Grasses and forbs
Reaction of a California Annual-plant Community to Fire.
... Comparison of percentage of grasses and forbs present on adjoining burned and unburned portions of Exclosure I at three stages of plant development as the season[r] ...
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An Evaluation of Big Game Winte Range in Southwestern Alberta.
... The study consisted es- sentially of the determination of the density and composition of range grasses and forbs on heavi- ly utilized big game winter ranges an[r] ...
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Volume 20, Number 4 (July 1967)
... An adjacent pasture, grazed in both spring and fall, deteriorated to poor condition as grasses and forbs decreased markedly and sage- brush increased.. Heavy sprin[r] ...
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Effects of Spring and Fall Grazing Sheep on Vegetation of the Upper Snake River Plains.
... They not only found that heavy spring stocking reduced grasses and forbs while unpal- atable shrubs greatly increased, but that heavy fall grazing alone caused a[r] ...
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Effect of Burning and Clipping on Growth of Native Prairie in Iowa.
... Effects of burning and clipping were studied on growth of some dominant and principal subdom- inant grasses and forbs on a mesic native prairie in northeast- ern Io[r] ...
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Factors contributing to the recalcitrance of herbaceous dicotyledons (forbs) to enzymatic deconstruction
... of grasses compared to forbs in early successional old field commu- nities comprising 7 to 14 ...and forbs) and to elucidate the underlying reasons for the apparent superiority of grasses over ...
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Volume 33, Number 1 (January 1980)
... However, due to present and past grazing management, greater amounts of short grasses, annual grasses, and forbs were present on the silty range sites, which res[r] ...
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Making biodiversity measures accessible to non specialists: An innovative method for rapid assessment of urban biodiversity
... The next step of the method involved identifying and recording the genera of vascular plants. Each one of the four radii that were established to delineate the sampling plots was used as a ten meter wide transect along ...
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Forbs Rather Than Grasses as Key Factors Affecting Succession of Abandoned Fields - A Case Study from a Subalpine Region of the Eastern Tibet Plateau
... In contrast to most successional studies, in which seed size increases over time [11], we found generally declining seed size over successional time. The exceptions to this general pattern were the legume functional ...
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Nutritional Evaluation and Palatability of Major Range Forbs from South Darfur, Sudan
... annual grasses with some ...grazing grasses, forbs with some browse shrubs and trees ...nutritious forbs is important to increase the livestock ...dominant forbs of Gahzal Gawazat ...
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Can the Stepping Stone Enhance the Establishment, Competition and Distribution of Sown Grassland Species during Recovery on Ex Arable Lands?
... Seven of the fifteen sown species were successful in the stepping stone plots, with B. inermis being the most important between them (Figure 3). All sown species were also more abundant in the treatments where they were ...
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Effecs of including forbs on N2 fixation and N yield in red clover ryegrass mixtures
... the forbs could acquire sufficient amounts of N—potentially by uptake from deeper soil layers—for their growth even without slurry ...and forbs, showing that forbs to a greater extent relied on soil ...
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Laboratory tests of oviposition by the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, on dark soil as influenced by presence or absence of vegetation
... Short grasses were more acceptable than medium and tall grasses when no bare soil was ...the grasses increased from 50–70% (in 2004) to 90% (in ...of grasses might act as a barrier pre- ...
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Can tropical grasses grown as cover crops improve soil phosphorus availability?
... fallow, as observed by Horst et al. (2001) growing Lablab purpureus. According to Canellas et al. (2004), the addition of crop residues on the soil surface results in increased soil diester P, which is considered a ...
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Fertilization and Its Effect on Range Improvement in the Northern Great Plains.
... trogen fertilizer to a deteriorated range site changed the botanical composition from predominantly forbs and shortgrass species to a western wheatgrass and short- [r] ...
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Effect of Clipping on Herbage and Flower Stalk Production of Three Summer Range Forbs.
... Flower stalk production: average number per plant by species, year, and treatment.. Production decreased with increase in[r] ...
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Anaerobic mono digestion of lucerne, grass and forbs Influence of species and cutting frequency
... In stockless organic plant production systems, it is a challenge to maintain adequate soil fertility, with stagnating or declining crop yields and weed problems as the consequences. In order to counteract this, it is ...
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Anaerobic co digestion of grass and forbs – Influence of cattle manure or grass based inoculum
... deep-rooting forbs species ...These forbs have recently shown notable biogas yields ...and forbs with com- plementary nutrient composition could have a higher probability of synergistically enhancing ...
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Hordeeae Epichloë endophytes and the formation of synthetic symbioses with cereal grasses : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Biology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Cereal grasses such as wheat, barley and rye are important to human and animal nutrition and indeed to the foundation and maintenance of Western ...cereal grasses such as wheat, barley and rye do not host ...
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Forbs enhance productivity of unfertilised grass clover leys and support low carbon bioenergy
... To indicate possible synergies between plant species, the total DM yields of the grass-clover mixture and three 60% forb-containing mixtures were compared with the expected values calculated from their respective pure ...
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