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Workshop Outline. Rangeland Ecosystems How Plants Grow Vegetation Dynamics (plant succession) on Rangelands Principles of Grazing Management Concepts & Principles for Grazing Systems Nutritional Considerations for Management of Livestock on Rangelands - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Workshop OutlineWorkshop Outline1.1. Rangeland EcosystemsRangeland Ecosystems2.2. How Plants GrowHow Plants Grow3.3. Vegetation Dynamics (plant succession) Vegetation Dynamics (plant succession)
on Rangelandson Rangelands4.4. Principles of Grazing ManagementPrinciples of Grazing Management5.5. Concepts & Principles for Grazing SystemsConcepts & Principles for Grazing Systems6.6. Nutritional Considerations for Nutritional Considerations for
Management of Livestock on RangelandsManagement of Livestock on Rangelands7.7. The Grazing Manager as a Tool for The Grazing Manager as a Tool for
Planning, Monitoring and Managing Range Planning, Monitoring and Managing Range and Pasture Landsand Pasture Lands
Rangelands:Rangelands:Kinds, Products & UsesKinds, Products & Uses
Mort KothmannMort Kothmann
Texas A&M UniversityTexas A&M University
Rangeland DiversityRangeland Diversity
AttributesAttributes ClimateClimate SoilsSoils TopographyTopography VegetationVegetation
UsesUses Livestock productionLivestock production Wildlife habitat/productionWildlife habitat/production WatershedWatershed Biodiversity and open spaceBiodiversity and open space Real estate valueReal estate value
Dominant historical use has been livestock production
Fire, herbivory, and weather have historically been the major disturbances affecting vegetation on rangelands.
Vegetation types of world
Kinds of RangelandsKinds of Rangelands
The following slides provide examples The following slides provide examples of diverse kinds of rangelands found of diverse kinds of rangelands found around the world.around the world.
African Savanna
California Oak Savanna –Annual Grassland
Cheatgrass - Idaho
Artic TundraArtic Tundra
Aspen – Tall Forb – Grassland
Western US
Texas Rolling Plains Grassland
Mountain & Basin semi-desert shrubland
Southern mixed prairie grassland
Rio Grande Plains Thorn Shrubland
Texas Coastal Prairie: Atwater’s prairie chicken
Rangelands have very diverse Rangelands have very diverse climates, soils, vegetation, and climates, soils, vegetation, and animals. Rangeland ecosystems have animals. Rangeland ecosystems have different productive potentials and different productive potentials and require different kinds of require different kinds of management to sustain or reclaim management to sustain or reclaim them.them.