Riparian Meadow Response to Modern Conservation Grazing Management.

ABSTRACT: Riparian meadows occupy a small proportion of the public lands in the western United States but they provide numerous ecosystem services, including the production of high-quality forage for livestock grazing. Modern conservation management strategies (e.g., reductions in livestock stocking rates and adoption of new riparian grazing standards) have been implemented to better balance riparian conservation and livestock production objectives on publicly managed lands. We examined potential relationships between long-term changes in plant community, livestock grazing pressure and environmental conditions at two spatial scales in meadows grazed under conservation management strategies. Changes in plant community were not associated with either livestock stocking rate or precipitation at the gra

SUBMITTER: Oles KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544782 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature