Sentence examples for herbaceous forage from inspiring English sources

In Africa, WPE has been identified as a concern for rangeland management since the early 20th century, and has the potential to reduce rangeland carrying capacities of wild and domestic grazers through the displacement of herbaceous forage by trees and shrubs.

Our findings corroborate these earlier findings because herbaceous forage species Eragrostis superba, Eragrostis ciliaris, Sporobolus stapfianus and Sporobolus pyrimidalis were in close proximity to the piosphere.

From remote-sensing-based biomass estimates in June 2014, these authors calculated an average offer of dry herbaceous forage mass of 424 to 1053 kg/ha per herd, with a median of 611 (Altmann et al. 2016).

The average weight (kg/ha) of herbaceous biomass (both dry matter and wet weight) was multiplied by the total land area (ha) of respective land cover types to obtain the relative regional quantity of herbaceous forage by land cover type and season.

Burning coniferous forest stands reduced woody biomass, and increased herbaceous forage from 146 to 790 kg/ha.

Management goals in "espinal" include increasing woody cover, particularly of the dominant tree Acacia caven, improving herbaceous forage quality, and increasing soil fertility.

Three herbaceous crops, forage maize (Zea mays, cv. Ronaldino), fibre hemp (Cannabis sativa, cv. Uso) and faba bean (Vicia faba, cv. Aurora) were harvested from plots in Southern Finland in September 2008, and the same cultivar of hemp was also used in 2009.

Use indicators that were assessed included trampling intensity and grazing intensity of both herbaceous and browse forage species.

A negative and positive effect of gradient distance was also observed on different herbaceous and woody forage species leading to the identification of both increaser and decreaser species around the piospheres.

Similarly, cattle herbivory can affect sustainability of herbaceous and woody forages (Fleischner 1994; Vavra 2005).

This study in Karamoja pastoral sub-region of Uganda identified herbaceous and woody forage species in different grazing land cover types, quantified forage in different grazing land covers, analyzed long-term land use/cover change (from 1986 to 2013) and determined the relationship between Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and herbaceous biomass.