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  • The estimation of herbage yields under fire and grazing treatments in the Mountain Zebra National Park.

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    De Klerk, J
    Brown, LR
    Bezuidenhout, H
    Castley, G
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Castley, Guy G.
    Year published
    2001
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    Abstract
    The application of fire as a management tool is often used to change the species composition of the vegetation and its cover to maintain plant communities in a specific successional stage. This study investigates the influence of two fire treatments (a head and a back fire) on the plateau grassland communities in the Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP). The production of herbage yield on grazed areas and areas protected from grazing which were subjected to two fire treatments, were compared with that of an unburnt control area subjected to grazing in the same homogenous grassland over two growing seasons. No differences were ...
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    The application of fire as a management tool is often used to change the species composition of the vegetation and its cover to maintain plant communities in a specific successional stage. This study investigates the influence of two fire treatments (a head and a back fire) on the plateau grassland communities in the Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP). The production of herbage yield on grazed areas and areas protected from grazing which were subjected to two fire treatments, were compared with that of an unburnt control area subjected to grazing in the same homogenous grassland over two growing seasons. No differences were found in herbage production between the two fire treatment areas. After the burn the grazing exclosures achieved the same herbage yield as the control area within two growing seasons. In comparison, the grazed areas could after the burn only achieve a herbage yield equal to 55.7 of that of the control area. The results indicate that fire stimulates active vegetation growth on the plateau grasslands in MZNP leading to a higher production rate and better utilisation by game.
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    Journal Title
    Koedoe
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v44i1.181
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2001. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    PRE2009-Conservation and Biodiversity
    PRE2009-Terrestrial Ecology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/60656
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