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Grazing Management, Forage Production and Soil Carbon Dynamics

Resources, 2020
Soil carbon pools remain a target for sequestering greenhouse gases, but appropriate land management options to achieve such sequestration remain uncertain. Livestock grazing can have profound positive or negative effects on soil carbon. Different models
Mark E. Ritchie
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The Effect of Frequency of Fresh Pasture Allocation on Pasture Utilisation and the Performance of High Yielding Dairy Cows

Animals, 2020
Pasture allocation frequency (PAF) can influence pasture availability and grazing behaviour, which subsequently may impact on animal performance. Limited research to-date has investigated grazing management methods to improve the performance of high ...
Jessica G. Pollock, Alan W. Gordon, Kathryn M. Huson, Deborah A. McConnell   +3 more
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Sensitivity of Winter-Active Lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) to Different Grazing Regimes

Agronomy, 2018
Lucerne (alfalfa; Medicago sativa L.) is the key forage for grazing in dryland temperate regions around the world. While rotational grazing of lucerne is recommended, in southern Australia the intervals between grazing events are often chosen in an ...
Vivianne F. Burnett, Jeff R. Hirth, Kym L. Butler, Meredith L. Mitchell, Steve G. Clark, Zhongnan Nie   +5 more
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Plant Community and Soil Properties Regulate Space-Scale Dependence of Species Diversity under Grazing Exclusion and Rest Grazing in the Qilian Mountains of China

Agriculture, 2023
Grazing exclusion (GE) and rest grazing (RG) are important management systems for the restoration of degraded grassland ecosystems. In order to evaluate the effects and mechanisms of different grazing management systems on the scale dependency of species
Lixiang Liu, Yongwei Han, Weiwei Liu, Yuemin Liu   +3 more
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Effect of Grazing Exclusion and Rotational Grazing on Soil Aggregate Stability in Typical Grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Soil aggregate is extremely important for soil health and sustainable land management. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland in the past decades and how to restore the degraded soil through grazing management is urgently needed.
Lei Dong, Lei Dong, Ying Zheng, Ying Zheng, Vegard Martinsen, Cunzhu Liang, Jan Mulder   +6 more
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Effects of large herbivores on grassland arthropod diversity [PDF]

, 2015
Both arthropods and large grazing herbivores are important components and drivers of biodiversity in grassland ecosystems, but a synthesis of how arthropod diversity is affected by large herbivores has been largely missing. To fill this gap, we conducted
Olff, H, van der Plas, F, van Klink, Roel, van Noordwijk, Toos, WallisDeVries, MF   +4 more
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Effects of initial disturbances and grazing regime on native grassland invasion by Eragrostis plana in southern Brazil

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2018
Extensive invasion of the Campos grasslands of southern Brazil by the South African grass, Eragrostis plana, is a serious conservation problem due to its low palatability and ability to quickly spread.
Rodrigo Baggio, Renato Borges de Medeiros, Telmo Focht, Lidiane da Rosa Boavista, Valério D. Pillar, Sandra C. Müller   +5 more
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Short-term grazing changed temporal productivity stability of alpine grassland on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau via response species richness and functional groups asynchrony

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The stability of grassland is pivotal in maintaining the grassland functioning and services. However, the knowledge about the consequences of grazing on stability of grassland productivity is limited.
Fengcai He, Juejie Yang, Shikui Dong, Yangliu Zhi, Xinghai Hao, Hao Shen, Jiannan Xiao, Emmanuella A. Kwaku, Ran Zhang, Hang Shi, Ziying Wang, Yuhao Zhang, Hui Zuo   +12 more
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Pika burrow and zokor mound density and their relationship with grazing management and sheep production in alpine meadow

Ecosphere, 2020
Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) and plateau zokors (Myospalax baileyi) occur naturally in the alpine meadow of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). Their feeding and burrowing activities affect plant composition and soil properties (e.g., soil carbon ...
Yingxin Wang, Xinglu Zhang, Yi Sun, Shenghua Chang, Zhaofeng Wang, Guang Li, Fujiang Hou   +6 more
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Grazing effects on the nutritive value of dominant species in steppe grasslands of northern China

BMC Ecology, 2018
Background Forage nutritive value plays an important role in livestock nutrition and maintaining sustainable grassland ecosystems, and grazing management can affect the quality of forage.
Xiajie Zhai, Yingjun Zhang, Kun Wang, Qian Chen, Shuiyan Li, Ding Huang   +5 more
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