The objective of this study was to examine fluctuations in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) content perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne swards within a high nitrogen (250 kg N/ha) input grazing dairy system. data came from larger, overall system experiment which all management and growing condition variables were categorised each year for the 40 paddocks that contained ryegrass-white swards, o...

Gustafson, T., 2006. Bird communities and vegetation on Swedish wet meadows – importance of management regimes and landscape composition. Doctor's dissertation. Wet meadows in Sweden currently depend on management by grazing to maintain habitats for various breeding and migrating birds. However, due to ceased cattle farming management by mowing could be an option for restoration and conservatio...

A modelling study is performed in order to quantify the relative effect of allowing for the physiological properties of an undergrowth grass sward on total canopy water and carbon fluxes of the Le-Bray forest (Les-Landes, Southwestern France). The Le-Bray forest consists of maritime pine and an herbaceous undergrowth (purple moor-grass), which is characterised by a low stomatal control of trans...

Alternative stable states have long been thought to exist in natural communities, but direct evidence for their presence and for the environmental switches that cause them has been scarce. Using a combination of greenhouse and field experiments, we investigated the environmental drivers associated with two distinctive herbaceous communities in coastal ecosystems in New Zealand. In a mosaic unre...

Short-duration overnight kraaling has been suggested as a tool for restoring degraded rangelands. However, the response of different plant functional types and communities to such intense livestock impact may vary depending on local context. We thus examined effects short-duration soil vegetation characteristics in mesic montane grassland South Africa using paired kraal control sites, part low ...

Organisms with different life histories are able to act as indicators of characteristics their environment. Here, we compared the precision habitat indication by vegetation and soil microbial communities in four salt-affected pastures: annual open salt sward, Pannonic Puccinellia limosa hollow, Artemisia saline puszta grassy puszta. Dissimilarity habitats was evaluated standardized principal co...

ABSTRACT: This study assessed the nitrogen nutrition index, morphogenic characteristics and tiller structure of Alexandergrass (Urochloaplantaginea (LINK) Hitch) pasture submitted to different (N) levels (zero, 150 or 300 kg ha-1 N). The experimental design was entirely randomized with repeated measures arrangement. animals were Angus heifers under rotational stocking grazing method. number var...