Claim · model-written summary
Medium grazing yielded 90% as much above-ground dry matter as light grazing.
- Taxon
- meadow bromegrasse1
- Treatment
- medium grazing intensitiese0
- Outcome
- above ground dry mattere0
- Direction
- as muche0
- Value
- 90%e0
- Comparator
- light intensitye0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Heavy and medium grazing intensities produced 83 and 90% as much above ground dry matter and 87 and 90% above ground carbon as the light intensity.”
t0“Grazing intensity impacts on pasture carbon and nitrogen flow”
e1“Paddocks of meadow bromegrass (Bromus riparius Rhem.), replicated 4 times, were subjected to heavy, medium and light grazing intensities.”
Title
Grazing intensity impacts on pasture carbon and nitrogen flow
V. S. Baron; E. Mapfumo; A. C. Dick; et al. Journal of Range Management 2002. doi:10.2458/azu_jrm_v55i6_baron
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Association Increasing grazing intensity tended to increase forage nitrogen concentration.
- Association Increasing grazing intensity tended to decrease forage fiber concentration.
- Intervention effect Heavy grazing yielded 83% as much above-ground dry matter as light grazing.
- Intervention effect Heavy grazing yielded 87% as much above-ground carbon as light grazing.
- Intervention effect Medium grazing yielded 90% as much above-ground carbon as light grazing.
- Observation Disappearance pools were similar across grazing intensities except for digestible organic matter.
- Intervention effect Heavy grazing produced 116% of the light-grazing disappearance pool of digestible organic matter.
- Intervention effect Under heavy grazing, residual vegetative dry matter was 41% of that under light grazing.
- Intervention effect Under heavy grazing, residual digestible organic matter was 50% of that under light grazing.
- Intervention effect Under heavy grazing, residual carbon was 36% of that under light grazing.
- Intervention effect Under heavy grazing, residual nitrogen was 52% of that under light grazing.
- Observation Including fecal carbon significantly increased total residual carbon.
- Observation Estimated fecal carbon supplied 68% of litter carbon inputs under heavy grazing.
- Observation Estimated fecal carbon supplied 51% of litter carbon inputs under medium grazing.
- Observation Estimated fecal carbon supplied 42% of litter carbon inputs under light grazing.
- Observation Grazing intensity did not affect estimated excreted nitrogen pools.
- Association Grazing intensity increased the estimated percentage of nitrogen excreted as urine.