Soil and understory plant dynamics during conversion of forest to silvopasture, open pasture, and woodlot
| Autor: | Richard G. Smith, Heidi Asbjornsen, Daniel L. Kelting, John E. Carroll, Joseph Orefice |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category Forestry Plant community 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Understory 010501 environmental sciences Biology 01 natural sciences Pasture Woodlot Agronomy Grazing 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Silvopasture Species richness Agronomy and Crop Science 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Woody plant |
| Zdroj: | Agroforestry Systems. 91:729-739 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9680 0167-4366 |
| Popis: | Little is known regarding the impact of converting northern hardwood forests to pasture or silvopasture. Our objective was to investigate how understory plant communities and soil physical and chemical properties respond during the first 2 years following conversion of northern hardwood forest to pasture. To accomplish this, we established three forest conversion treatments (silvopasture, open pasture, and woodlot) in a 50 year old northern hardwood forest in New York. The silvopasture and open pasture treatments were seeded with forages and then grazed with cattle after the initial timber harvest. Understory plant inventories and soil sampling were conducted pre-treatment and 2 years after treatment establishment. Understory non-woody plant species richness increased in all treatments during the two year period (F = 73.633, P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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