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Grazing management : science into practice
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ISBN: 0582450101 0470216441 9780582450103 Year: 1990 Publisher: Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England : New York : Longman Scientific & Technical ; Wiley,

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Large-scale Livestock Grazing : A Management Tool for Nature Conservation
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ISBN: 3540864377 3540686665 3642428932 3540686673 9786612833847 1282833847 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).The development of these landscapes during the past decades has been characterized by an ongoing intensification of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures becoming fallow as a result of changing economic conditions on the other hand. Since species adapted to open and semi-open landscapes contribute to biodiversity in Europe in a major way, this development is of great concern to nature conservation. In several countries largescale, nature-adapted pastoral systems have been recognized as one solution to this problem. These systems could offer an alternative to industrial livestock raising and keep a high biodiversity on the landscape level. Against the background of livestock diseases such as BSE and Foot and Mouth Disease and the efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU by changing the criteria for agricultural subsidies, these concepts gain particular significance.They could also represent an alternative to the established, costly habitat management tools.

A plague of sheep : environmental consequences of the conquest of Mexico
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ISBN: 052142061X 052157448X 1139930206 1139927256 1139931717 1139933701 113993922X 1139929488 0511571097 1139936905 9780521420617 9780511571091 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion. The book spells out in detail the environmental changes associated with the introduction of Old World grazing animals into New World ecosystems, demonstrates how these changes enabled the Spanish takeover of land, and explains how environmental changes shaped the colonial societies.

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Sheep --- Animal introduction --- Grazing --- Pastoral systems --- Human ecology --- Indians of Mexico --- Ecology --- History --- Environmental aspects --- Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo, Mexico) --- Mexico --- Environmental conditions --- -Grazing --- -Pastoral systems --- -Sheep --- -Animal introductions --- Animal translocation --- Animal translocations --- Exotic animal introduction --- Introduction of animals --- Introductions of animals --- Translocation of animals --- Translocations of animals --- Acclimatization --- Zoology, Economic --- Pest introduction --- Domestic sheep --- Ovis aries --- Red sheep --- Ovis --- Shepherds --- Wool --- Herding systems --- Pastoralism --- Animal culture --- Livestock systems --- Herding --- Animal feeding --- Range management --- Rangelands --- -Valle del Mezquital (Hidalgo, Mexico) --- -Environmental conditions --- -Human ecology --- -Indians of Mexico --- -Domestic sheep --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Animal introductions --- -History --- -Environmental aspects --- -Ecology --- -Ethnology --- Social aspects --- Meksiko --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- Meksyk --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Meḳsiḳe --- Mexique (Country) --- Messico --- Méjico --- República Mexicana --- United States of Mexico --- United Mexican States --- Anáhuac --- メキシコ --- Mekishiko --- מקסיקו --- Livestock --- Herders --- Ethnology --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Agricultural systems --- Pastures --- Zoogeography --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Valle del Mezquital (Hidalgo, Mexico) --- History. --- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 --- 16th century --- Conquest, 1519-1540 --- Sheep - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - Ecology - History - 16th century. --- Animal introduction - Environmental aspects - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century. --- Grazing - Environmental aspects - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century. --- Pastoral systems - Environmental aspects - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century. --- Human ecology - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century. --- Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century. --- Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo, Mexico) - Environmental conditions - History. --- Mexico - History - Conquest, 1519-1540. --- History of Mexico --- anno 1500-1599 --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Sheep - Ecology - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century --- Animal introduction - Environmental aspects - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century --- Grazing - Environmental aspects - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century --- Pastoral systems - Environmental aspects - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century --- Human ecology - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century --- Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo) - History - 16th century --- Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo, Mexico) - Environmental conditions - History --- Mexico - History - Conquest, 1519-1540 --- Mexico - History - Spanish colony, 1540-1810

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