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- Library Collection RecordFeral horses inhabit rangeland ecosystems around the world, and their impacts on riparian ecosystems are poorly understood. We characterized impacts of a free-ranging horse population on the…Publication Date 2017
- bare ground
- herbivory
- Springs
- wild horses
- wildlife habitat
- Library Collection RecordThere is a concern about the lack of regeneration of riparian hardwood forest communities in the Middle Sheyenne River Watershed of northeastern North Dakota. Natural resource managers and landowners…Publication Date 2017
- wildlife management
- riparian forests
- watersheds
- ungulate
- herbivory
- tree seedlings
- regeneration
- North Dakota
- Middle Sheyenne River Watershed
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Quaking aspen is widely regarded as a key resource for humans, livestock, and wildlife with these values often competing with each other, leading to overuse of aspen in some locations…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Populus tremuloides
- ungulate
- herbivory
- fire
- biodiversity
- research
- Library Collection RecordCompensatory increases in net photosynthetic assimilation rates (Anet) following herbivory are well documented in adult rangeland grasses but have not been quantified in bunchgrass seedlings, which…Publication Date 2016
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- crested wheatgrass
- herbivory
- photosynthesis
- root-shoot ratios
- sagebrush steppe
- Library Collection RecordMillions of hectares of sagebrush (Artemisia L.) plant communities have been degraded by past improper management, resulting in dense sagebrush stands with depleted herbaceous understories. Rest from…Publication Date 2016
- Artemisia tridentata
- defoliation
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- recovery
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordTargeted grazing uses livestock to address woody plant encroachment, flammable biomass accumulations, exotic weed invasions, and other management issues. In principle, a feature distinguishing…Publication Date 2016
- herbivory
- invasive weed
- Leafy spurge
- prescribed grazing
- simulated grazing
- targeted grazing
- Library Collection RecordRangeland management practices such as burning and grazing may affect the development, survival, and reproduction of grasshopper populations. Experiments in the northern Great Plains that examine…Publication Date 2016
- drought
- grasshopper
- grassland
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- prescribed burn
- Library Collection RecordCompensatory increases in net photosynthetic assimilation rates (Anet) following herbivory are well documented in adult rangeland grasses but have not been quantified in bunchgrass seedlings, which…Publication Date 2016
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- crested wheatgrass
- herbivory
- photosynthesis
- root-shoot ratios
- sagebrush steppe
- Library Collection RecordMillions of hectares of sagebrush (Artemisia L.) plant communities have been degraded by past improper management, resulting in dense sagebrush stands with depleted herbaceous understories. Rest from…Publication Date 2016
- Artemisia tridentata
- defoliation
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- recovery
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordTargeted grazing uses livestock to address woody plant encroachment, flammable biomass accumulations, exotic weed invasions, and other management issues. In principle, a feature distinguishing…Publication Date 2016
- herbivory
- invasive weed
- Leafy spurge
- prescribed grazing
- simulated grazing
- targeted grazing
- Library Collection RecordRangeland management practices such as burning and grazing may affect the development, survival, and reproduction of grasshopper populations. Experiments in the northern Great Plains that examine…Publication Date 2016
- drought
- grasshopper
- grassland
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- prescribed burn
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • We completed a landscape-scale assessment of ungulate browsing pressure on the southeastern portion of the Bighorn National Forest and found evidence of constraints on willow…Publication Date 2014-12-01
- riparian willow
- herbivory
- browsing pressure
- ungulates
- beaver
- cascading ecosystem effects
- riparian ecosystem state
- Bighorn Mountains
- Wyoming
- Library Collection RecordMost wildfires occur during summer in the northern hemisphere, the area burned annually is increasing, and fire effects during this season are least understood. Understanding plant response to…Publication Date 2014-01
- drought
- grassland
- herbivory
- prescribed burn
- productivity
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordMost wildfires occur during summer in the northern hemisphere, the area burned annually is increasing, and fire effects during this season are least understood. Understanding plant response to…Publication Date 2014-01
- drought
- grassland
- herbivory
- prescribed burn
- productivity
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordTraditional upland livestock grazing is declining worldwide, leading to concerns about possible impacts on biodiversity. Although monitoring of protected areas often focuses on rare species,…Publication Date 2013-07-01
- field methods
- herbivory
- joint learning
- rangelands
- stakeholder participation
- structural heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Managers charged with managing landscapes influenced by elk are challenged to establish monitoring protocols that identify when impacts are responsible for declining ecological…Publication Date 2013-06-01
- trampling
- herbivory
- plant communities
- elk
- winter range
- Library Collection RecordUsing Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on…Publication Date 2013
- herbivory
- appropriate management level
- Fertility Management
- genetic diversity
- United States
- Western United States
- wild burros
- wild horses
- Library Collection RecordFire and herbivory are the main disturbances shaping the structure of savannas. In these ecosystems, the key strategies by which woody plants escape fire are either early height growth (the lanky…Publication Date 2013
- African savannas
- bark thickness
- cerrado
- consumer control
- disturbance regime
- fire intensity
- fire-escape strategies
- herbivory
- plant development and life-history traits
- tree height
- savanna
- fire ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHerbivores influence the structure and composition of terrestrial plant communities. However, responses of plant communities to herbivory are variable and depend on environmental conditions,…Publication Date 2013
- abiotic gradients
- community structure
- exclosure experiment
- herbivory
- livestock-wildlife interactions
- plant species richness
- plant-herbivore interactions
- wildlife decline
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- soils
- rainfall
- biodiversity
- East Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpecies richness of plants generally decreases along elevational gradients or peaks at intermediate elevations. Land use including grazing by wild and domestic herbivores also affects plant…Publication Date 2013
- beta diversity
- buffering
- climate warming
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- herbivory
- homogenization
- land use
- species richness
- stability
- turnover
- globale warming
- grazing
- Norway
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordRiparian ecosystems provide many ecosystem services, including serving as an important forage resource for livestock grazing operations. We evaluated defoliation impacts on above- and belowground…Publication Date 2012-07-01
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- photosynthesis
- riparian areas
- root production
- water table
- Library Collection RecordSavannah ecosystems exhibit constant transitions between states dominated by trees and states dominated by a combination of trees and grasses. Transitions between these states are driven by…Publication Date 2012
- Antelope
- habitat management
- herbivore
- herbivory
- savannah ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt has been proposed that, across broad spatial scales, climatic factors are the main drivers of ecological patterns, while biotic factors are mainly important at local spatial scales. However, few…Publication Date 2012
- diversity patterns
- herbivory
- plant–herbivore interactions
- Quaternary climate change
- resource–consumer relationships
- savanna species
- Speciation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTheory and observation indicate that changes in the rate of primary production can alter the balance between the bottom-up influences of plants and resources and the top-down regulation of herbivores…Publication Date 2012
- Arctic LTER
- Toolik Lake
- Alaska
- USA
- arctic tundra ecosystem
- biomass
- Caribou
- EEH
- exploitation ecosystem hypothesis
- food web
- herbivory
- nematode
- nutrients
- predators
- productivity
- vole
- Toolik Lake
- Alaska
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe intentional introduction of specialist insect herbivores for biological control of exotic weeds provides ideal but understudied systems for evaluating important ecological concepts related to top…Publication Date 2012
- biological control
- Centaurea maculosa
- Centaurea stoebe
- compensation
- context dependence
- Cyphocleonus achates
- exotic plant
- herbivory
- indirect effects
- Pseudoroegneria spicata
- spotted knapweed
- top-down control
- Missoula
- Montana
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe ingression of woody plants into the grassy layer of savannas and grasslands has become a global concern. The increase of woody plants has been primarily attributed over grazing, fire and more…Publication Date 2012
- aerial photography
- fire suppression
- herbivory
- Long-term observations
- Palatable trees
- remote sensing
- Textural analysis
- Time-series analysis
- Unpalatable trees
- woody plant encroachment
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record1. Above-ground (AG) and below-ground (BG) biota show little overlap and are usually investigated independently. However, both communities are connected by a group of organisms that intrinsically…Publication Date 2011
- herbivory
- Induced resistance
- multitrophic interactions
- mutualism
- mycorrhiza
- Plant defence
- plant pathogens
- Rhizobia
- soil biota
- systemic resistance
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection Record1.?Björkman et al. comment on Adams and Zhang’s finding of more leaf herbivory with increasing latitude, pointing out that top-down control by predators on insect herbivores might cause less…Publication Date 2011
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- ecosystem dynamics
- herbivores
- herbivory
- natural enemy
- plant-herbivore interactions
- predators
- scale
- system type
- temperature
- top-down control
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of grazing on plant biomass, plant quality, species evenness, species diversity and species composition were determined among management types (communal, commercial and game) and among…Publication Date 2010
- grazing
- herbivory
- plant biomass
- plant quality
- rangeland management
- savanna
- species richness
- species diversity
- communal farming
- commercial agriculture
- game farming
- forage quality
- grazing
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Objectives: To (1) assess the strength of evidence for the role of termites in vegetation heterogeneity in African savannas, and (2) identify the mechanisms by which termites induce such…Publication Date 2010
- Banded vegetation
- Bush encroachment
- desertification
- Fertility islands
- fire
- herbivory
- Spotted vegetation
- savanna
- Ants
- invertebrates
- Termites
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavanna covers about two-thirds of Africa, with forage quantity and quality being important factors determining the distribution and density of wildlife and domestic stock. Testing hypotheses about…Publication Date 2010
- forage
- quality
- remote sensing
- hyperspectral
- herbivory
- Foliar
- nitrogen
- protein
- Polyphenol
- mopane
- savanna
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- livestock
- mapping
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Knersvlakte in the Succulent Karoo Biome (South Africa) is known for its high plant diversity and endemism. In the course of establishing a conservation area there, we assessed baseline data for…Publication Date 2010
- Aizoaceae
- biodiversity
- herbivory
- Namaqualand
- rangeland management
- Systematic conservation planning
- conservation
- management
- grazing
- sheep
- goats
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe study used nursery and field experiments to investigate why recruitment of Dobera glabra (Forssk) Poir., a native food source for both humans and livestock, often fails in the semiarid rangelands…Publication Date 2009-11-01
- Afar pastoralists
- herbivory
- seedling survival
- tree regeneration
- Library Collection RecordWillows (Salix) are important riparian plants and often used to indicate riparian condition. Many herbivores feed on willows, but there is limited information about willow browsing by wildlife except…Publication Date 2009-09-01
- browsing
- herbivory
- Salix
- shrubs
- ungulates
- Library Collection RecordNumerous studies have examined the impacts of ground level O3 on plants that are important for human consumption, but native species that are important for wildlife have received less scrutiny.…Publication Date 2009-07-01
- ground-level ozone
- herbivory
- Odocoileus virginianus
- pollution
- white-tailed deer
- Library Collection RecordHeathlands in the northwest of Spain have been traditionally used by domestic herbivores as a food resource. However, their abandonment in the past decades has promoted a high incidence of wildfires…Publication Date 2009-03-01
- gorse
- heather
- herbivory
- plant succession
- small ruminants
- Library Collection Recordflexible grazing management facilitates these processes and thus, the sustainability of rangeland livestock production.Publication Date 2009
- herbivory
- Arizona
- changes
- Library Collection RecordPlant demographic responses to an experimental summer fire were monitored for 12 yr on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, to determine recovery rates of burned plants and evaluate…Publication Date 2008-03-01
- desertification
- grazing
- herbivory
- prescribed fire
- range restoration
- shrub invasion
- Library Collection Record
39 Savanna
Savannas are characterized by the coexistence of trees and grasses and occur largely in the seasonal tropics between the equatorial rainforests and mid-latitude desert ecosystems. This article…Publication Date 2008- climate change
- Deciduous
- Evergreen
- fire
- grazing
- herbivory
- phenology
- Seasonal tropics
- soils
- Tree and grass competition
- savanna
- ecology
- animal impact
- grasslands
- rainfall
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment is a phenomenon that affects semi-arid savannas world-wide. To apply effective browsing to control trees, the browse-browser interaction must be well understood. An important aspect…Publication Date 2008
- Bush encroachment
- Delayed induced response
- Growth-defence tradeoff
- herbivory
- Plant defence
- savanna
- indigenous encroaching species
- plant autecology
- fertilizer
- irrigation
- forage quality
- foraging ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpring elk grazing may reduce forage availability for wildlife or livestock in summer and may harm forage resources on foothill rangeland. We quantified bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata…Publication Date 2007-09-01
- clipping
- defoliation response
- elk
- grazing management
- herbivory
- overcompensation
- Library Collection RecordConcentrated herbivory by elk (Cervus elaphus) can degrade vegetative communities and alter ecosystem processes. Areas severely damaged by elk are commonly protected with woven wire fence, which can…Publication Date 2007-09-01
- aspen regeneration
- Cervus elaphus
- exclosures
- herbivory
- wildlife damage management
- Library Collection RecordInvasion of rangeland by exotic forage species threatens ecosystem structure and function and can cause catastrophic economic losses. Herbicide treatments often are the focus of management efforts to…Publication Date 2007-05-01
- Chinese bush cloer
- disturbance ecology
- fire ecology
- grazing
- management
- heterogeneity
- herbivory
- invasion
- macro-ecology
- Sericea lespedeza
- Library Collection RecordExpert opinion was sought on 2 issues relating to herbivory: seasonal sheep preferences for plant species and seasonal plant response to grazing. Expert opinion is commonly used to parameterize…Publication Date 2007-03-01
- conflict
- grasslands
- heathlands
- herbivory
- knowledge
- uncertainty
- Library Collection RecordExplanations for why sympatric ruminant species select diets composed of different plant species or plant parts have been controversial. Our explanation is based on learning from foraging…Publication Date 2007-03-01
- diet selection
- herbivory
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- Library Collection RecordRapid growth of the black rhino (Diceros bicornis) population in the Great Fish River Reserve (GFRR), South Africa, has potential to negatively impact the semi-arid thicket vegetation that occurs in…Publication Date 2007
- diet
- herbivory
- intake
- Plant defence
- savanna
- forage quality
- management
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFire and grazing are interactive disturbance processes that are important to the structure and function of grassland ecosystems. Studies of nitrogen (N) availability report different effects…Publication Date 2006-11-01
- shifting mosaic
- grazing
- herbivory
- N availability
- net N mineralization
- Library Collection RecordWillow (Salix) communities are important components of riparian ecosystems. However, browsing by livestock and wildlife species can negatively impact willow size and abundance, and make restoration…Publication Date 2005-11-01
- cattle
- deer
- riparian management
- Salix
- herbivory
- Oregon
- Library Collection RecordThe resilience of willow (Salix monticola Bebb, Salix geyeriana Anderss., Salix planifolia Pursh) stems released from intense elk (Cervus elaphus) browsing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado,…Publication Date 2005-11-01
- alternative stable states
- Cervus elaphus
- herbivory
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Salix
- stem morphology
- Library Collection RecordLivestock grazing has been considered detrimental to wildlife habitat. Managed grazing programs, however, have the potential to maintain habitat diversity and quality. In cases in which single-…Publication Date 2005-03-01
- cattle
- facilitation
- herbivory
- deer
- elk