Rangeland Ecology & Management

About this book

Reprint of a 1999 book.

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. Appendices 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.

Contents

PART ONE GRAZING ECOLOGY
1 Rangeland Conservation
2 Defoliation
3 Physiological Effects of Defoliation
4 Palatability, Preference, and Selective Defoliation
5 Physical Effects of Grazing Animals
6 Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling
7 Redistribution of Minerals by Plants and Animals
8 Distribution of Plants by Animals
9 Fire as an Environmental Factor
10 Rangeland Synecology

PART TWO GRAZING MANAGEMENT
11 Numbers of Animals
12 Utilization of Forage
13 Animal Distribution
14 Mixed Species Grazing
15 Mixed Species Management
16 Seasonal Management
17 Grazing Plans
18 Responses to Seasonal Grazing Plans

PART THREE VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
19 Modification of Vegetation
20 Mechanical Control of Rangeland Plants
21 Chemical Control of Rangeland Plants
22 Prescribed Fire in Rangeland Management
23 Biological Control
24 Seeding of Rangelands
25 Rangeland Fertilization
26 Soil and Water Conservation

PART FOUR MANAGING RANGELAND COMPLEXITY
27 Reclamation of Damaged Rangeland
28 Riparian Areas and Pollution: Best Management Practices
29 Multiple-Use
30 Planning for Rangeland Management
31 Decision Support Systems

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