PROGRESS WITH "SAFE" PASTURE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH OTAGO

MOOSE: management of otago speech environment

With the advent of spoken language computer interface systems, the storage and management of speech corpora is becoming more of an issue in the development of such systems. Until recently, even large corpora were stored as individual text and speech files (for example, [18]), or as a single, monolithic file (for example, [1]). The issues involved in management and retrieval of the data have bee...

Range and Pasture Management

Ground invertebrate fauna associated with native shrubs and exotic pasture in a modified rural landscape, Otago, New Zealand

This study examined whether the diversity and relative abundance of ground-dwelling invertebrates changed in relation to type of vegetation cover. Invertebrate taxon diversity and relative abundance were assessed with pitfall traps placed under the native shrubs Olearia bullata and Coprosma propinqua, and in surrounding patches of exotic pasture. A total of 1935 invertebrates and at least 152 i...

Soil Nitrocxn and Pasture Management

The. seasonal pattern of nitrogen mineralization is described and compared with the potential demand for nitrogen by grasses. Peak mineralization rates occur in spring but are quite inadequate for expression of potential grass growth. Nitrogen fixation by clovers provides a significant input into the system over a short period. Consideration of the fate of fixed nitrogen shows that losses large...

Towards sustainable controls of pasture pests: Progress on control ofArgentine

Pastures in the northern North Island contain a complexofnationallydistributedinsectsandinsects associated with warmer climatic conditions. Argentine stem weevil (Listronotus bonariensis (Kuschel)) is the most important insect pest in New Zealand. Progress toward the development of sustainable control of Argentine stem weevil is basedon a thorough understanding of the population ecologyofthepes...