Tussock grassland
Demographic drivers of biomass carbon recovery in degraded perennial tussock grassland, with and without domestic grazing
... Zealand’s tussock grassland species are perennial, long-lived, and can accumulate relatively high ...rigida grassland, with over two-thirds of ...
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Influence of pastoral management on plant biodiversity in a depleted short tussock grassland, Mackenzie Basin
... short tussock grassland with a strong Hieracium pilosella ...native tussock Poa colensoi had significantly greater cover abundance while Festuca novae-zelandiae tussocks were significantly taller in ...
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Trend in bare ground from tussock grassland surveys, Canterbury, New Zealand
... southwestern end of Craigieburn Range (Fig. 1). The plots were resurveyed in February 1984. They sample a variety of slopes from 880 to 1370 m altitude (Table 2). Mean annual precipitation is about 1200 mm. The ...
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Burning in a New Zealand snow-tussock grassland: Effects on vegetation and soil fauna
... The study site, at 975 m above sea level, had apparently been unburnt for about 25 years and supported dense Chionochloa rigida ssp. rigida tall tussock grassland. In spring (October) 1990 the area north of ...
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Rapid short-tussock grassland decline with and without grazing, Marlborough, New Zealand
... Abstract: Species abundance, species richness, and ground cover were measured over 10 years on nine paired grazed and exclosure plots in short-tussock grassland in the early stages of invasion by Hieracium ...
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Recovery of short tussock and woody species guilds in ungrazed Festuca novae-zelandiae short tussock grassland with fertiliser or irrigation
... short tussock grasslands, in order to re-establish some of the prehuman ecological processes, habitats and biodiversity ...short tussock grasslands would be to increase the biomass and stature of native ...
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Impact of disturbance on above-ground water storage capacity of bryophytes in New Zealand indigenous tussock grassland ecosystems
... tall-tussock grassland observed at Deep Stream (Lammerlaw Range, south-eastern New Zealand) appeared to be widespread in the area ...this grassland were species of shady and moist habitats, usually ...
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Runoff generating processes in adjacent tussock grassland and pine plantation catchments as indicated by mean transit time estimation using tritium
... The east Otago uplands of New Zealand’s South Island have long been the focus of attention because of the envi- ronmental consequences of converting native tussock grass- lands to other land covers, notably ...
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Burning in a New Zealand snow-tussock grassland: Effects on soil microbial biomass and nitrogen and phosphorus availability
... Here we investigate the combined effects of a farm-scale, pastoral fire and subsequent grazing by sheep on soil microbial biomass C, N and P at a tussock-grassland site in Central Otago (Yeates and Lee, ...
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The Changing Abundance of Moths in a Tussock Grassland, 1962- 1989, and 50-Year to 70-Year Trends
... Qualitative changes in grasses, e.g., shifts in the apparent vitality of Festuca swards, offer at best a partial explanation for decreases in grass feeders (Table 3, Fig. 5). Disappearance of the semi-moribund tussocks ...
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Ecological studies on montane tussock grassland
... (i) The Point Quadrat method of analysis, recording the total number of bits on vertical pins, is the most suitable of the techniques studied for determining bota[r] ...
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Studies on the biology of soil dwelling nematodes of tussock grassland
... Relationship between variation of numbers of nematodes in ecological feeding groups and species, with variation of soil moisture... Method of calculation of the lag phase between tempera[r] ...
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Comparison of distance-measurement techniques for sampling tussock grassland species in New Zealand.
... Batcheler, C. Estimating density and dispersion from truncated or unrestricted joint point-distance nearest neighbour distances. Experiments in estimating density from [r] ...
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Use and conservation of New Zealand native grasslands in 2079
... of tussock grassland, which are undoubtedly highly modified from a century of grazing, yet there seems to be less pressure to reserVe areas of dense tussock, matagouri, spaniard and the multitude of ...
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Ecological studies of Hieracium pilosella and H praealtum
... species are considered: a polymorphism, and chromosomal and gen9typic variability, b growth, reproduction and productivity at several montane tussock grassland sites, c ecophysiology of [r] ...
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Tasmanian high mountain vegetation II Rocky Hill and Pyramid Mountain
... Other Alpine Vegetation Types Of the alpine vegetation types recognized by Kirkpatrick 1983 only tussock grassland and deciduous heath are absent from the study area, and, excluding the [r] ...
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Biome transition in a changing world: from indigenous grasslands to shrub-dominated communities
... in grassland and eventually overtop it (Chapman & Bannister ...these grassland landscapes may have been facilitated by frequent past burning that reduced the abundance of broadleaved forest trees and ...
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Grassland management: case study of vegetation characteristics and grazing systems in Mongolia plateau
... for grassland vegetation refreshment and pasture animal husbandry becomes complex due to self-frangibility and severe damage of typical grassland ...grazing grassland utilization ways which has not ...
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Can diverse forage mixtures optimise ruminant animal production, resilience and environmental impact?
... of grassland typology is needed to adopt the best management practices; in fact, the differences in vegetation and phytosociological associations are still relevant in ...homogenise grassland typologies at ...
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Volume 6, Number 1 (January 1953)
... Davies. This new book by the Director of the Grassland Research Station for Great Britain should be welcomed by all work- ers interested in grassland management. [r] ...
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