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Impacts of grazing systems on soil compaction and pasture production in Alberta
Date: 2002
Authors: N. T. Donkor, J. V. Gedir, R. J. Hudson, E. W. Bork, D. S. Chanasyk, and M. A. Naeth
Summary: Donkor et al. investigate the effects of wapiti (Cervus elaphus canadensis) grazing on soil physical properties and Bromus-Poa pasture production in an Aspen Boreal forest ecosystem. The bulk density at field moist condition and penetration resistan ...
Keywords: bulk density, wapiti, cervus elaphus canadensis, moisture content, penetration resistance, pasture production
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Gas exchange of Idaho fescue in response to defoliation and grazing history
Date: 1997
Authors: P. S. Doescher, T. J. Svejcar, and R. G. Jaindl
Summary: Doescher et al. measured the effects of simulated herbivory on photosynthesis, water conductance, xylem potential and carbon isotope ratios of Idaho fescue (<em>Festuca idahoensis</em>) plants, removed from grazed or ungrazed pastures. A ...
Keywords: photosynthesis, water use efficiency, idaho fescue, festuca idahoensis, simulated grazing, compensatory photosynthesis
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A comparison of soil chemical characteristics in modified rangeland communities
Date: 2000
Authors: J. F. Dormaar, and W. D. Willms
Summary: A study was initiated at 4 locations: a mixed prairie with <em>Stipa comata</em> dominant in the brown soil zone (1994), a mixed prairie with <em>Stipa comata</em> and <em>Stipa viridula</em> dominant in the dark ...
Keywords: steady state, monoculture, mixed prairie, fescue prairie, phosphorus, soil-plant interaction
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Observations on the prehistory and ecology of grazing in California
Date: 1992
Authors: S. W. Edwards
Summary: After considering all the available evidence, Edwards notes that the Californian Pleistocene megafauna was a complex of grazing-browsing-trampling effects. Edwards infers that California's Pleistocene environments might have included ample open spac ...
Keywords: california, grazing, management strategies, pleistocene megafauna, grazing ecology, bunchgrasses, native wildflowers
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The impact of vertebrate herbivores on wetland vegetation in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana
Date: 1998
Authors: D. E. Evers, C. E. Sasser, J. G. Gosselink, D. A. Fuller, and J. M. Visser
Summary: The effects of herbivory by waterfowl and nutria were measured because of vegetation loss in Sagittaria spp. dominated marshes along the coast of Louisiana. One set of study plots was set up on islands in Atchafalya Delta (fall 1985), while the other ...
Keywords: coastal marsh, nutria, myocastor coypus, biomass, species composition, waterfowl, muskrat, ondatra zibethicus, sagittaria latifolia, sagittaria platyphylla
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