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Evaluation of Landscape-Level Grazing Capacity for Domestic Sheep in Alpine Rangelands

Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2014
Balancing the number of grazing animals with the level of plant resources is a core issue in grazing management. Complete, full-coverage vegetation surveys are often used for this purpose, but these are expensive undertakings. We have presented a method to downscale information from regional sampling surveys by poststratification using a land cover map
Atle Mysterud, Yngve Rekdal, Leif Egil Loe, Michael Angeloff, Ragnhild Mobæk, Øystein Holand, Geir-Harald Strand   +6 more
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Distance from Water as a Factor in Grazing Capacity of Rangeland

Journal of Forestry, 1947
Abstract An important factor influencing use of range forage is nearness to water supply. The author points out how intensity of grazing use declines with increased distance from water. Applying these results to a specific pasture made possible a correction in ordinary range-carrying capacity estimates to values in accordance with ...
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[Effects of compensation capacity and palatability on the dominance of plant species in grazing community].

Ying yong sheng tai xue bao = The journal of applied ecology, 2009
With simulated mowing experiment and field survey, the compensation capacity and dominance shift of nine alpine plant species in grazing community were studied. The results showed that for most test species, there existed definite correlations between their compensation capacity and palatability.
Sheng-wang, Pan, Hai-yang, Wang, Guo-zhen, Du, Shu-qing, Lei, Shi-qiang, Wei   +4 more
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Estimating swath-grazed carrying capacity from plot-scale data

Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 2015
Doce, R. R., Baron, V. S., and Dick, A. C. 2015. Estimating swath-grazed carrying capacity from plot-scale data. Can. J. Plant Sci. 95: 647–651. A spreadsheet calculator was developed to estimate farm-scale carrying capacities for swath grazing beef cows with forage yield and quality data from small areas within fields or paddocks. It could be used to
Raquel R. Doce, Vern S. Baron, A. Campbell Dick   +2 more
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The effect of seasonal grazing on the infiltration capacity of soils in a Cymbopogon-Themeda veld.

African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 1976
The long term effects of grazing during fixed seasons and combinations of the seasons, on the infiltration capacity of soils in a Cymbopogon-Themeda veld in the Central O.F.S., were investigated. Two field experiments were grazed by Merino sheep and Afrikaner cattle respectively.
J.A., Van Den Berg, B.R., Roberts, L.F., Vorster   +2 more
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Determining Common Use Grazing Capacities by Application of the Key Species Concept

Journal of Range Management, 1965
Correct substitution rates of one grazing animal for another under common use take place at uniform rates, being governed at any point by the utilization standard of some single species. The capacity under common use may be grealer than that realized with the less suited animal alone, or greater than either animal alone, depending upon the particular ...
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Non-grazed and grazed areas yield, grazing capacity and pasture quality score, in the pasture of Hal Village, Elazig Center

2017
Bu araştırma; 2014-2015 yıllarında,Elazığ Merkeze bağlı Hal Köyü merasında korunan ve otlatılan iki farklı alanınverim, otlatma kapasitesi ve mera kalite derecesini belirlemek amacıylayürütülmüştür. Araştırmada, yeşil ot verimi, kuru ot verimi, otlatma kapasitesive meranın kalite derecesi incelenmiştir. İki yıllık ortalama sonuçlara göre;korunan alanda
KARAN, Halil, BAŞBAĞ, Mehmet
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Grazing capacity estimates: why include biomass estimates from arable lands?

Bulletin of Animal Health and Production in Africa, 2007
Forage for ruminants in the dry season were assessed and matched with feed requirements in three villages in Zimbabwe, namely; Chiweshe, Makande and Mudzimu. Stocking rates were compared with grazing capacity to determine grazing intensities. Grazing capacities were estimated with and without crop residues to assess the importance of crop residues in ...
Timpong-Jones, E.C., Toxopeus, A.G., Mugabe, P.H., Chinuwo, T.   +3 more
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Use of Braun-Blanquet for the assessment of veld condition and grazing capacity in grassland

African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 2007
Braun-Blanquet vegetation surveys are easier and quicker to undertake than point surveys. This paper reports on assessment of veld condition and calculation of grazing capacity of five plant communities of the Ea land type of the northeastern Orange Free State using Braun-Blanquet data. Veld condition scores were obtained by substituting Braun-Blanquet
Eckhardt, HC, van Rooyen, N, Bredenkamp, GJ   +2 more
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Estimates of carrying capacity and production from herbage yields and grazing days

Proceedings of the Annual Congresses of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa, 1974
The reliable prediction, from herbage yields, of the carrying capacity of grazing can be of value in farm planning. In a trial comprising 27 treatment combinations of fertilization and stocking rate under two systems of grazing, it appeared that animal production per unit area can be predicted from herbage yields and from grazing days. It was apparent,
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