The increasing dominance of purple moor-grass Molinia caerulea in heathland ecosystems the UK is growing concern due to its detrimental impact on plant and animal diversity sites nature conservation interest. use free-ranging ponies reduce was investigated from 2017 2019 within a 425 ha site Dartmoor, UK. Salt blocks were used attract Molinia-dominated area heath site, away their previously-pre...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org W recreation and tourism activities in parks, wilderness, and protected areas continue to show trends of increasing participation (Cordell 2008; Balmford et al. 2009). Associated with this rise in visitation are anthropogenic disturbances that result in environmental impacts, which in turn raise concerns as to whether recreation and...

infiltration rate of water into the soil depends on the factors such as rock and litter cover, canopy cover, rainfall intensity, coarse material, land slope, soil texture and amount of initial soil moisture. the most important factors that are effective in the water infiltration rate of rangelands are livestock trampling and vegetation reduction due to the overgrazing. in present study, through...

Donkor, N. T., Gedir, J. V., Hudson, R. J., Bork, E. W., Chanasyk, D. S. and Naeth, M. A. 2002. Impacts of grazing systems on soil compaction and pasture production in Alberta. Can. J. Soil Sci. 82: 1–8. Livestock trampling impacts have been assessed in many Alberta grassland ecosystems, but the impacts of animal trampling on Aspen Boreal ecosystems have not been documented. This study compared...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of developing a scientifically based organization and use distant pastures in south Kazakhstan. It has been found that composition diversity pasture grasses have significant effect on forage value grass stand ultimately affect capacity desert pastures. Grazing farm animals should be carried out with an optimal load pastures, is, no more than 70% prod...

Research and field monitoring can disturb wetland integrity. Adoption of ethical practices is needed to limit induced stressors such as trampling, non-native seed invertebrate dispersal, disease fungal spread. We identify a linear pathway deterioration highlighting that progress cumulative impacts, consequences, losses at the site scale. The first step minimize disturbance assess classify curre...