The NW German Heathland: A Threatened Landscape? by Norbert Fischer, Hansjörg Küster

“…In the early modern period, extensive areas of heathland were created in north-west Germany, mainly through deforestation and subsequent grazing. This meant that the people living here had to practise a special shortage or wasteland economy. …”
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Beef, hay, and non-nomadic pastoralism by Sabine Chabrat, Baritaux Virginie, Marie Houdart

“…Pastoralism has outgrown the basic perception as simply a mode of livestock farming based on pasture grazing to now embody strong values rooted in community identity and community governance. …”
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Wartime Volatility in Coastal Flanders: The Roosewalle Case by Sander Berghmans

“…Instead, the farm adopted a strategy of expanding its activities, significantly increasing its sheep flocks and grazing lands to profit from the war in a low-risk manner. …”
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EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT SIMULATION OF A TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ELASTIC COLLISION VIBRATION SYSTEM WITH GAPS by ZHU Xifeng, FU Wenbin, MA Shuo, ZHENG Dong

“…A two-degree-of-freedom collision system with gap and elastic constraint was used as the research object, and the regional distribution and transitions of the periodic motion of the system under low frequency conditions were studied by numerical simulation.It was obtained that with the decrease of excitation frequency, the <italic>p</italic>/1 periodic motion occurs with grazing bifurcation transitions to （<italic>p</italic>+1）/1 periodic motion.When the number of collisions was large enough, the Chattering-impact characteristics were presented.Then a circuit model that was completely equivalent to the collision system was established and simulation experiments were carried out.The results show that the results generated by establishing the equivalent circuit are consistent with those generated by numerical simulations, and the equivalent circuit is more efficient in simulation experiments, which can realize fast modal transitions and parameter adjustments，making it more convenient and providing a research method for the study of nonlinear dynamics.…”
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Management and sustainability of ground-mounted solar parks requires consideration of vegetation succession as an omnipresent process by Markus Zaplata

“…Instead of relying exclusively on labour-intensive and costly mowing, managers can make use of grazing animals. In this way, simply anticipating the ecological succession process and taking it into account when planning and managing a solar park can boost overall sustainability. …”
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Analysis on dynamics and load sharing characteristics of herringbone tooth planetary gear system by JIN ZhongWen

“…With the increase of meshing frequency, the dynamic meshing force and load sharing coefficient of the system increase, and there are Hopf bifurcation, the real-grazing bifurcation and periodic doubling bifurcation in the process of periodic vibration mutual transition.…”
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TEORETHICAL EVALUATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC RISKS IN TAZLAU RIVER BASIN by LUMINITA BIBIRE, MIHAELA-BEATRICE BARBIERU, NARCIS BARSAN, ADRIAN STELIAN GHENADI

“…Many areas have almost totally been deforested, the grazing and agriculture have extensively and irrational been practiced, underground reserves have been exploited, too etc. …”
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Causes and Effects of Land Degradation in Karangazi Sector, Nyagatare District Rwanda. by Fred, Mujyambere

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Variability of plankton communities in relation to the lunar cycle in oceanic waters by Santiago Hernández-León, M. Loreto Torreblanca, M. Loreto Torreblanca, Inma Herrera, Inma Herrera, Laia Armengol, Gara Franchy, Alejandro Ariza, Juan Carlos Garijo, María Couret

“…Chlorophyll, nanoplankton, diatoms, and mesozooplankton proxies for grazing (GF), respiration (ETS), and growth (AARS) varied monthly denoting a lunar pattern. …”
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Influence of land cover change on atmospheric organic gases, aerosols, and radiative effects by R. Vella, R. Vella, M. Forrest, A. Pozzer, A. Pozzer, A. P. Tsimpidi, T. Hickler, T. Hickler, J. Lelieveld, J. Lelieveld, H. Tost

“…Two scenarios were evaluated: (1) one comparing present-day land cover, which includes areas deforested for crops and grazing land, with potential natural vegetation (PNV) cover simulated by the model, and (2) an extreme reforestation scenario in which present-day grazing land is restored to natural vegetation levels. …”
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Proprietà collettive e sviluppo locale. Elementi di ricerca per il Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italia) by Maurizio Daici

“…With this opinion, in 1927, the legislator mainly acted to get the agricultural properties free from common uses (grazing, gathering wood, etc.) and to reduce the extensions of the properties opened to a shared utilisation, by putting them at the same time under the authority of the municipalities. …”
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A Preliminary Survey of Mycotoxins Identified from Florida Bahiagrass Pastures by Hui-Ling Liao, Ko-Hsuan Chen, Florencia Marcon, Robert (Robbie) Jones, Brittany Justesen, Joseph Walter, Ann Blount, Cheryl Mackowiak, Doug Mayo, Marcelo Wallau

“… The beef cattle ranchers in Florida reported some health issues related to cattle grazing on warm-season grass pastures, such as bahiagrass and bermudagrass. …”
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Common Property and Local Development. Research Elements for Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) by Maurizio Daici

“…With this opinion, in 1927, the legislator mainly acted to get the agricultural properties free from common uses (grazing, gathering wood, etc.) and to reduce the extensions of the properties opened to a shared utilisation, by putting them at the same time under the authority of the municipalities. …”
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Influence des pressions anthropiques sur la structure des populations de Pentadesma butyracea au Bénin by Aliou Dicko, Samadori Sorotori Honoré Biaou, Armand Kuyema Natta, Choukouratou Aboudou Salami Gado, M’Mouyohoum Kouagou

“…Three groups were discriminated : Group 1 (populations of Penessoulou and Kandi), characterized by a pressure from wild vegetation fires and agricultural activities ; Group 2 (populations of Manigri and Ségbana), characterized by illegal selective logging, abusive barking of P. butyracea, animal grazing ; and Group 3 (populations of Natitingou, Toucountouna and Tchaourou), characterized by excessive seeds collection and sand removal from the stream by humans. …”
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Forage Grasses for Florida's Organic Soils by Joao Vendramini, Philipe Moriel, Lindsey Wiggins

“…In the past, the combination of potentially high forage yields on the fertile organic soils and the long grazing season were the basis for one of the highest concentrations of beef cattle and a viable beef cattle industry in Florida. …”
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Bœufs gaulois et bœufs français : morphologies animales et dynamiques économiques au cours de La Tène et des périodes historiques by Colin Duval, Benoît Clavel

“…From the first decrease in livestock size as a consequence of domestication, to growth between the Iron Age and the Roman period, and small individuals during the Middle Ages to the heavy Charolais breeds currently grazing in our pastures, this study aims to link cattle morphology and economic variations in order to improve our vision of French pastoral history, based on archaeozoological remains. …”
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Building resilient cattle through better management of buffalo health by Alfredo Sánchez, Merilio Montero

“…However, for it to work, it is necessary to generate a deep knowledge of the animal species, the ecosystem, and the ecological principles of grazing, Capacities that producers must develop. …”
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Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields by A. Marais, M. Hardy, M. Booyse, A. Botha

“…Agricultural management practices such as fertiliser and pesticide addition, crop rotation, and grazing animals can lead to different microbial communities in the associated agricultural soils. …”
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Non-genetic factors affecting the meat quality and flavor of Inner Mongolian lambs: A review by Yuning Liu, Runhang Li, Ying Ying, Yandong Zhang, Yiying Huang, Hongxin Wu, Kejian Lin

“…In this review, we cover the contributions made by scientists to explore and improve the quality and flavor of Inner Mongolia lambs through non-genetic means, compare the differences between grazing and drylot-feeding in detail, and summarize some feed additives. …”
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Attitudes of livestock farmers and sensitivity of livestock farming systems to drought conditions in the French Alps by Baptiste Nettier, Laurent Dobremez, Jean-Luc Coussy, Thomas Romagny

“…One solution is to purchase fodder to compensate for the decrease in the harvests that normally provide animal feed in the winter; the amounts purchased vary with the length of wintering required. For the grazing periods, the high mountain livestock breeders and the dairy systems of the Northern Alps rely above all on extending and over-sizing the pasture areas in relation to the needs of the herds. …”
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