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The effect of grazing in winter by wild geese on improved grassland in west Scotland.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Patton, D. L. H. & Frame, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

After 2 trials in late winter 1973-4, 6 main experiments were conducted over the winter periods of 1974-5 and 1975-6 to determine the loss of herbage ...

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Setting sustainable grazing levels for heather moorland: a multi-site analysis.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Pakeman, R. J. & Nolan, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many habitats of high conservation value are managed by grazing but could be damaged by poor grazing management. Approaches and methods to set appropr...

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Modelling patterns of defoliation by grazing animals in rangelands.

Published online: 24 Jun 1994

Authors: Pickup, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Techniques and models for identifying the distribution of grazing by domestic animals in large (>100 km2) rangeland paddocks in arid central Austra...

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Herbaceous biomass in a Eucalyptus savanna woodland after removing trees and/or shrubs.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Harrington, G. N. & Johns, G. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Herbaceous biomass was monitored for 9 years in an intact, semiarid savanna woodland near Bourke, New South Wales, with a 15% canopy cover of E. popul...

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Use of grassland and field selection by brent geese Branta bernicla.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Summers, R. W. & Critchley, C. N. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Around Scolt Head Island, N. Norfolk 43.7%, 57.7% and 65.5% of the cumulative total number of observations of brent geese (Branta b. bernicla) were ma...

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Succession of disturbed and undisturbed chalk grassland at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve: dynamics of species changes.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Ward, L. K. & Jennings, R. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The first 14 years of secondary succession, from 1969 to 1982, are described in a randomized block design experiment on chalk grassland at Aston Rowan...

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Succession of disturbed and undisturbed chalk grassland at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve: details of changes in species.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Ward, L. K. & Jennings, R. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A randomized block design experiment on succession at Aston Rowant, UK was recorded from 1969 to 1982. The treatments were annual grazing, and no graz...

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Population dynamics of the perennial rangeland shrubs Atriplex vesicaria, Maireana astrotricha and M. pyramidata under grazing, 1980-87.

Published online: 17 Aug 1990

Authors: Eldridge, D. J. & Westoby, M. & Stanley, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Moderate grazing by Hereford cattle or by sheep on the Mundi Mundi Plain, New South Wales, in 1980-87 did not affect the population dynamics of the pe...

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The effects of sheep stocking intensity on the abundance and distribution of mesofauna in pastures.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: King, K. L. & Hutchinson, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Collembola and Acarina populations in grass/legume pastures that were grazed continuously with sheep at three stocking intensities were sampled at six...

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Spring grazing and the manipulation of food quality by barnacle geese.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Ydenberg, R. C. & Prins, H. H. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The foraging activities of a large flock of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) wintering on the West Friesian island of Schiermonnikoog were monitored ...

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