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- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- biomass
- land use
- grasslands
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding changes in biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in relation to land-use type and intensity is a major issue in current ecological research. In this context nutrient enrichment has…Publication Date 2011
- Biodiversity exploratories
- fertilization
- grazing
- land use
- mowing
- nitrogen
- nutrient limitation
- phosphorus
- productivity
- agriculture
- pastures
- grasslands
- plant production
- soil nutrients
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordBoreholes in the Kruger National Park (KNP) was at first developed to increase the number of animals that were at low densities because of poaching, diseases, fencing and low permanent water…Publication Date 2011
- national park
- water
- management
- piospheres
- soil moisture
- boreholes
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe prediction of both food intake and milk production constitutes a major issue in ruminants. This article presents a model predicting voluntary dry matter intake and milk production by lactating…Publication Date 2011
- dry matter
- grazing
- Grazemore
- model
- dairy cow
- intake
- milk production
- lactation
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe films show two sustainable land management (SLM) technologies that have a proven track record in Africa: Stone Lines and Fanya Juu. The technologies presented can constitute important changes…Publication Date 2011
- Sustainable development
- management
- climate change
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCivil Engineering '11. 3rd International Scientific Conference. Proceedings, Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Rural Engineering. Dept. of Architecture and Building. Dept…Publication Date 2011
- Biogas
- technology
- landscape
- models
- management
- Pilot projects
- Rural development
- grasslands
- vegetation
- research
- vegetation
- Biogas
- Library Collection RecordIntercropping two species at different growth stages is common in temperate and tropical areas. An apparent recovery of growth is observed in late-maturing species after early-maturing species have…Publication Date 2011
- agriculture
- pastures
- intercropping
- Maize
- biodiversity
- management
- Gansu province
- China
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- management
- phenology
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordA 2-year whole-farm study compared pasture-based systems increasing milk production per ha by increasing either stocking rate (from 2·5 to 3·8 cows/ha) or milk yield per cow (from 6000 to 9000 kg/…Publication Date 2011
- management
- economics
- milk yield
- stocking rate
- pasture
- grazing
- dairy cows
- dairy farm
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSoil structure development has a direct and indirect relation with hydraulic properties that generally control the transport of surface applied nutrients in unsaturated zones causing environmental…Publication Date 2011
- soils
- nutrient
- management
- nitrous oxide
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordMountain pastures can be improved by the application of wood ash, but its effectiveness as a source of N, P and other elements requires improved management practices. Two application rates of wood…Publication Date 2011
- pastures
- soil nutrients
- management
- fertiliser
- wood ash
- mountain pastures
- fertilization
- phosphorus
- nutrient cycling
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordPasture managers seek to balance leaf appearance with utilization to sustain sward productivity while meeting livestock nutritional needs. Achieving this in silvopasture must account for the…Publication Date 2011
- pasture
- management
- plant production
- non-structural carbohydrates
- shade
- orchard grass
- tall fescue
- Appalachian region
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSeasonal dynamics in the vegetation and rumen microbial nitrogen (MBN) production and nutritional status of grazing sheep were investigated in a semiarid rangeland in eastern Rajasthan, India, to…Publication Date 2011
- rangeland
- vegetation dynamics
- grazing
- management
- resource
- nutrition
- Semiarid rangeland
- sheep
- weather discomforts
- Rajasthan
- India
- Library Collection RecordGrazeIn is a model for predicting herbage intake and milk production of grazing dairy cows. The objectives of this paper are to test its robustness according to a planned arrangement of grazing and…Publication Date 2011
- animal production
- forage
- management
- grazing
- dairy cow
- herbage intake
- milk production
- modelling
- simulation
- Validation
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordThis paper represents a collaboration by conservation practitioners, ecologists, and climate change scientists to provide specific guidance on local and regional adaptation strategies to climate…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- savanna
- conservation ecology
- climate change
- management
- planning
- restoration ecology
- Pacific Northwest
- USA
- Library Collection RecordObjective: To contribute to the integration of key ecological concepts such as dynamic equilibrium, critical threshold, resistance and resilience to the "State and Transition Model " (STM…Publication Date 2011
- Dynamic equilibrium
- rangeland ecology
- resilience
- resistance
- thresholds
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- Ecosystem function
- state-and-transition model
- rangelands
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe use of surrogates for biodiversity is a practical tool to improve the cost effectiveness of regional conservation planning. However, there is still much uncertainty about the biological…Publication Date 2011
- disjunction
- ecological barriers
- Mitchell Landscapes
- regional conservation
- Surrogate
- biodiversity
- conservation
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 127-131Publication Date 2011
- farming systems
- biodiversity
- meadows
- Nature reserves
- management
- research
- Norway
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: What are the interactive effects of flooding and cattle trampling upon the structural attributes and the floristic composition of a plant community? Do the effects on the plant community…Publication Date 2011
- community structure
- flooding
- Grassland recovery
- grazing
- Lotus tenuis
- trampling
- grassland
- cattle
- management
- Flooding Pampa grasslands
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordAccurate descriptions of developmental stages in perennial forage grasses are important for management decisions during the growing season. It would be advantageous to have a scale and index…Publication Date 2011
- management
- commercial agriculture
- fodder quality
- grasslands
- pastures
- Phenological Development
- perennial forage grasses
- Timothy
- meadow fescue
- maturity
- decimal code
- phasic development
- morphology
- forage quality
- whole crop cereals
- Sweden
- Library Collection RecordIn obligate seeding species, the germination niche is crucial for colonization and population survival. It is a high-risk phase in a plant's life cycle, and is directly regulated by temperature…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- germination niche
- seed germination
- south-west Australia
- temperature gradient plate
- vulnerability
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- risk
- Insurance
- rangelands
- grazing
- weathering
- drought
- production data
- agricultural economics
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of grazing widely differs among plant communities. A generalized model published in 1988 proposed that this variation could be accounted for by the interaction between primary productivity…Publication Date 2011
- community assembly
- disturbance
- evolutionary history
- primary productivity
- successiongrazing
- management
- plant production
- seeds
- modelling
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Almost a century ago, Josias Braun-Blanquet developed his phytosociological approach for vegetation field study. At that time, nobody could foresee what the impact of this methodology would…Publication Date 2011
- Large vegetation databases
- ecological information systems
- eco-informatics
- Turboveg
- SynBioSys
- ecology
- management
- data analysis
- land-use nature conservation
- policies
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- losses from soil
- losses
- soil
- overgrazing
- grazing intensity
- grazing
- Rainfall patterns
- Rainfed farming
- Cultural Methods
- rain
- land management
- land use
- land
- Library Collection RecordDecision support tools to help dairy farmers gain confidence in grazing management need to be able to predict performance of grazing animals with easy-to-obtain variables on farm. This paper, the…Publication Date 2011
- GrazeIn
- management
- animal production
- grazing
- dairy cow
- intake
- modelling
- sward availability
- time at pasture
- roational grazing
- Library Collection RecordProceedings of the 20th International Scientific Symposium on Nutrition of Farm Animals 'Zadravec-Erjavec Days', Ceh, T. et. al..- Murska Sobota (Slovenia): Kmetijsko gozdarska zbornica…Publication Date 2011
- agriculture
- abandoned land
- land use
- natural resources
- farmland
- land resources
- degradation
- environmental degradation
- reclamation
- land improvement
- land use
- grazing
- Pasture Improvement
- pastures
- animal production
- land resources
- agriculture
- degradation
- Library Collection RecordAim Woody plants were not widely considered to be important invasive alien species until fairly recently. Thousands of species of trees and shrubs have, however, been moved around the world. Many…Publication Date 2011
- biological invasions
- dispersal modes
- invasive species
- management
- natural experiment
- reasons for introduction
- shrub invasions
- tree invasions
- alien invsive species
- biodiversity
- species richness
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- grazing
- livestock
- Time
- traps
- management
- phenology
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- grazing
- Brazil
- prices
- land use
- demand
- models
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- Sudan
- forage
- rangelands
- vegetation
- management
- developmental stages
- grassland management
- biomass
- nutritive value
- vegetation
- Sudan
- Library Collection RecordAnts are considered an important faunal group for the functioning of arid rangelands, they have a long history of use for environmental monitoring, and exhibit four global patterns in grazing lands…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- Bioindicator
- chenopod shrubland
- disturbance
- Formicidae
- grazing impacts
- Mulga
- piosphere
- Ants
- invertebrates
- rangelands
- monitoring
- grazing
- management
- restoration ecology
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMicrohistological analysis of feces is the most applied noninvasive method for assessing diets of wild ungulates. However, the method is complicated by differential digestibility of forage species.…Publication Date 2010-05-01
- bite count
- management
- ruminants
- techniques
- Library Collection RecordA longitudinal study of California hardwood rangelands shows significant change in landowner characteristics and goals. Results of three studies spanning 1985 to 2004 were used to develop and…Publication Date 2010-05-01
- attitudes
- conservation easements
- impermanence syndrome
- land use
- management
- Quercus
- Library Collection RecordConservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- fire ecology
- invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- Ethiopia
- semiarid zones
- pastoral society
- Ethnic groups
- Structural Change
- land use
- pastoralism
- livestock management
- environmental degradation
- rangelands
- floodplains
- crops
- plant ecology
- seed
- germination
- regeneration
- population structure
- plant cover
- Drought Resistance
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the spectral information of digital aerial sensors in determining land-cover classification using new digital techniques. The land covers…Publication Date 2010
- digital aerial photography
- expert classification algorithm
- land-cover classification
- objectoriented classification
- UltracamD
- agriculture
- land use
- Cordoba Province
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordGlobal change (climate change together with other worldwide anthropogenic processes such as increasing trade, air pollution and urbanization) will affect plant health at the genetic, individual,…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- biotic disturbances
- carbon sequestration
- grassland experiments
- land use
- landscape pathology
- long-term datasets
- plant pathogenic fungi
- Sustainable development
- tree genetic diversity
- climate change
- ecosystem ecology
- landscape ecology
- management
- decision support systems
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of climate change are controversial. This paper reviews the effects of climate change on livestock following the theory of global warming. Although, the effects of global warming will not…Publication Date 2010
- climate change
- animal production
- Livestock production systems
- sustainability
- drought
- plant production
- desertification
- Economic Aspects
- management
- agriculture
- global warming
- Library Collection RecordThe project was initiated by Eastern Cape Parks (ECP) as a request for the construction of inventories of priority species and their population levels inside three nature reserves on the Eastern Cape…Publication Date 2010
- Plant diversity conservation
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Rare plants
- Population viability analysis
- biodiversity
- Plant conservation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Human-plant relationships
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Nature reserves
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- land use
- grasslands
- farmland
- research
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: Can prescribed fire restore C4 perennial grasses in grassland ecosystems that have become dominated by fire-resistant C3 shrubs (Prosopis glandulosa) and C3 grasses? Do fires in different…Publication Date 2010
- burning
- fire ecology
- Herbaceous composition
- mesquite
- prescribed fires
- savanna
- species diversity
- woody plant
- restoration ecology
- fire ecology
- management
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- C4 grasses
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordHerbivores can act as dispersal vectors by purposely or accidentally ingesting ripe fruits, and thus endozoochory is one determining factor for plant distribution patterns. The objective of our study…Publication Date 2010
- Aizoaceae
- germination
- Namaqualand
- Nature conservation management
- rangelands
- Succulent karoo
- management
- conservation
- ecology
- Succulent karoo
- South 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 RecordThis paper introduces Walgett’s Dharriwaa Elders Group and its role to provide advocacy and representation for Walgett Aboriginal elders in Aboriginal cultural management and community development…Publication Date 2010
- management
- aboriginal culture
- caring for country
- Library Collection RecordAfrican savannas are primarily used as pastures and are subject to changes in climate and management strategies. For sustainable management of these landscapes ecological knowledge on seasonal and…Publication Date 2010
- beta diversity
- Distance decay
- Precipitation gradient
- species richness
- Systematic sampling
- Tree islands
- biodiversity
- savanna
- pasture management
- climate
- management
- sustainability
- rainfall
- monitoring
- conservation
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of fire and grazing management on grass nutritional quality in semi-arid savannas may depend on inherent variation in rainfall and soil nutrient status. We examined the effects of grazing…Publication Date 2010
- crude protein
- Grass nutritional quality
- phosphorus
- rainfall
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil nutrients
- management
- savanna
- forage quality
- plant production
- Northern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordDespite their vast size and a declining workforce it is possible to manage pastoral leases effectively by focusing on landscape function to identify key critical areas. Natural and human-induced…Publication Date 2010
- landscape
- management
- effective
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordIt is well recognised that local ecological knowledge is an important facet of natural resource management in rural regions of the developing world. However, techniques to assess levels and to…Publication Date 2010
- experts
- local ecological knowledge
- savanna
- Scoring
- traditional knowledge
- management
- Indigenous knowledge
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993 2006…Publication Date 2010
- Central Lowveld
- conservation planning
- development
- land-use change
- conservation
- management
- land use
- rangeland
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
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