Sentence examples for severe grazing from inspiring English sources

Moreover, grazing intensity of each plot was conventionally estimated and coded as (1) slight grazing; (2) medium grazing; and (3) severe grazing.

Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea Nutt). is a native perennial bunchgrass with limited forage value that dominates sites with disturbed soils and persists with repeated severe grazing.

On stage five they began after 30 minutes when he crashed again and television pictures showed him with severe grazing to the right thigh and a cut knee.

Severe grazing isn't necessarily bad provided you give plants a lot of time to recover, and they will need a lot of time to recover, at least in comparison to plants that weren't severely grazed.

E. tenuifolia is an increaser species and was therefore most abundant in areas of severe grazing while C. dactylon has been known to be tolerant to grazing.

Eragrostis spp., for instance, are increaser species, increasing in abundance where there is severe grazing that leads to range degradation (Du Toit 2009).

"The BLM must not wait to act to protect the desert tortoise," nine environmental and wildlife groups wrote in their letter, which cited a recent study showing how livestock grazing causes severe declines in tortoise populations.

Soil phosphate and potassium concentrations influenced herbivory: vertebrate grazing had less effect on transplant biomass and seed production at sites with high phosphate – low potassium soils, but the effects of grazing were more severe in low phosphate – high potassium soils.

The researchers found that the impacts of deer grazing on vegetation were severe and resulted in bare soil and reduced plant biomass, less recruitment of woody species and relatively fewer native species.

Thus, grazing impacts were most severe during droughts when fires would have been most likely, and when they had previously been common effectively ensuring that fires ceased in grazed grassland sites.

Recently, during a trace element deficiency study in Norway, some lambs grazing on I. ricinus infested pastures had both a severe neutropenia (<0.7 × 109 cells/l) and increased serum folate values up to 901.2 nmol/l (Kleppa, unpublished result).