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Titre :	Cattle Grazing in Wetlands
Auteurs :	Beth Middleton, Auteur ; C. Max Finlayson, Auteur ; Mark Everard, Auteur ; Kenneth Irvine, Auteur ; Robert J. McInnes, Auteur ; Beth A. Middleton, Auteur ; Anne A. van Dam, Auteur ; Nick C. Davidson, Auteur
Type de document :	Chapitre
Editeur :	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2016
Format :	1-6
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés:	Disturbance dynamics ; Gleasonian succession ; Shrub invasion ; Succession
Résumé :	Cattle grazing drives successional change in wetland vegetation by removing tall grasses and other vegetation. As a disturbance, cattle grazing in some ways resembles natural disturbances such as native mammal grazing and lightning-strike fire, which can support higher biodiversity in wetlands. To encourage rare and Red-Listed species, natural land managers sometimes incorporate a variety of techniques to remove tall vegetation including mowing, hand-cutting, burning and cattle grazing. As a farming practice, cattle grazing was once very common in world wetlands, but as agriculture intensified after WWII, small-scale farmers slowly stopped grazing cattle in natural wetlands. As a result, tall macrophyte and woody species have overgrown some wetland types once used as pastures for cattle.
En ligne :	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_60-2
contenu dans :	The Wetland Book I : Structure and Function, Management, and Methods

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