Habitat and avifaunal recovery from livestock grazing in a riparian meadow system of the Northwestern Great Basin

Article Abstract:

Recovery of a riparian meadow system from livestock grazing was compared in an exclosure plot, where livestock had not grazed for about 30 years, and an adjacent open plot, where livestock were removed just before the four-year study began. The exclosure plot had more sedge cover, forb cover, and herbal foliage height diversity, while the open plot had more bare ground, litter cover, shrub cover, and shrub foliage height diversity.

Oregon, Great Basin, Meadows, Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon

---

Degradation and environmental conservation: response to Mishra and Rawat

Article Abstract:

India's livestock grazing policies do not conflict with conservation efforts. While intense grazing can create stand structure differences, these changes do not necessarily lead to land degradation. The development of conservation programs, however, should include evaluations of micromanaging for individual species against overall sustainable management of the ecosystem in general.

Environmental policy

---

Livestock grazing and biodiversity conservation: comments on Saberwal

Article Abstract:

Human land-use policies can have a significant impact on conservation efforts. Livestock grazing practices in India have compromised species diversity in both plants and animals, but is not immediately apparent as physical signs such as erosion have not occurred. Land-use policies should be backed with extensive scientific research rather than visual observations.

Planning, Economic policy, Land use

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Modeling and mapping abundance of American Woodcock across the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Relationship of obligate grassland birds to landscape structure in Wisconsin
• Abstracts: Letter from Brazil. Spirits of the forest
• Abstracts: Survival of radiomarked canvasback ducklings in northwestern Minnesota. Implanting intra-abdominal radiotransmitters with external whip antennas in ducks
• Abstracts: Use of habitats by female northern pintails wintering in southwestern Louisiana. Survival of female northern pintails wintering in Southwestern Louisiana
• Abstracts: Analysis of error from cementum-annuli age estimates of known-age Pennsylvania black bears. Effect of undercounting and model selection on a sightability-adjustment estimator for elk

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.