Using an illustrative model, we show that transitions between grassland and woodland may result from the interplay of facilitation and competition between herbivores.
These results represent strong evidence of increased seed mass in the vegetation of north-facing grasslands, when compared to their south-facing counterparts.
This board would be the precursor to the local advisory boards that would later play a key role in managing the public grasslands.
They might be nomads living off animals in the grasslands, mountain peoples practicing swidden agriculture, or fishermen and hunters in forest and maritime environments.
This composition reflects grassland conditions with scattered shrubs.
Extensively managed grasslands could prove crucial in catchment management to effectively lock up nutrients trapped from adjacent areas of intensively fertilized crops and pastures.
At all times, the land was managed by the farmer as grazed grassland.
As a reference work, the book will be a useful research tool for agronomists, soil scientists and environmental scientists interested in temperate, managed grasslands.
