scholarly journals Livestock Grazing Impacts on Interrill Erosion in Pakistan

1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Bari ◽  
M. K. Wood ◽  
L. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Interrill Erosion

scholarly journals Livestock grazing impacts on plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) vary by species identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xincheng Li ◽  
Zhongnan Wang ◽  
Deli Wang ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Duofeng Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
Plateau Pika ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Ochotona Curzoniae

scholarly journals Livestock grazing impacts components of the breeding productivity of a common upland insectivorous passerine: Results from a long‐term experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1514-1523
Author(s):  
Lisa E. Malm ◽  
James W. Pearce‐Higgins ◽  
Nick A. Littlewood ◽  
Alison J. Karley ◽  
Ewa Karaszewska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Term Experiment ◽  
Long Term Experiment

scholarly journals Grazing Impacts on Rangeland Vegetation: What We Have Learned

Rangelands ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Holechek ◽  
Terrel T. Baker ◽  
Jon C. Boren ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Semiarid Areas ◽  
Positive Impacts

Livestock grazing at light-to-moderate intensities can have positive impacts on rangeland vegetation in arid-to-semiarid areas.

Clearing and grazing impacts on vegetation patch structures and fauna counts in eucalypt woodland, Central Queensland

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 254 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Ludwig ◽  
Robert W. Eager ◽  
Adam C. Liedloff ◽  
Juliana C. McCosker ◽  
David Hannah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perennial Grass ◽  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Vertebrate Species ◽  
Termite Mounds ◽  
Vegetation Patch ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Malurus Melanocephalus ◽  
Eucalypt Woodlands ◽  
Eucalypt Woodland ◽  
Patch Attributes

There is national and international concern that tree clearing and cattle grazing reduce habitat for native fauna. In this paper we quantify how the degree of clearing and the level of grazing change the patch structure and composition of vegetation in eucalypt woodlands, and how these habitat changes affect counts for 10 species including birds, reptiles and small mammals. These species were selected because they were abundant, hence providing the data needed for ordinations and regressions. We studied 37 sites occurring in two regions of central Queensland: Blackwater/Emerald and Alpha/Jericho. On each site, indices for the degree of tree clearing and the level of livestock grazing were assessed, the cover and size of tree groves, shrub thickets, log hummocks, termite mounds and perennial grass clumps were measured, and abundances of 10 common vertebrate species were estimated. As expected, the cover and size of tree groves declined and the cover of grass clumps increased as the degree of clearing increased. Native grass composition changed to introduced Buffel Grass as the level of grazing increased. Clearing affected fauna counts more than grazing did. The Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus, Yellow-throated Miner Manorina flavigula, Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus and Pale-headed Rosella Platycercus eximius had significantly lower counts on cleared sites, but the Red-backed Fairy-wren Malurus melanocephalus had higher counts. The introduced House Mouse Mus musculus also had higher counts on cleared sites, but Carnaby's Skink Cryptoblephrus carnabyi had lower counts. Counts of the Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris, Bynoe's Gecko Heteronotia binoei and the Delicate Mouse Pseudomys delicatulus did not significantly change with clearing. Counts for the Pale-headed Rosella increased as the level of grazing increased, but counts for the other fauna species did not significantly change with our grazing index. Except for Bynoe's Gecko, fauna counts significantly changed with various vegetation patch attributes, particularly those strongly affected by clearing. From these results, we know which of the 10 fauna species are likely to decline or increase with clearing and grazing, and this knowledge can be used by land managers.

scholarly journals Livestock Grazing Impacts on Herbage and Shrub Dynamics in a Mediterranean Natural Park

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Riedel ◽  
A. Bernués ◽  
I. Casasús
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Natural Park

scholarly journals Livestock Grazing Impacts on Infiltration Rates in a Temperate Range of Pakistan

1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faizul Bari ◽  
M. Karl Wood ◽  
Leigh Murray
Keyword(s):  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
Infiltration Rates

scholarly journals A global meta-analysis of livestock grazing impacts on soil properties

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. e0236638
Author(s):  
Liming Lai ◽  
Sandeep Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Soil Properties ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Grazing Impacts

scholarly journals Trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services in UK and US salt marshes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kate Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Soil Carbon ◽  
Salt Marshes ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Grazing Impacts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Negative Effect

Salt marshes supply vital ecosystem services (ES), providing material goods and recreation space, regulating natural hazards, and supporting diverse wildlife. However, increases in the utilisation of one ES can lead to reductions or ‘trade-offs’ in others. Because salt marshes are commonly used for grazing livestock, it is important to understand how this grazing impacts the saltmarsh ecosystem, and the consequences for ES supply. This thesis (i) uses a global meta-analysis to investigate the effects of livestock grazing on saltmarsh properties, and finds multiple significant changes to soil, vegetation and fauna properties. The meta-analysis reveals that the response of soil carbon is context dependent – there is no effect in Europe but a reduction in the Americas. (ii) Extensive surveys of soil carbon in grazed and ungrazed US marshes, controlling for key covariates, confirm that grazing trades-off against carbon storage in US marshes. These observational surveys, together with 18-month experimental exclusion of horses from a salt marsh in Georgia, show that grazing also disrupts the plant community in US marshes, but has little effect on resident invertebrates. (iii) Focussing on bees in salt marshes, a three-year study in south Wales, UK shows that grazing trades-off against bee habitat by reducing the flower cover of two key food plants, and that increases in plant diversity with grazing do not compensate for this negative effect. (iv) Spatial analyses of seven saltmarsh ES supplied by an estuary complex in south Wales show that marshes are not achieving their potential as a bee habitat here, due to the predominance of grazing. These analyses also show that the provision of ES by salt marshes is spatially heterogeneous, dependent on management, size and location. As a whole, this thesis adds to the understanding of grazer impacts and ES trade-offs, and supplies crucial data to support evidence-based management of salt marshes.

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