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Controlling invasive annual grasses in grazed pastures: population dynamics and critical gap sizes.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Tozer, K. N. & Chapman, D. F. & Quigley, P. E. & Dowling, P. M. & Cousens, R. D. & Kearney, G. A. & Sedcole, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Vulpia (Vulpia bromoides and V. myuros) and barley grass Hordeum murinum are prevalent annual grass weeds of native grasslands and grazed pastures in ...

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Bush-control studies in the drier areas of Kenya. 2. An evaluation of the Holt IXa 'Bush Breaker' in Tarchonanthus/Acacia thicket.

Published online: 06 Mar 1966

Authors: Pratt, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In experiments begun in 1958 in Baringo District Kenya, the Holt IXa bush control machine was used ± grass sowing and subsequent burning in a grazing ...

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Factors influencing molehill distribution in grassland: implications for controlling the damage caused by molehills.

Published online: 05 Aug 1999

Authors: Edwards, G. R. & Crawley, M. J. & Heard, M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The possibility of controlling molehill distribution by using management procedures that alter the availability of earthworms, the principal food of m...

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Some aspects of competition between pasture species: the effect of environment and defoliation.

Published online: 09 Sep 1971

Authors: Scarisbrick, D. H. & Ivins, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

See also Abs. 804. A series of glasshouse, growth room and field experiments were designed to study interference between perennial ryegrass [Lolium pe...

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Survival of larvae of Anoplognathus porosus (Dalman) and Sericesthis nigrolineata Boisd. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).

Published online: 01 Jan 1977

Authors: Hassan, S. T. & Hilditch, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

With the aid of a field plot layout of semi-controlled environments developed by R.L. Davidson, J.R. Wiseman & V.J. Wolfe to validate simulation m...

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The fate of legume seeds eaten by sheep from a Mediterranean grassland.

Published online: 16 Jan 1993

Authors: Russi, L. & Cocks, P. S. & Roberts, E. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The consumption of legume seed by grazing sheep was assessed in a Mediterranean grassland in NW Syria, during the summers of 1986 and 1987. Large padd...

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Restoration of the fire-grazing interaction in Artemisia filifolia shrubland.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Winter, S. L. & Fuhlendorf, S. D. & Goad, C. L. & Davis, C. A. & Hickman, K. R. & Leslie, D. M., Jr.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Patterns of landscape heterogeneity are crucial to the maintenance of biodiversity in shrublands and grasslands, yet management practices in these eco...

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Control of meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria through a change of management from grazing to mowing at an English floodplain meadow.

Published online: 21 Jun 2022

Authors: George, L. & Rothero, E. C. & Tatarenko, I. & Wallace, H. & Dodd, M. & Reed, N. & Fleckney, A. & Bellamy, G. & Gowing, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Floodplain meadow grassland is a diverse habitat which has become increasingly rare throughout Europe. Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria, is a character...

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Higher dung seedling density increases livestock dung greenhouse gas emissions in an alpine meadow.

Published online: 19 Feb 2024

Authors: Wang ShuLin & Hou, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The dung seed bank (i.e. vegetation renewal) and greenhouse gas (GHG, e.g. carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which contribu...

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Long-term effects of defoliation: incomplete recovery of a New Zealand alpine tussock grass, Chionochloa pallens, after 20 years.

Published online: 26 May 2000

Authors: Lee, W. G. & Fenner, M. & Loughnan, A. & Lloyd, K. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Chionochloa pallens, a New Zealand low alpine tussock grass, is an important food plant of the takahé (Porphyrio hochstetteri), a rare endemic flightl...

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