Controlled grazing: Botanical response and animal performance

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2005
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Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing
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In chapter 15, Abaye et al. investigated the regenerative potential of pastureland in two villages through a controlled experiment with tethered grazing of small ruminants. This work builds on the Holistic Management (chapter 9) insight that animal impact is not simply a function of numbers of livestock or duration of grazing time in order to provide management indicators that optimize the potential of forage regeneration/biomass production rates, plant biodiversity, and animal performance. The chapter concludes that grazing vegetation down to a 3cm height on any particular parcel is likely to limit forage regeneration.

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Controlled grazing, Biodiversity, Semiarid zones, Environmental impacts, Pasture management, Over grazing, Livestock, Ruminants, Holistic management, Animal impact, Indicators, Forage regeneration, Field Scale
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