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Permaculture: Weeds or Wild Nature
Revegetation with perennial and in particular woody vegetation has been an almost universal element in the response to rural land degradation. ... resources are being used to destroy healthy existing vegetation. The considerable ecological and other values of this non-indigenous vegetation are not considered while the adverse impacts of ...
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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
Marshes may be either fresh water or saltwater and tidal or non-tidal. megawatt - A ... restrict their use by future generations. swamp - A type of wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation and does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits. Swamps may be fresh water or saltwater and ...
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Rangeland
Sensing Data) 1.2.2.5.3 Shrub and Brush Rangeland: Those ecosystems dominated by woody vegetation, typically in arid and semiarid regions. In the east, these systems are former croplands and ...
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Wetland
Forested Wetland: Those wetland ecosystems that are dominated by woody vegetation. This includes season- swamps, shrub swamps, and wooded swamps including those around bogs. (Definition ... 2.9.2 Nonforested Wetland: Those wetland ecosystems that are dominated by wetland herbaceous vegetation or are nonvegetated. This includes non-tidal fresh, brackish, and salt marshes, nonvegetated flats, ...
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USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Research Showcase: Evaluation of Forested Wetlands Constructed for Mitigation in Comparison to Natural Systems
All plants within the quadrats were identified in August and percent ground cover ... grasses and herbs. Figure 3: Grass was the dominant plant cover at all sites. Woody vegetation comprised less than five percent. Numerous mammals and amphibians were caught on both constructed ...
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Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory : Conservation : Shortgrass BCR
Where moisture and soil conditions are suitable, forbs, succulents, and low woody vegetation may also be present. ... Trees were uncommon features of the shortgrass prairie before European settlement. The development of woody vegetation along waterways has been facilitated by alteration of natural river flow regimes through ...
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AUCKLAND ISLAND GOATS
Grey Duck Creek. Therefore we see no merit in exterminating the population as there are many signs that the vegetation ... . Campbell, D. J., and Rudge, M. R., 1984. Vegetation changes induced over ten years by goats and ... Auckland Islands (New Zealand subantactic) in relation to vegetation changes induced by man. New Zealand Journal of Botany, ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland 1.7. Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level 1.8. Subtropical/Tropical Swamp 1. ... Mariculture Cages 15.13. Artificial/Marine - Mari/Brackishculture Ponds 16. Introduced vegetation 17. Other 18. Unknown Major Threat Types (help) All 0. ... 1.3.3.3. Clear-cutting 1.3.4. Non-woody vegetation collection 1.3.5. Coral removal 1.3.6. Groundwater ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Threat Types Classification Scheme (Version 2.1)
Selective logging 1.3.3.3. Clear-cutting 1.3.4. Non-woody vegetation collection 1.3.5. Coral removal 1.3.6. Groundwater extraction 1.3.7. Other ...
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Range Expansion of woody plants on the Colorado Plateau
Numerous ecological studies across the Southwest have documented the decline in herbaceous vegetation (grasses and non-woody flowering plants) while forests thicken and brush invades. Documenting the ... use history, primarily livestock grazing and fire suppression. Resources: Archer, S. 1994. Woody plant encroachment into southwestern grasslands and savannas: rates, patterns and proximate causes. Pp ...
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