Authors
Jessica N Fulgoni, Matt R Whiles, Walter K Dodds, Danelle M Larson, Karen E Jackson, Bartosz P Grudzinski
Publication date
2020/7
Journal
Journal of Applied Ecology
Volume
57
Issue
7
Pages
1303-1313
Description
- Patch‐burn grazing (PBG) can promote terrestrial heterogeneity and biodiversity, but can temporarily increase stream nutrients and ecosystem metabolism, and alter macroinvertebrate assemblages. The impacts of grazing on stream channel morphology and post‐PBG recovery patterns are unclear.
- We assessed the influence of grazing in PBG managed grassland streams in Missouri, USA, and subsequent recovery when grazing ceased for 2 years. We hypothesized that grazing would degrade water quality, stream biotic integrity and channel morphology, but that riparian fencing would mitigate these effects. We predicted that biological and chemical variables in unfenced streams would return to pre‐PBG levels within 2 years after grazing ceased, but channel morphology would not.
- Six small headwater streams (two in ungrazed control watersheds, two in PBG watersheds with 10 m fenced riparian zones and …
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