Sentence examples for managed grassland model from inspiring English sources

Using the ORCHIDEE-GM v2.2 managed grassland model, increase in grassland production was simulated in response to future global change over Europe, which is mainly due to the effect of rising CO2 concentration.

Here we applied ORCHIDEE-GM v2.2, a grid-based model for managed grassland, over European grassland to estimate the impacts of future global change.

However, most of the existing grid-based process-based ecosystem models currently simulate managed grassland either as natural grassland or as a sort of cropland with intensive harvest.

Regional mean biogenic potential productivity (Y pot ), grazing capacity (C grazing ), optimal livestock density (D opt ), and NPP of managed grassland (NPP managed ) are averaged based on the managed grassland area in each grid cell.

The measurement campaign was held on an intensively managed grassland on peat soil in the Netherlands.

The mound building ant Lasius flavus can sustain many large colonies in extensively managed grassland ecosystems.

Ants are important ecosystem engineers and can be abundant in extensively managed grassland ecosystems.

Canada also reported 45.1 Mha of cropland (16.1% of total managed land area) across 10 provinces and 6.6 Mha of managed grassland (2.4%) in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

Here, wet soil condition is defined in the model by daily mean soil moisture content (mc) of topsoil (0 9 cm in this study) being close to saturation: ORCHIDEE-GM simulates the two practices through which managed grassland provides grass biomass for livestock: mowing and grazing.

The effect of landscape dynamics on carabid communities was investigated using a chronosequence of managed grassland sites.

The third experiment is like E control but with constant livestock density over managed grassland as in the year 2010 (thus keeping the same livestock numbers over European grasslands; hereafter referred to as E fixD ).