Various traditional management techniques were employed, such as the regular burning of portions of grassland to help regenerate new grass growth.
Changes in soil fungal:bacterial biomass ratios following reductions in the intensity of management of an upland grassland.
It considers how plants within grasslands respond to and are adapted to grazing animals.
Access to the public grasslands under the act is based on grazing permits.
While the increases in seedbank-size are encouraging, they suggest that the grasslands have some way to go before they can be considered productive.
The higher spring growth outside the enclosure might be the result of mild grazing, which stimulates growth in grasslands (as widely documented in the literature).
We expect that over time these agroecosystems would remain with less biotic diversity (genetic, species and patch) than natural grassland ecosystems.
As a reference work, the book will be a useful research tool for agronomists, soil scientists and environmental scientists interested in temperate, managed grasslands.
