Is Grazing Good for Wet Meadows? Vegetation Changes Caused by White-Backed Cattle

Wetland ecosystems are highly productive and valued for numerous reasons including wildlife habitat, biodiversity, water quantity quality, human uses. Grazing livestock on wet grasslands can sometimes be controversial due the humidity of but other hand, it plays an important role in grassland preservation. Therefore, we evaluated impact Polish white-backed cattle grazing changes vegetation (13 phytosociological relevés taken years 2016–2019) meadows as well forage quality based species composition. Biodiversity was estimated richness, Shannon–Wiener diversity evenness indices, Rényi profiles. The peatland featured mostly high-sedge communities Magnocaricion Calthion alliances. biodiversity indices demonstrated significant rising trends. Extensive resulted decreased cover dominant rush meadows, e.g., common reed, acute, tufted sedge. gaps that had emerged thanks to reduced were filled by meadow plants, which led increased biodiversity. During four grazing, obtained satisfactory weight gains, particularly 2019, indicates suitable provide sufficient feed cattle.