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Ecological benefits of strategically applied livestock grazing in sagebrush communities

Ecosphere
There are concerns about the negative consequences of non‐native livestock grazing of sagebrush communities, especially since these communities are experiencing unpreceded threats from invasive annual grasses, altered fire regimes, and climate change ...
Kirk W. Davies, Chad S. Boyd, Jon D. Bates, Lauren N. Svejcar, Lauren M. Porensky   +4 more
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Mixed grazing systems benefit both upland biodiversity and livestock production.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundWith world food demand expected to double by 2050, identifying farming systems that benefit both agricultural production and biodiversity is a fundamentally important challenge for the 21(st) century, but this has to be achieved in a ...
Mariecia D Fraser, Jon M Moorby, James E Vale, Darren M Evans   +3 more
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Economic Potential of Substituting Legumes for Synthetic Nitrogen in Warm Season Perennial Grasses used for Stocker Cattle Grazing [PDF]

Stocker cattle grazing warm season perennial grasses is an important economic activity in the southern Great Plains. Substantial increases in the price of nitrogen fertilizer is negatively affecting forage producers’ profitability.
Biermacher, Jon T., Blanton, John, Jr., Bouton, Joe H., Butler, Twain, Guretzky, John A., Kering, Maru K., Reuter, Ryan, Rogers, James K., Springer, Job D.   +8 more
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A study of patchiness in mid-season dairy pastures : consequences and control : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science at Massey University [PDF]

, 1997
There is interest among some dairy farmers in increasing herbage intake of cows during spring by increasing pasture cover but without compromising pasture quality into the summer.
Padilla Pérez Peña, Mauricio Javier
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Estimating the economic implications for grazing properties in the Mackay Whitsunday catchments of practice changes to more sustainable landscapes [PDF]

In the Mackay Whitsunday region, the dominant grazing based operations are small intensive systems that heavily utilise soil, nutrient and chemical management practices.
East, Miriam
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Medium-Term Effect of Livestock Grazing Intensities on the Vegetation Dynamics in Alpine Meadow Ecosystems

Land
The dynamics and plant composition of toxic weeds in alpine meadows are strongly influenced by management practices such as livestock grazing. Here, the effect of grazing management on vegetation and soil characteristics within an alpine meadow ecosystem
Bo Chen, Xujun Ma, Xiaolei Zhou, Xiaowei Zhang, Xuhu Wang, Zizhen Li, Xinyi Yang, Songsong Lu, Weibo Du   +8 more
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Management of grazing systems

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association, 1989
Recent assessments of the relative importance of stocking rate. stocking policy and grazing management on the output from pastoral systems are used as a starting point to argue the need for objective pasture assessments to aid control of livestock enterprises to meet production targets. Variations in stocking rates, stocking policy and other management
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Human Impacts on Forest Biodiversity in Protected Walnut-Fruit Forests in Kyrgyzstan [PDF]

, 2014
We used a spatially explicit model of forest dynamics, supported by empirical field data and socioeconomic data, to examine the impacts of human disturbances on a protected forest landscape in Kyrgyzstan.
Abdymomunov R. A., Adrian C. Newton, Alexander Lovegrove, Almaz Orozumbekov, Arnold J., Bengtsson J., Blaser J., CABI, Carey C., Chemonics International Inc, Chyngojoev A., Core E. L., Cremer K., Dzhangaliev A. D., Dzhangaliev A. D., Eastwood A., Elena Cantarello, Ellenberg H., Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Greene D. F., Hemery G. E., Herold B., Jahn G., Jennifer Birch, Juniper B. E., Kolov O., Kyrgyz Forest Service, Kyrgyz Forest Service, Lockwood M., Mattock J., Musuraliev T. M., Müller-Schneider P., Müller-Schneider P., Newton A. C., Newton A. C., Niels Brouwers, Orozumbekov A., Orozumbekov A., Paganová V., Peter D., Phillips A., Schmidt K., Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Sherbinina E. N., Spencer W. D., Sukacev V. N., Venglovsky B. I., Wyckoff G. W.   +47 more
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Unravelling the economic and environmental tradeoffs of reducing sediment movement from grazed pastures [PDF]

An undesirable consequence of grazing activities in eastern Australia is the quantity of sediment emptying into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. One of the challenges to reducing sediment loads stems from the lack of private incentives to improve land ...
Donaghy, Peter, Gaffney, James, Rolfe, John   +2 more
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Optimising woody-weed control [PDF]

Woody weeds pose significant threats to the 12.3 billion dollar Australian grazing industry. These weeds reduce stocking rate, increase mustering effort, and impede cattle access to waterways. Two major concerns of woody-weed management are the high cost
Cacho, Oscar J., Lawes, Roger A., Zull, Andrew F.   +2 more
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