Endozoochory is a substantial vector for seed dispersal and plays an important role in vegetation dynamics, mainly colonisation processes through input to the soil bank. We investigated endozoochorous by cattle sheep on pasture located western region of Burkina Faso. Through germination experiments, we assessed viable content dung these grazing animals estimate their suitability efficiency fodd...

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) method for potential evapotranspiration assessment is based on the crop coefficient, which allows one to relate the reference evapotranspiration of well irrigated grass to the potential evapotranspiration of specific crops. The method was originally developed for cultivated species based on lysimeter measurements of potential evapotranspiration. Not ...

Increasing human populations impose enormous pressure on natural habitats. For example, forests around the world are being converted into timber, pastures, croplands and settlements. To put the rate of deforestation into context, an area equivalent of ∼50 football fields is destroyed every minute [1]. While this development is one of the most important threats to biological diversity, human hea...

Phenological changes within a growth season were investigated in two grazed, seminatural grasslands in southern Sweden. On four occasions during the growth season, two independent observers recorded plant frequency and percentage cover. The vegetation data sets were analysed with ordination methods. The temporal changes were highly significant, but accounted for only a small part of the total v...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to establish a genuine participatory management approach involving all stakeholders, including citizens, in the fight against desertification within degraded steppe region with its unique natural and economic characteristics. This becomes essential as it presents only viable alternative obsolete tribal rule.
 Methods: We adopted descriptive assess condi...

Chen, W., McCaughey, W. P., Grant, C. A. and Bailey, L. D. 2001. Pasture type and fertilization effects on soil chemical properties and nutrient redistribution. Can. J. Soil Sci. 81: 395–404. Soil samples were collected from beef pastures varying in species composition and fertilizer inputs after being grazed by cow-calf pairs for 4 yr (1995–1998) near Brandon, Manitoba. The objective of this e...

and Implications Forage mass and nutritional quality were measured in the total forage monthly from May through September and in live forage in the upper half of the sward in June and August and related to body weights, body condition scores and daily methane emissions in pastures grazed at a stocking rate of 1.98 cows per hectare by continuous, rotational or strip-stocking at a limited forage ...