Rangeland Ecology And Management [Paperback]

Over the last two decades the science of range management, like many other resource disciplines, has embraced and integrated environmental concerns in the field, the laboratory, and policy. Rangeland Ecology and Management now brings this integrated approach to the classroom in a thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and readable text. The authors discuss the basics of rangeland management?including grazing and practical management of animals and vegetation?and place those basics within the context of decision making for damaged land, riparian and water conservation, multiple use, and modeling. Concepts such as succession, stability, and range condition are examined and their effects discussed. Fire is considered as an environmental factor. Appendixes provide scientific and common names of range plants and animals. These and many other issues crucial to the understanding of successful range management combine to make the finest text for upper-level undergraduates now available.Preface, PART ONE GRAZING ECOLOGY, Rangeland Conservation, Rangeland Defined, Range Management Defined, The Rangeland Ecosystem, The Grazing Factors, Literature Cited, Defoliation, Coevolution of Plants and Animals, Definitions, Determining Effects of Defoliation, Effects of Defoliation on Plant Morphology, Literature Cited, Physiological Effects of Defoliation, The Cycle of Nonstructural Carbohydrates, TNC Production and Plant Growth, Stimulation by Clipping, Defoliation and Competition, Defoliation and Overgrazing, Other Nutritive Components, Yield and Vigor Effects of Defoliation During Growth, Defoliation Effects After Plant Maturity, Evaluation of Defoliation Practices, Literature Cited, Palatability, Preference, and Selective Defoliation, Expressions of Selectivity, Methods of Studying Selectivity, Palatability Factors, Preference Factors, Vegetational Responses to Selective Grazing, Literature Cited, Physical Effects of Grazing Animals, Animal Movements, Direct Effects on Plants, Cryptoló–