Rotational grazing on rangelands: an assessment of the experimental evidence

摘要：

Comparisons of continuous,season‐long grazing and rotational grazing have been conducted in numerous rangeland ecosystems world wide over the past 60 years.The preponderance of evidence generated from these experiments has consistently indicated that rotational grazing is not superior to continuous grazing on rangelands in terms of plant and animal production ( Heady 1961,Briske et al., 2008).However,rotational grazing continues to be promoted and implemented as a superior grazing system.The specific objectives of this synthesis were to summarize plant and animal production responses to rotational and continuous grazing and attempt to reconcile these contradictory perspectives.

关键词： continuous grazing domestic herbivores grazing management grazing systems

作者: J.D Derner D.D.Briske J.R.Brown S.D.Fuhlendorf K.M.Havstad R.L.Gillen A.J.Ash W.D.Willms

作者单位: USDA-ARS,Cheyenne,WY,USA 82009 Texas A & M University,College Station,TX,USA 77843 USDA-NRCS,Las Cruces,NM,USA 88003 Oklahoma State University,Stillwater,OK,USA 74078 USDA-ARS Las Cruces,NM,USA 88003 Kansas State University,Hays,KS,USA 67601 CSIRO,Sustainable Ecosystems,St.Lucia,Qld 4067,Australia Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,Lethbridge,Alberta,Canada T1 J 4B1

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）