MAIN THREATS AFFECTING ARNICA MONTANA L. IN THE NORTHEASTERN REGION OF ROMANIAN CARPATHIANS by Constantin MARDARI, Ciprian Constantin BÎRSAN, Camelia Paula ŞTEFANACHE, Cătălin TĂNASE

“…The most suitable method of maintaining habitats in a favorable state of conservation could be represented by a combination of mowing and moderate intensity grazing while maintaining a level of fertilization as low as possible. …”
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Betula pendula Roth. survival and growth in treeline is affected by genotype and environment by Kari Saikkonen, Otto Saikkonen, Marjo Helander, Irma Saloniemi

“…They were fenced to prevent vertebrate grazing, which is known to be among the most important factors limiting the expansion and regeneration of forests in European treeline ecotones. …”
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Soil Hydrological Attributes of an Integrated Crop-Livestock Agroecosystem: Increased Adaptation through Resistance to Soil Change by Mark A. Liebig, Don L. Tanaka, Scott L. Kronberg, Eric J. Scholljegerdes, Jim F. Karn

“…Imposed treatments had no effect on infiltration rate at three, six, and nine years after study establishment, implying that agricultural producers should not be concerned with inhibited infiltration in integrated annual cropping systems, where winter grazing is used. The use of no-till management, coupled with annual freeze/thaw and wet/dry cycles, likely conferred an inherent resistance to change in near-surface soil properties affecting soil hydrological attributes. …”
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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Livelihoods in Rujumbura Rukungiri District. by Niwagaba, Alfred

“…Meanwhile, livestock farmers reported shift grazing and change of local varieties as their mitigation actions to the climate change conditions. …”
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Influence of Human Activities on the Rate of Soil Erosion in Ihunga Hill Nyarushanje Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Tugumenawe, Dancun

“…Causes of soil erosion in Nyarushanje Sub¬County Rukungiri District were deforestation, watering gardens and lawns, agriculture, mining, and grazing animals. The study results on the implications of soil erosion to the local community in Nyarushanje Sub-County Rukungiri District were degrading land resource base, soil quality depreciation, low food and agriculture, wearing away of the land surface, loss of the nutrient-rich upper layers of the soil and reduced water-holding capacity. …”
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An Evaluation of the Causes and Effects of Soil Erosion in Kabale District. A case Study of Ikumba Sub-County. by Immaculate, Kebirungi

“…From the study, 32.3% of respondents reported that over cultivation is the major cause of soil erosion, this is followed by 21.5% of the respondents who attributed soil erosion to be caused by the nature of the soil, Bush burning was reported by 5.4% of the respondents also leads to soil erosion,10.7% of the respondents reported road construction as one of the factors leading to soil erosion, Deforestation was also reported to be among the causes of soil erosion at 10.7% and over grazing also at 10.7%. Among the effects of soil erosion in Ikumba sub county, 26.8% of the respondents revealed that soil erosion leads to loss of soil fertility, 32.3% of the respondents said that soil erosion leads to famine, 16.1% of respondents revealed that soil erosion results into destruction of human settlement and swamps as reported by 10.7% of the respondents and 6.4% of the respondents reported disease outbreak from eroded waste material.…”
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Assessing the Effects of Land Use Practices on Land Cover in Bubare Sub-County Rubanda District. by Kembabazi, Naome

“…The use of farmyard manure should be encouraged to restore land cover, alongside sustainable farming practices like crop rotation and rotational grazing to prevent land degradation. Additionally, policies should be developed to promote afforestation, reduce deforestation, and educate the community on the responsible use of land to prevent environmental damage.…”
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Assessment of the Effects of Local Community Activities on Forest Resources on Echuya Central Forest Reserve in Muko Sub-County Rubanda District Uganda. by Akatukunda, Rogers

“…Regarding community activities, the study identified practices like crop farming, grazing, brick-making, stone quarrying, and sand mining as prevalent around the forest. …”
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Integrating Individual-Based Indices of Contaminant Effects by Christopher L. Rowe, William A. Hopkins, Justin D. Congdon

“…Morphological abnormalities in the oral and tail regions in contaminant-exposed individuals influenced other properties such as grazing, growth, and swimming performance. Behavioral changes in swimming activities and responses to stimuli appear to influence predation risk in the contaminant-exposed population. …”
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Threats and the active protection of birds in a riverbed: postulates for the strategy of the preservation of the middle Vistula River avifauna by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…While in 1985-1994 the main risks for their breeding were found to be flood waters, predation by the hooded crow Corvus corone cornix and the Eurasian magpie Pica pica, as well as, locally, uncontrolled livestock grazing, in 2005-2014 they were primarily predation pressure from the American mink Neovision vision and the red fox Vulpes vulpes and massive outbreaks of black flies Simuliidae. …”
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The investigation of copper (cu), iron (fe), total iron binding capacity (tibc) and zn levels of blood serum of the ewes in izmir region by Ali Muhtar Tiftik, Selma (Çınar) Doğanay

“…In this research designed for determining Cu,Fe,Tolal iron binding capacity (TIBC) and Zn levels of blood serum of the healthy ewes grazed in the meadows in Izmir Region, a total of 250 units of blood-samples, being from a; least 10 ewes in each herd, were collected from different 15 herds belonging to various villages ot some different counties of İzmir (Karşıyaka, Seferihisar, Torbalı, Kemalpaşa. …”
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Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Helminthiasis in Horses and Donkeys of Hawassa District, Southern Ethiopia by Mesfin Mathewos, Dawit Girma, Haben Fesseha, Metages Yirgalem, Eyob Eshetu

“…Hence, strategic deworming using broad-spectrum antihelminthic drugs and a rotational grazing program should be implemented to control and prevent the diseases.…”
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Epidemiological Survey of Toxoplasma gondii and Associated Risk Factors in Ruminant Species of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan by Abid Ali, Talha Omer, Asad Ullah, Abdul Haleem, Maryam Naseem, Mujeeb Ullah, Seemab, Fahad Shamim, Amna Tehreem, Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Numan Khan

“…Infection with T. gondii seems mainly associated with different geographic features and the presence of cats in the environment, low hygiene water systems and livestock that are mostly dependent on outdoor drinking and grazing. There was no significant association between IgM and age grouping (χ2=6.660, P=0.840 nor for IgG (χ2=8.136, P=0.43). …”
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Visible light photocatalytic efficiency and corrosion resistance of Zn, Ni, and Cu-doped TiO2 coatings by Mona Khalaghi, Masoud Atapour, Mohamad Mohsen Momeni, Mohammad Reza Karampoor

“…The impact of doping TiO2 with Cu, Ni, and Zn was examined by considering the morphology, visible light response, corrosion and photocorrosion performance, and photocatalytic activity. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) results show that dopants are uniformly distributed in the form of oxide states. …”
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A Numerical Approach to Study Ablation of Large Bolides: Application to Chelyabinsk by Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Joan Dergham, Maria Gritsevich, Esko Lyytinen, Elizabeth A. Silber, Iwan P. Williams

“…Our study also explores the main implications for impact hazard, concluding that tens of meters in diameter NEOs encountering the Earth in grazing trajectories and exhibiting low geocentric velocities are penetrating deeper into the atmosphere than previously thought and, as such, are capable of producing meteorites and even damage on the ground.…”
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Aniline dissociation reaction-time developed surface composites on severe plastic deformed aluminum through surface mechanical alloying by Mohamed Refaat Ebrahim, Emad Al Ashkar

“…Surface dissociation-reaction time development was detected and followed using X-Ray Diffraction at a grazing incidence 'GIXRD' qualitative identification. …”
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Free Pasture of Exotic Goats Reduces Diversity and Negatively Affects Body Condition in Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) Assemblage From Brazilian Seasonal Dry Tropical Forest by Thayna Rhayane Brito‐Almeida, Stênio Ítalo Araújo Foerster, José Rivaldo Lima, Meykson Alexandre daSilva, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa deMoura, André Felipe deAraujo Lira

“…ABSTRACT Extensive grazing carried out freely by exotic goats represents an important source of anthropogenic degradation in seasonally dry tropical forests of Brazil. …”
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Quantitative impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland growth in Xinjiang, China by Hanyi Rui, Beier Luo, Ying Wang, Lin Zhu, Qinyuan Zhu

“…Overall, in mountainous and flat areas, human activities contributed more (64.29%) than climate change (35.71%), including activities such as grazing and urbanization.…”
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The assessment of dairy goats’ welfare in alpine summer ranges by Manuela Renna, Benedetta Torsiello, Silvana Mattiello, Luca Battaglini, Monica Battini

“…Aim of this study was to evaluate the results of the application of a modified version of the AWIN welfare assessment protocol for goats in alpine farming systems during summer grazing, focusing on inter-observer reliability (IOR) of the indicators and feasibility of the protocol. …”
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Impact of Land Degradation on Irish Potato Production in Hamurwa Sub-County Rubanda District. by Ahimbisibwe, Columbus

“…This should be done along with good husbandry practices such as crop rotation, and rotational grazing to avoid exhausting a particular plot of land in a short period, which in most cases forces people to exhaust land, there is a need for policymaking concerning land use through a forestation thus discouraging or reducing deforestation and there should education of masses should be encouraged relating to the efficient use of land use practices on Irish potato production through sensitizing people on dangers of destroying agricultural and its related effects.…”
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