Insect populations show strong temporal fluctuations in abundance. This renders classical monitoring studies extremely difficult to provide insights into specific management actions. For rare species of conservation concern, it is not an option develop large scale experiments assess and steer landscape-level actions such as grazing management. Bembix rostrata (Linnaeus, 1758) a threatened digge...

More than 20.1 million hectares of the territory Republic Uzbekistan are pastures, which 16-17 located in desert region. Karakol sheep, unlike other farm animals, have very valuable biological properties, they able to breed harsh continental climates, sparsely vegetated, saline, arid without consuming absolutely green fodder summer, autumn and winter has ability provide products (astrakhan leat...

BACKGROUND According to targeted treatment (TT), the whole flock is dewormed based on knowledge of the risk, or parameters that quantify the mean level of infection, whereas according to targeted selective treatment (TST), only individual animals within the grazing group are treated, based on parasitological, production and/or morbidity parameters. The aim of this study was to compare two diffe...

In mid-season prime lamb production it is essential to optimise lamb performance from grazed pasture to minimise costs and so improve margins from sheep production. This is achieved by continuously supplying high feed value herbage for the duration of the grazing season. Feed value is a combination of nutritive value (i.e. digestibility) and intake characteristics (which is a combination of her...

This paper investigates how emotions, in this case fear, affect behaviour. We consider deer and sheep as exemplary flocking mammals. The paper also describes and applies a mechanism to measure different types of flocking, using singular values and entropy to compute complexity. Results show that emotion can be used to regulate two competing and vital behaviours inherent in herding animals: the ...