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How Grasses Grow.

C. Marshall, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1980 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 2, pp 521
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This article is published in Journal of Applied Ecology.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 193 citations till now.

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Grazing as an Optimization Process: Grass-Ungulate Relationships in the Serengeti

TL;DR: Experiments in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park showed that net above-ground primary productivity of grasslands was strongly regulated by grazing intensity in wet-season concentration areas of the large ungulate fauna, suggesting that conventional definitions of overgrazing may be inapplicable to these native plant-herbivore systems.
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Does herbivory benefit plants? A review of the evidence

TL;DR: Although herbivores may benefit certain plants by reducing competition or removing senescent tissue, no convincing evidence supports the theory that herbivory benefits grazed plants.
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A Uniform, Objective, and Adaptive System for Expressing Rice Development

TL;DR: This work proposes a rice developmental staging system divided into three main phases of development: seedling, vegetative, and reproductive, and assigns rice growth stages based on discrete morphological criteria to result in unambiguous growth-stage determination.
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Describing and Quantifying Growth Stages of Perennial Forage Grasses

TL;DR: A system for identifying and quantifying the stages of growth and development of perennial forage grasses was developed and a universal set of morphological descriptors for forage and range grasses and a continuous numerical index was developed.
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A trade-off between scale and precision in resource foraging.

TL;DR: Measurements of dry matter partitioning and growth in patchy conditions indicate a consistent positive association between the foraging characteristics of roots and shoots, supporting the hypothesis of strong interdependence of competitive abilities for light and mineral nutrients.