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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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Effect of ranchers' management philosophy, grazing practices, and personal characteristics on sustainability indices for north central Texas rangeland
TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire was used to gather data from ranches in Cooke, Montague, Clay, Wise, Parker, and Jack counties in North Central Texas and sustainability indices were created based on economic and land health indicator variables meeting a minimum Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α = 0.7).
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Competition between palatable and unpalatable prairie grasses under selective and non-selective herbivory in semi-arid grassland
TL;DR: The results refute the hypothesis that selective grazing by livestock in these ecosystems has contributed to a reduction of B. curtipendula relative to S. compositus, but this treatment is unlikely to produce desirable results in the long term as the highest total vegetation production occurred when B.Cur Tipendula was moderately defoliated.
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Relating Soil Organic Carbon Increases to Available Water Storage and Drought Vulnerability in South-Central Idaho
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impacts of building soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks from conservation agricultural practices on available water storage, drought vulnerability, and aquifer recharge in two agricultural areas of south-central Idaho: The Eastern Snake Plain and the Wood River Valley.
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Effects of adaptive multiple paddock and continuous grazing on fine-scale spatial patterns of vegetation species and biomass in commercial ranches
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the herbivory effects of adaptive multi-paddock grazing (AMP) and continuous grazing (CG) practices on spatial patterns of vegetation, plant community species composition, and productivity in neighboring ranches in Mississippi.
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Grazing management effects on environmental quality of riparian and upland grassland ecosystems
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of pasture size, stream access, and off-stream water on the presence of cattle near pasture streams were investigated in upland grassland ecosystems, and the authors found that cattle grazing at elevated stocking densities has the potential to improve plant diversity, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat through soil disturbance, incorporation of plant litter into the soil profile, and removal of aboveground forage.
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