Organic grassland farming in the Netherlands:A case study of effects on vegetation dynamics
is less expensive than haymaking or extensive grazing without return from agricultural exploitation. Keeping dairy cattle in nature reserves, without any fertilizer application and with rotational grazing-one of the many forms of organic grassland farming-was shown to be economically feasible: the d...
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/fb681901-5955-4ae6-b9dd-0b7a71249440 2024-06-02T08:05:14+00:00 Organic grassland farming in the Netherlands:A case study of effects on vegetation dynamics Bakker, J P ter Heerdt, G N J 2005 https://hdl.handle.net/11370/fb681901-5955-4ae6-b9dd-0b7a71249440 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/fb681901-5955-4ae6-b9dd-0b7a71249440 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2005.01.003 eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/fb681901-5955-4ae6-b9dd-0b7a71249440 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Bakker , J P & ter Heerdt , G N J 2005 , ' Organic grassland farming in the Netherlands : A case study of effects on vegetation dynamics ' , Basic and Applied Ecology , vol. 6 , no. 2 , pp. 205-214 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2005.01.003 dairy cattle forage quality mesotrophic grassland nature management plant species composition soil conditions article 2005 ftunigroningenpu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2005.01.003 2024-05-07T18:24:10Z is less expensive than haymaking or extensive grazing without return from agricultural exploitation. Keeping dairy cattle in nature reserves, without any fertilizer application and with rotational grazing-one of the many forms of organic grassland farming-was shown to be economically feasible: the dairy cattle produced 6000 kg milk animal(-1) year(-1). During an 11-year period the forage quality of the herbage-net energy value, digestible crude protein content and the potassium-and phosphate contents all remained sufficiently high. The Ellenberg indicator value for nitrogen soil fertility decreased slowly. The plant species composition changed from a Poa trivialis-Lolium perenne towards a Poa trivialis-Holcus lanatus community. Species of wet grassland communities such as Lychnis flos-cuculi, Caltha palustris and Carex aquatilis remained rare in ditches within the fields and did not spread into the fields. It became clear from the present study that cessation of fertilizer application alone, when starting from eutrophic soil conditions, is not sufficient to restore mesotrophic plant communities such as Calthion palustris and Junco-Molinion, but has the potential to restore plant communities of pastures such as Lolio-Potentillion and Cynosurion cristati. (c) 2005 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Carex aquatilis University of Groningen research database Basic and Applied Ecology 6 2 205 214 |
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is less expensive than haymaking or extensive grazing without return from agricultural exploitation. Keeping dairy cattle in nature reserves, without any fertilizer application and with rotational grazing-one of the many forms of organic grassland farming-was shown to be economically feasible: the dairy cattle produced 6000 kg milk animal(-1) year(-1). During an 11-year period the forage quality of the herbage-net energy value, digestible crude protein content and the potassium-and phosphate contents all remained sufficiently high. The Ellenberg indicator value for nitrogen soil fertility decreased slowly. The plant species composition changed from a Poa trivialis-Lolium perenne towards a Poa trivialis-Holcus lanatus community. Species of wet grassland communities such as Lychnis flos-cuculi, Caltha palustris and Carex aquatilis remained rare in ditches within the fields and did not spread into the fields. It became clear from the present study that cessation of fertilizer application alone, when starting from eutrophic soil conditions, is not sufficient to restore mesotrophic plant communities such as Calthion palustris and Junco-Molinion, but has the potential to restore plant communities of pastures such as Lolio-Potentillion and Cynosurion cristati. (c) 2005 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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