Highlight: Associations among cattle stocking rate, precipitation, and eastern redcedar invasion, and possibly redcedar control measures were investigated. Redcedar numbers generally decreased as stocking rate increased. Precipitation had only a slight effect on invasion rate. Fire, cutting, and fenuron granules appear to effectively kill red cedar. Loamy upland range site consists of soils hav...

Live weight gains of light and heavy calves grazing Plains Old World bluestem at three stocking rates were evaluated during the summers of 1997 and 1998. Initial weights of mixed-breed light-weight steers (LHT) were 141 SD = 17 kg (n = 214) in 1997 and 160 SD = 23 kg (n = 193) in 1998. Initial weights of mixed-breed heavy steers (HWT) were 265 SD = 17 kg (n = 115) in 1997 and 248 SD = 13 kg (n ...

Work under this investigation included farm survey, extension, and research components using both the CLSU research station and demonstration farms. An experiment was conducted for the determination of optimal stocking sizes, considering the growth and survival performance of various sizes of fingerlings along with economic factors. Size #22 sex-reversed nursery phase fingerlings of Nile tilapi...

The seaweed biofilter Ulva reticulata was grown at two stocking densities (1 and 3 kg m-2) in a low cost integrated system in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The seaweed was stocked in 2 m2 cages made of 1 inch netting material placed at the outflow of fish ponds. Control seaweed was grown at the fish pond inflow channel. At a stocking density of 3 kg m-2, the weight of the seaweed increased by 700 g (fw) ...

The study provides information on the reproductive performance of ostriches maintained at different stocking rates and male:female (M:F) ratios under intensive commercial conditions in the Little Karoo, South Africa. Breeding ostriches are concentrated on relatively small areas and through trampling have a most significant impact on the vegetation in the Little Karoo. Reproductive performance, ...

We tested whether the abundance of C(4) vegetation in grasslands of the Mongolian plateau is influenced by grazing conditions. The analysis exploited the politically originated contrast that exists between Mongolia (low stocking rate, transhumant system) and the district of Inner Mongolia, China (high stocking rate, sedentary system). We estimated the proportion of C(4) carbon (P(C4)) in grazed...

Sexual dimorphism and differential growth rate is evident in Macrobrachium rosenbergii and one of the major hurdles in the uptake of commercial farming. Two of the main difficulties for communal culture of many crustaceans are cannibalism and the social suppression of the growth. But crustaceans are blessed with ‘Autotomy; regeneration of organs’. There was a statistically significant differenc...

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is a very large land unit and an important terrestrial ecosystem within the Eurasian continent. Because of the harsh climate associated with the high altitude, alpine meadows on the plateau are susceptible to degradation from overgrazing. For this region, and for other alpine meadow pastures internationally, there is a need to define the sustainable stocking rate, to...

In a previous paper (Illius et al., 1998), we analysed the potential of tracking strategies to increase output under climatic variability. Regrettably, an error in the processing of data on the annual variability of sales led us to the wrong conclusions about the usefulness of tracking policies in smoothing inter-annual variation. This note presents corrections. Our conclusions about the genera...