairie dog towns on grassland plant community dynamics in an area of mixed-grass prairie, in southwestern Oklahoma.…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- Oklahoma
- buffalo wallows
- disturbance
- diversity
- fire
- grassland
- prairie dog town
- Library Collection RecordThis study evaluated how white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) home ranges, movement indices and forage availability were effected by short-duration grazing (SDG) and continuous grazing (CG) by…Publication Date 1969
- continuous grazing
- Odocoileus virginianus
- cattle grazing
- home range
- movement indices
- short-duration grazing
- Library Collection RecordCoffin et al. evaluated the importance of disturbance intensity and herbivory by cattle and white grubs, or the larvae of June beetles, to recovery of shortgrass steppe ecosystems in Colorado over a…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- cattle grazing
- June beetle larvae
- root feeders
- shortgrass steppe
- succession
- Library Collection RecordIn this Colorado study, authors applied a gap dynamics conceptualization of succession to a semiarid grassland, by focusing on gaps produced in the belowground resource space by death of an…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- Aboveground Biomass
- blue grama
- disturbance
- gap dynamics
- simulation model
- succession
- Library Collection RecordIn this Colorado study, Coffin and Lauenroth evaluate the effects of interactions among disturbance characteristics on the successional dynamics of small scale disturbances in shortgrass steppe plant…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- animal burrows
- ant mounds
- disturbance
- grassland
- succession
- Library Collection RecordCoffin and Lauenroth evaluated the effects of spatially-explicit processes on the recovery of Bouteloua gracilis after disturbances using a modification of a gap dynamics simulation model, developed…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- blue grama
- disturbance
- gap dynamics
- grassland
- simulation model
- succession
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, Cibils et al. determined Atriplex canescens sizes, ages and sex ratios in pastures that were summer grazed, winter grazed, or ungrazed for 20 years. Ungrazed shrubs were the largest…Publication Date 1969
- Atriplex canescens
- cattle grazing
- shrub ages
- shrub sex ratios
- Library Collection RecordLesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) disturb aquatic and semi-aquatic plant species while foraging in the saltmarsh regions of La Perouse Bay, on the Hudson Bay coast. The production…Publication Date 1969
- foraging
- Chen caerulescens caerulescens
- clonal reproduction
- disturbance
- lesser snow geese
- saltmarsh graminoids
- vegetative propagules
- Library Collection RecordCarlson and Crist investigated plant responses to gopher (Thomomys talpoides attenuatus) mounds, as they vary in topography and grazing history (light or heavy grazing by cattle). There were more…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- blue grama
- cattle grazing
- disturbance area
- plant community
- Pocket Gopher
- shortgrass steppe
- Thomomys talpoides attenuatus
- Library Collection RecordCampbell-Kissock et al. compared the diets of bobwhites and scaled quail in cattle grazed pastures of southwest Texas. They found little dietary overlap for these birds during the fall-winter season…Publication Date 1969
- cattle grazing
- Desert Grassland
- diet selection
- dietary overlap
- Library Collection RecordThe role of cattle in facilitating the ingress and establishment of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) has broader implications with regard to the conversion of grasslands to woodlands. On the site with…Publication Date 1969
- dung
- grazing
- mesquite
- disturbance
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Rio Grande Plains
- succession
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this study was to determine if any of four grazing treatments had an effect on upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) nest density and nest success. Nest density was lower for…Publication Date 1969
- stocking density
- Bartramia longicauda
- cattle grazing
- mixed-grass prairie
- nest density
- nesting success
- Library Collection RecordThe model developed in this study found that wildlife habitat could be improved by reducing cattle (Bos taurus) grazing intensity from 556 AUMs to 325 AUMs on the study site. Heavy grazing pressure…Publication Date 1969
- Odocoileus virginianus
- cattle grazing
- Colinus virginianus
- economic tradeoffs
- northern bobwhite
- white-tailed deer
- Library Collection RecordBeever et al. examined disturbance created by feral horses (Equus caballus), in 9 mountain ranges of the western Great Basin, USA, in Nevada, using plants, mammals, ants, and soil compaction, as…Publication Date 1969
- Equus caballus
- grazing
- monitoring
- Nevada
- broad spatial scales
- disturbance
- feral horses
- Great Basin
- landscape ecology
- reciprocal averaging
- semiarid ecosystems
- TWINSPAN
- Library Collection RecordAustin and Pyle looked at the habitat selection of small mammals in a montane wet meadow as effected by cattle grazing and fall burning on the Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Idaho. All…Publication Date 1969
- Microhabitat
- capture rates
- cattle grazing
- population declines
- soil wetness
- Library Collection RecordDepending on the scale of observation and on the factors that determine animal distribution, grazing patterns may be stronger or weaker than vegetation patterns, or may mirror the spatial structure…Publication Date 1969
- herbivory
- competition
- disturbance
- spatial dependence
- spatial heterogeneity