Host tree traits in pasture areas affect forest and pasture specialist epiphyte species differently

Sodium in Pasture Species and Grazing Livestock

New pasture plants intensify invasive species risk.

Agricultural intensification is critical to meet global food demand, but intensification threatens native species and degrades ecosystems. Sustainable intensification (SI) is heralded as a new approach for enabling growth in agriculture while minimizing environmental impacts. However, the SI literature has overlooked a major environmental risk. Using data from eight countries on six continents,...

Interaction between Some Pasture Species and Two Hieracium Species

Possible control options are investigated for the introduced Hieracium weeds, particular problems in South Island high country, New Zealand. In a pot experiment regression of input to output ratios of above ground biomass over successive harvests, from binary mixtures was used to determine the competitive interaction between 13 pasture species and two Hieracium species, H. pilosella and H. prae...

Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) – a potential pasture species

Plantago lanceolata L. is a herb species with a broad distribution in grasslands throughout the temperate world. The leaf is highly palatable to grazing animals, providing a mineralrich forage. The species is rapid to establish, grows on a wide range of agricultural soils and is tolerant of drought and of many common diseases and pests. Two productive upright cultivars of plantain have been bre...

Land Conversion From Forest to Pasture in Bolivia

For the past two decades, there has been extensive debate on the destructive interaction between beef production and tropical forests in Latin America. The primary concern has been deforestation to provide land for pasture and cattle production. Beef production has been part of the land use mosaic in the Bolivian lowlands for centuries and will undoubtedly remain so for the foreseeable future. ...