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Heather [Calluna vulgaris] moorland is an internationally important resource; it is valued as food and habitat for a range of herbivores as well as fo...

Outbreaks of the water vole Arvicola terrestris cause severe damage in grasslands of upland regions of Europe. The sheer speed of this phenomenon is a...

Multiple land-use change drivers affect, in most cases negatively, the biodiversity in species-rich meadows. Empirical data that can help to disentang...

Management of public lands, and who should have access to them, is often contentious. Most ranches in the western US rely upon seasonal grazing access...

The quantity and quality of throughfall, stemflow and litterflow under typical bracken(Pteridium aquilinum)-infested Agrostis/Festuca pastures in an u...

Tadham Moor, a species-rich lowland moor, was given 0, 25, 50, 100 or 200 kg N/ha annually. Treatments with applied N were given replacement levels of...

Diet selection studies of two wild species (Bison bison and Antilocapra americana) and domestic cattle and sheep were used to compare the ecological r...

Habitat structure is a major determinant of bird species diversity. One process by which habitat structure is altered is livestock grazing, the most e...

Fragmentation of heather and conversion to grass under heavy grazing is a widespread phenomenon. In the British uplands it is attributed in particular...

An experiment was set up in 1986 on a species-poor grassland in Oxfordshire to determine the effect of sheep grazing management on vegetation change a...