Grazing and Range Management
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was put in charge of managing native wild horses that reside on public lands in the United States. Since the passage of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act, the BLM has twisted the law... more
Los sistemas rotativos son aquellos que luego del pastoreo permiten a la pastura descansar por un periodo de tiempo lo suficientemente largo como para que las plantas recuperen sus reservas y pue-dan volver a rebrotar (25, 26, 23, 5, 14).... more
Changes in grassland management intended to increase productivity can lead to sequestration of substantial amounts of atmospheric C in soils. Management-intensive grazing (MiG) can increase forage production in mesic pastures, but... more
Shade is a must for pasture-based grazing systems. It curtails heat stress, which is detrimental to cattle and causes a decrease in milk production, feed intake, weight gains, and fertility.
Monitoring livestock behaviour can be a useful way to improve farm animal management and to detect individual health events. The use of automated systems that predict several daily behaviours from accelerometer data is growing and studies... more
BIODIVERSITY OF OPEN LANDS IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA. THE CASE OF DRY GRASSLANDS VEGETATION IN LUBERON (CALCAREOUS PROVENCE). ABSTRACT : Erosion of biodiversity at a world wide scale makes urgent studying endemism and species-rich hotspots... more
Grazing exclusion zones used as a means to control excessive erosion of a unique friable substrate and the associated flora on Cronkley fell has been in place for 43 years. Increases in the extent of grazing exclosures across the habitat... more
The increase of livestock number coupled to climate change causes problems of ecosystems balance. Our study is carried out in the village of Taffogo (sahelian area) that aims to evaluate the production of herbaceous and fodder plants... more
Woody plant encroachment is frequent in dry savannas. Grazing is often considered to be a major cause of encroachment in dry savannas because grasses are removed by livestock, leaving bare areas for trees to colonise in wetter years.... more
Adada site reconnaissance visit on 19th Septemebr,2020 located at Uzo-Uwani local government area, Nkpologwu Area, Enugu state, Nigeria soils profile suitable for ginger cultivation from the site visit (see section two plates 1-4) with a... more
From both ranching and conservation perspectives, livestock predation by large carnivores has traditionally been seen as a problem with the carnivores as its cause. For instance, much of the work done to reduce livestock-carnivore... more
Strategy has evolved throughout the years. The amount of competitive forces facing organisations may be the result of globalisation. This has forced companies to come up with strategic approaches to survive, increase market shares and... more
Balancing the population of large herbivores, whether livestock (such as camels) or wildlife (such as Arabian Oryx) or a combination, is the single most important issue for managing a rangeland. It is thought that most rangelands are... more
Plantas forrajeras herbáceas y leñosas, Valor nutritivo del forraje natural, Plantas tóxicas para el ganado, Biodiversidad y otros aspectos ecológicos, botánicos y productivos de esta región de humedales.
Livestock – large carnivore coexistence practitioners can be more effective by expanding from a direct focus on carnivores and predation-prevention tools to the broader social-ecological context of ranches and rural communities,... more
Adopting a systems view and regenerative philosophy can indicate how to regenerate ecosystem function on commercial-scale agro-ecological landscapes. Adaptive multi-paddock grazing management is an example of an approach for grazinglands.... more
Bhutan Land Act of 2007 is the latest policy change, which will have huge impacts on nationwide traditional rangeland management practices. It was approved in 2007 and will be implemented by 2017, keeping a grace period of 10 years for... more
In this article we argue that stockmanship is an integral—albeit over-looked and underappreciated— part of range management. Low stress herding has been used to improve grazing distribution on large rangeland landscapes with continuous,... more
Tips and tactics for using burrow builders, gopher getters, and other machine baiting devices for the control of pocket gophers.
Camel grazing is recognized as a primary cause of ecological degradation in the UAE. A study of perennial plant species o1m in height was conducted along a fence separating continuously camel grazed land from land in which camels had been... more
Alpine ecosystems account for c. 3% of terrestrial habitats yet, along with adjacent mountain systems, provide water resources to nearly half of the world's human population. Approximately 20% of humans live in or near mountain areas,... more
"Grazing of the Dubai inland desert has changed substantially over the last century, and particularly over the last three decades. Populations of oryx, ostriches and gazelles have been replaced by an increased camel herd, which is at... more
We explore sustainable land sector opportunities for Australia's 1.2 million km 2 northern savanna rangelands where extensive beef cattle pastoralism is the predominant contemporary land use. Our focal region is characterised by mean... more
Carbon abatement schemes that reduce land clearing and promote revegetation are now an important component of climate change policy globally. There is considerable potential for these schemes to operate in drylands which are spatially... more
The Society for Range Management and the American Grassfed Association (AGA) held the symposium on low-input grassfed livestock production at Working Landscapes: Providing for the Future, the 63rd SRM annual meeting, on 11 February 2010... more
The world’s rangelands constitute an important global resource. Range has been defined by the society for range management as land which supports vegetation useful for grazing on which routine management of that vegetation is through... more
Grazing ecosystems are what scientists call complex adaptive systems: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts because of the relationships between the parts. The relationships form the web of life, so intricate that their... more
A technique using fresh feeding signs as an index of density was validated and used to survey the effects of sheep grazing on vole population densities in four upland habitats in the northern Peak District National Park, UK. In grazed... more
Plants are of fundamental importance to the structure, functioning and service provision of many ecosystems. However, herbivores can have negative ecological and socioeconomic effects on plant communities through consumption, trampling... more
Rangelands are complex systems because the dynamic relationships between their parts result in self-organization, emergent properties, and unpredictable behavior. This panarchy of nested adaptive cycles that oscillate between order and... more