Calcareous grassland
Habitat associations of epigeal spiders in upland calcareous grassland landscapes: the importance for conservation
... with calcareous grassland in the present study, utilises tufts of Festuca ovina, the second most abundant plant species in these upland calcareous grasslands (Lyons et ...both grassland ...
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Severe effects of long-term drought on calcareous grassland seed banks
... in calcareous grassland plots in the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL) at Harpur Hill, a site near Buxton, ...the calcareous grassland structure, composition and function; 29 in ...
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Managing calcareous grassland for the declining Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina butterfly: effects of grazing management on Primula host plants
... Fartmann (2005) found that W/SW slopes were preferred for female oviposting in calcareous grassland in the Diemeltal region of Germany. He attributed this to potential host Primula being too desiccated on ...
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Managing biodiversity in upland calcareous grassland landscapes: A case study of spiders and ground beetles
... Sparse resource availability for calcareous grassland management in Germany creates further challenges for conservation (Figure 1). In addition to nationally reduced sheep numbers, a relatively small number ...
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Ants contribute to pollination but not to reproduction in a rare calcareous grassland forb
... Two ant species were observed to visit the nectaries of E. seguieriana. Formica cunicularia Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Fig. 1) is a moderately thermophilic species and common throughout Europe where it prefers ...
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Nine years of change in the flora of Ellerburn Bank, a limestone grassland in the North York Moors
... in 2008 (data from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in van den Berg et al., loc. cit.). This is within the range of critical loads for adverse effects on calcareous grassland based on field experiments ...
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Can diverse forage mixtures optimise ruminant animal production, resilience and environmental impact?
... Dynamilk is a dynamic model which mimics the farming system functioning of a grassland dairy farm. It is a deterministic model with a daily time step. Dynamilk is based on a bio-technical approach focused on ...
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The dynamics of temporary wetlands in dune slacks at Tangimoana, Manawatu, New Zealand with special reference to the endangered sand spiked sedge, Eleocharis neozelandica Kirk (Cyperaceae) : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Ecology at Massey University
... Species richness in the six communities range from 1.7 in the fore dune to 9.2 in the grassland communities, with a high proportion of exotic species especially in the grassland, shrub d[r] ...
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Brazilian Tropical Grassland Ecosystems: Distribution and Research Advances
... For a long time, research on forage crops in Brazil emphasized studies on the curve of the herbage accumula- tion after cutting or grazing and their seasonal production and morphological composition, being herbage accu- ...
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Grazing and pasture management for plant biodiversity benefit
... in grassland biodiversity management is mainte- nance and enhancement of sward structural heterogeneity, and thus botanical and faunal diversity, by selective defoliation due to dietary choices, treading, nutrient ...
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Spatial variations of shallow and deep soil moisture in the semi arid Loess Plateau, China
... tive grassland, PO – potato farmland, AF – abandoned farm- land, AL – alfalfa grassland, KP – korshinsk peashrub, CP – Chinese red pine, CA – Chinese arborvitae, and SA – Siberian apricot) were selected to ...
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The economic utilisation of grassland
... Total roughage required per sheep unit Table 14 Feed supplied by pasture Feed supplied by hay or silage* Pasture equivalent of hay or silage 3 X 2T%° Total pasture equivalent 2+ 4 Produc[r] ...
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LITTER BIOMASS OF A GRASSLAND COMMUNITY OF KAPTIPADA FOREST RANGE OF MAYURBHANJ DISTRICT IN ODISHA, INDIA
... The litter biomass value of the experimental grassland community of Kaptipada forest range of Odisha did not show similarity with other grassland communities of different location. This variation in litter ...
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Adsorption of Phenol on Marl Calcareous
... The experiments were performed in a volume of 200 ml stirred reactor. Furthermore to ensure good dispersion of solid particles of limestone marl, we adopted the value of 10 g/l for solid/liquid ratio. The methods derived ...
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Grassland management: case study of vegetation characteristics and grazing systems in Mongolia plateau
... natural grassland vegetation, the improvement of unit production value of grassland animal husbandry, and some key problems for optimal model of great significance should be tackled ...semiarid ...
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A guide to organic grassland
... Medium/long term grazing leys Cattle grazing Seed Mixtures kg/ha Perennial ryegrass 20 Italian ryegrass/Timothy 8 Meadow fescue Cocksfoot White clover 4 Red clover Total 32.. From the en[r] ...
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Complementary Financing for Environment in the Context of Accession – Innovative Resources: National Report Croatia A project for the European Commission (contract 070201/2006/443879/MAR/E3)
... Corncrake (Crex crex) is a globally threatened species. Its survival is directly linked with grassland management. The Corncrake requires tall grass, as this provides the best shelter, feeding and nesting place. ...
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Features of a Grassland Theory.
... was translated by Privatdozent Dr. Bommer, lnstitut jiir Griinlandwirtschajt und Futter- bau, University Giessen, Germany, as a contribution to the discussions held [r] ...
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Incorporating grassland management in ORCHIDEE: model description and evaluation at 11 eddy-covariance sites in Europe
... process-based grassland model devel- oped by Riedo et ...simulates grassland pro- cesses at a sub-daily time ...main grassland services such as forage and milk production, as well as the C, N, water ...
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Scientific studies on effective application of some important essential elements Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Zinc (Zn) Nutritional values on spike and Floret development in gladiolus crop
... Response of gladiolus to different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus on growth, spike and corm production in calcareous. soil[r] ...
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