Sentences with phrase «large grazing»

For example, in the Arctic, where about 500 gigatons of carbon is stored in permafrost, large grazing mammals like caribou and muskoxen can help maintain the grasslands that have a high albedo and thus reflect more solar energy.

Driven by the imperative to adapt within a generation to «whiplash» climate changes where only grass did well for a while, our ancestors learned to cooperate and innovate in hunting large grazing animals.

The survival skills of being able to regularly eat large grazing animals?

What is the role of large grazing animals in maintaining a healthy mosaic of forest and grasslands?

He added: «Our research has the potential to improve the way we manage conflicts between wildlife conservation and agricultural activities — not just involving large grazing bird species — but perhaps lions which prey on livestock in rural Africa, or hen harriers feeding on economically valuable grouse in the UK.»

This has led to widespread conflicts between those who want to protect large grazing birds and those invested in farming.

In recent decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large grazing birds — such as geese and cranes — across Europe.

Experts believe their analysis of conflicts involving large grazing birds — such as geese and cranes — across Europe could have a positive impact across the globe.

The research, Time series analysis reveals synchrony and asynchrony between conflict management effort and increasing large grazing bird populations in northern Europe, was funded by the European Research Council's Horizon 2020 programme and is published in Conservation Letters.

Without large grazing herbivores to eat them, acacia trees suffer because of a shift in the ant populations they house

Not exact matches

Six English Large Black sows and one Large White boar are also rotationally grazed.

CBRE Agribusiness has been appointed to sell a large scale cropping and grazing property located along the Cairn Curran Reservoir.

Australia is the country with the largest organic agricultural area (17.2 million hectares, with 97 % of that area used as grazing), followed by Argentina (3.2 million hectares) and the United States of America (2.2 million hectares).

Go Grazing: No matter how small or large your entertaining space, spreading out your feast inspires guests to graze and socialize beyond the confines of your kitchen.

«The largest agricultural land use is grazing of native vegetation at 45pc with 90pc occurring on leasehold land.

In that deal the market had expected Stanbroke to sell for as much as $ 550 million but a consortium comprising Hungry Jack's founder Jack Cowin, Swan Hill's Menegazzo family and four Queensland grazing families snared the company for $ 490 million, in what was and still is the largest cattle station transaction in Australia's history.

A large herd of buffalo, perhaps a hundred animals, grazes in a tight formation near the river.

A dessert bar of small items lets everyone graze and gets you off the job of slicing and serving a tart or similar large dessert.

Some children prefer smaller meals — «grazing» — to large meals.

The zonal chairman affirmed that a larger percentage of Fulani herdsmen were unaware that their traditional method of rearing cattle had been proscribed by the anti-open grazing law, threatening that any attempt to impound their cattle would spark a crisis in the state.

Octopus Ventures, now one of Europe's largest venture capital teams, provided Series A funding in 2009, and Graze now has 500 employees and is expanding into the US.

«Agricultural land is being abandoned on a large scale in Europe, and natural grazing is one of the key processes for preserving biodiversity,» says Goderie.

Previous research has shown that glades are the preferred grazing sites of many large African mammals.

Sheep have grazed the Mongolian steppe for centuries (left), but as more land becomes degraded, shepherds are forced to abandon their traditions and move their gers to an ever - larger slum on Ulaanbaatar's outskirts (right).

Zebras walk an unmarked route that takes them to the next best place for grazing, while overhead thundering cloudbursts of late October rains drive new plant growth, filling pockmarks across this largest inland delta in the world.

In the Northern Rockies, gray wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park, a large protected area where neither cattle grazing nor big game hunting are allowed.

Founded 19 years ago, it's a grand experiment to test whether large herbivores — elk, moose, reindeer, horses, and bison — can, by grazing, bring back a grass - dominated ecosystem called the mammoth steppe.

While visiting a ranch in South Africa, it came together for him: He noticed a corner of a paddock where a large number of sheep had grazed for a short while.

This could likely have implications for the zooplankton that usually graze on larger diatoms and in turn the fish that eat those zooplankton.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

One case in Rothschild's museum houses a ponderous mix of hoofed grazing mammals, among them small, swamp - dwelling African bushbuck (left, seated on shelf and floor), a large dark - brown fruit - eating Indian nilgai (center, seated), a four - horned antelope (center, standing), as well as bison and buffalo heads.

«There may be a large fraction of grazing that is being done by mixotrophs, so it's potentially very significant in terms of the flow of carbon in the ocean and it should be quantified.»

The leaf - tailed gecko is a large, nocturnal gecko from Madagascar threatened with extensive habitat loss from cattle grazing, logging, agriculture and collection for the pet trade.

Luis Marone of the Argentine Arid Zones Research Institute (IADIZA - CONICET) and his colleagues collected soil samples at grazed and ungrazed sites in Argentina's Monte Desert to assess the composition of the seed bank in each area, finding fewer of the large grass seeds that birds prefer in the grazed areas.

Even though there is no evidence that large herbivores ever grazed in isolated Ireland, the Irish pollen profile from oak and hazel is essentially the same as the rest of Europe's.

Boal said landowners are interested in reducing juniper because it degrades the quality of land for cattle grazing and also uses a large amount of water.

Among the undiluted binaries, we note that Brown only mentions grazing binaries as a principal source of false positives; however, as can be seen in Table 2, eclipses among stellar components with large area or surface - brightness ratio (SB1 in Table 2) are the cause of a significant fraction of false positives.

In the distance, a large herd of cows is grazing.

Among the undiluted binaries, planet - like eclipses may be caused by grazing EBs and the (central) eclipses of two stellar components with large ratios in area or surface brightness, typically due to a large mass ratio.

Konza Prairie scientists pioneered the use of long - term, large - scale fire and grazing experiments to understand the ecological effects of fire and grazing in grasslands.

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Not only do arctic grasslands support higher biodiversity and abundance, there is building evidence that the grazing, compaction and disturbance effects of these larger herbivores enables the deeper freezing of the permafrost during the winter months.

However, introduced Reindeer used to graze large regions, and Norway rats and house mice, also introduced, have until recently preyed on birds, insects and eaten vegetation.

Around 200 million years ago, large plant - eating dinosaurs grazed the Earth alongside primitive meat - eaters as large as ostriches.

Large herds of grazing animals evolved to roam around natural grasslands, eating the grasses and being chased by large predaLarge herds of grazing animals evolved to roam around natural grasslands, eating the grasses and being chased by large predalarge predators.

That is, grazing on small snacks throughout the course of the day (under - eating phase), followed by a large «feast» in the evening (over-eating phase).

Light, ongoing grazing and a single, larger meal is actually more representative of the makeup of historical meal timing.

In naturally occurring conditions, buffalo grazed in western Kansas but not in eastern Kansas where the yields of prairie grasses were larger per acre.

Even the butter oil used in these capsules is extracted from milk that is produced by Devon and Guernsey cows that are known to graze only on green grasses and provide milk that contains large amounts of butterfat.

The quality of the raw milk also affects its price, with raw milk from exclusively grazing cows costing more than raw milk from cows that receive a large amount of supplemental feed.