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Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie
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In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of multi-paddock (MP) grazing at a high stocking rate compared to light continuous (LC) and heavy continuous (HC) grazing on neighboring commercial ranches in each of three proximate counties in north Texas tall grass prairie.About:
This article is published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 340 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Grazing.read more
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Impacts of winter hay feeding on pasture soils and plants
TL;DR: The presence of winter hay feeding sites in pastures had neutral to positive effects on forage productivity and forage nutritive value and the concentrated use of pasture during winterHay feeding could negatively impact subsequent forage production from soil compaction and create water quality degradation from manure runoff.
Restoring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Pre-Industrial Levels: Re-Establishing the Evolutionary Grassland-Grazer Relationship
TL;DR: The Holistic Planned Grazing (HPG) approach as mentioned in this paper uses livestock according to the principles of Holistic planned grazing, which has been demonstrated on over millions of hectares on four continents, primarily in semi-arid and arid areas, since 1970s.
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Rotational grazing management achieves similar plant diversity outcomes to areas managed for conservation in a semi-arid rangeland
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the potential to integrate commercial livestock grazing and conservation in a semi-arid rangeland in south-eastern Australia and found that understorey floristic composition and diversity were compared at different spatial scales across three grazing management treatments: (1) continuous commercial grazing management, where paddocks were grazed for the majority of the year (≥8 months per annum), (2) rotational commercial management where livestock are frequently rotated and paddocks rested for >4 months per year, and (3) protected areas managed for
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Rotational grazing management has little effect on remotely-sensed vegetation characteristics across farm fence-line contrasts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed 48 working farms nationwide in South Africa to test the hypothesis that rotational grazing sustains higher animal numbers while increasing grass cover and reducing bare ground and woody plant cover.
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Soil greenhouse gas emissions and grazing management in northern temperate grasslands.
Zilong Ma,Zilong Ma,Bharat M. Shrestha,Edward W. Bork,Scott X. Chang,Cameron N. Carlyle,Timm F. Döbert,Laio Silva Sobrinho,Mark S. Boyce +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the performance of AMP and n-AMP grazing in reducing soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an agroclimatic gradient in Alberta, Canada.
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