the obstacles towards this pursuit not only negatively affect the views and perceptions of the forest villagers about forest resources but also, from time to time, causes turkey, which has the appropriate environment in terms of livestock, to become one of the countries that import meat. in this study, the perception and views of hair goat breeders about forestry & livestock breeding relati...

It has been suggested that microcarnivorous reef fishes may play an important role in giant kelp forest communities by preventing infestations of mesograzers that could severely impact or potentially destroy recovering kelp forests after extreme disturbance events. However, these trophic linkages, specifically the direct and indirect effects of fishes on the biomass of mesograzers, grazing inte...

Making use of existing fences as ready-made exclosures, this study aimed to assess the long-term effects of cattle grazing on forest margins. Results indicated: 1) that cattle browsing and trampling has an impact on vegetation species composition, structure and regeneration; 2) that the effects of a particular grazing regime may take many decades to dissipate; and 3) that the impacts of cattle ...

One of the most palpable effects of warming in Arctic ecosystems is shrub expansion above the tree line. However, previous studies have found that reindeer can influence plant community responses to warming and inhibit shrubification of the tundra.We revisited grazed (ambient) and ungrazed study plots (exclosures), at the southern as well as the northern limits of the Swedish alpine region, to ...

Satellite data of Landsat and SPOT type are operationally used in Sweden for nationwide forest mapping; for detection of clear felled areas and for checking the need for deciduous shrub cleaning in young forest plantations. The data are also used by the Sami people for mapping areas of interest for reindeer grazing. The Swedish forest agency has since 1999 acquired a yearly and nationwide set o...

Aim Temperate forests are currently facing multiple stresses due to climate change, biological invasions, habitat fragmentation and fire regime change. How these stressors interact with each other influences how, when whether ecosystems recover, or they adapt transition a different ecological state. Because forest recovery collapse may take longer than human lifetime, predicting the outcomes of...

9 In: Vance, Regina K.; Edminster, Carleton B.; Covington, W. Wallace; Blake, Julie A. comps. 2001. Ponderosa pine ecosystems restoration and conservation: steps toward stewardship; 2000 April 25–27; Flagstaff, AZ. Proceedings RMRS-P-22. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Merrill R. Kaufmann is a Research Forest Ecologist, Paula J. Fornwa...

Vegetation can play a major role in the hydrologic ecosystem service tradeoffs resulting from land use change: by affecting the volume of rain water that reaches the ground surface, vegetation affects water supply. But because canopy interception of rainfall is affected in complex and competing ways by forest structure and ambient weather conditions, both of which vary at small and large scales...

We examine the relationship between disturbance regime and plot size for woody biomass estimation in a midwestern old-growth deciduousforestfrom 1926 to 1992. Analysis was done on the core 19.6 ac of a 50. I ac forest in which every tree 4 in. dbh and greater has been tagged and mapped since 1926. Five windows of time are compared-1926, 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1992. The most ejficient plot sizes r...