tussock grasslands
Effects of sheep grazing exclusion on alpine tall tussock grasslands
... tall tussock grasslands are being retired from grazing as part of Crown pastoral lease tenure review because of the perceived negative impact of grazing ...tall tussock grasslands used for ...
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Changes in the Structure of Tall Tussock Grasslands and Infestation by Species of Hieracium in the Mackenzie Country, New Zealand
... The process of deterioration, defined doubtless by Leonard Cockayne for the Commission on Southern Pastoral Lands (1920) as 'a reduction in palatability through the destruction of palatable species', had then already ...
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Divergent small-scale spatial patterns in New Zealand’s short tussock grasslands
... short tussock grasslands, Scott (1959, 1961) examined the spatial relationships between tussocks and inter-tussock herbs using nearest neighbour techniques, and found that tussocks influenced the ...
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Factors predisposing short-tussock grasslands to Hieracium invasion in Marlborough, New Zealand
... the tussock canopy) was the primary cause for invasion by ...short-tussock grasslands over a similar period, neither hypothesis proved adequate (Rose, Platt and Frampton, ...
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Declining plant species richness in the tussock grasslands of Canterbury and Otago, South Island, New Zealand
... Our results also call into question the results of a recent study (Gibson and Bosch, 1996) suggesting that changes in the abundance of certain 'indicator' species can be used to monitor pastoral impacts in tussock ...
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The Implications of Past Exploitation and Current Developments to the Conservation of South Island Tussock Grasslands
... land's tussock grasslands, especially where these grasslands have a potential for pastoral ...of grasslands in natural and degraded condition, in conjunction with grasslands under ...
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Administrative and managerial responses to changes in economic and ecological conditions in New Zealand tussock grasslands
... economic stimulus for sowing of more productive pasture. Runholders on the lowlands generally converted their runs to large farming estates. The 1889 election of a [r] ...
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Trend in bare ground from tussock grassland surveys, Canterbury, New Zealand
... In 1947, transects were established by the North Canterbury Catchment Board in the central Waimakariri River to monitor the effects of grazing on the tussock grasslands. Seven of these 200-300 m long ...
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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 grassland in South Island, New Zealand, we tested the propositions (1) that present regional trends in vascular plant species-richness in tussock grasslands are independent of current ...
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Daily activity of stoats (Mustela erminea), feral ferrets (Mustela furo) and feral house cats (Felis catus) in coastal grassland, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
... Island tussock grasslands ferrets were almost entirely nocturnal whereas feral house cats showed moderate day activity, but were mainly active at night (Pierce, 1987; Baker, 1989; Middlemiss, 1995); and ...
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Cutting up the high country: the social construction of tenure review and ecological sustainability
... protecting tussock grasslands as parks is strongly linked with FMC and the Public Lands ...that tussock grasslands be designated and protected as ...
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Use and conservation of New Zealand native grasslands in 2079
... native grasslands there are the tall tussocks at the higher altitudes, ranging from Chionochloa rigida types (solid shading in ...short tussock grasslands in which *Paper delivered at the 1979 ANZAAS ...
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Nitrogen Balances in Natural Grasslands and Extensively-Managed Grassland Systems
... There are many apparent parallels and conver- gences between the microfloral, faunal, enzymic and organo-chemical processes indicated in Soil Bureau D.S.I.R. studies from Otago sites and those of Pawnee and Matador sites ...
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Dew frequency across the US from a network of in situ radiometers
... the grasslands is based on the calculation of the aerodynamic resistance to vapor transport, which depends on many variables and is therefore prone to more ...the grasslands, and only one site (DSNY) failed ...
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Ecology of California Grasslands.
... The shrubs and trees are green throughout the summer except for certain species, such as poison oak and California buckeye, which drop their leaves in early Aug[r] ...
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The status and future of Australian grasslands
... The use of this example takes us a long way from the large nature reserve of hummock grassland in central Australia where few people live, or even visit, to a pocket-sized reserve in between suburban developments on the ...
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Biome transition in a changing world: from indigenous grasslands to shrub-dominated communities
... a tussock water catchment also has the potential to reduce water yield, as has been observed for afforestation of grasslands in many regions of the world (Farley et ...Glendhu tussock water catchment ...
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Organic farming on grasslands
... permanent grasslands and grassing of arable land are the most commonly realized agroenvironmental ...permanent grasslands represent a very important cultivation on agricultural land that preserves ...
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West country grasslands
... feeding crops to sheep on the land, or by ploughing crops and crop residues straight into the soil ; the addition of organic matter must generally be accompanied by the addition of lime [r] ...
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The effect of water stress on water relations, carbon isotype discrimination, and shoot and root growth of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia Scop ) and lucerne (Medicago sativa L ) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Department of Plant Science at Massey University
... 1 3 : The full turgor osmotic potential MPa using the Decagon of Eski, Grasslands G35 and lucerne Grasslands Oranga at dawn and midday at early harvest 45 days after planting, DAP, late [r] ...
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