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Weed Incursion Of Irrigated Forage–Forb Mixtures Under Mob Grazing Or Mowing In The Mountain West Usa, Jennifer Macadam, Jared Gibbons, Xin Dai Feb 2025

Weed Incursion Of Irrigated Forage–Forb Mixtures Under Mob Grazing Or Mowing In The Mountain West Usa, Jennifer Macadam, Jared Gibbons, Xin Dai

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Improving the quality of irrigated pastures can increase the profitability of ruminant production systems. Increasing pasture plant biodiversity is beneficial for ruminants, pollinators, and soil health, but it is challenging to manage weed incursion in seeded mixed-species pastures. This study assessed the weed incursion that resulted when forage legumes or grasses were seeded as binary mixtures with one of four non-legume forbs. Defoliation occurred at 6-week intervals as either mowing or mob grazing. Forbs were chicory, plantain, Lewis flax, or small burnet and forages were alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, creeping foxtail, intermediate wheatgrass, kura clover, meadow bromegrass, orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass, reed …


Invasion Ecology Of Alternanthera Philoxeroides, Cyperus Blepharoleptos, Panicum Repens, And Triadica Sebifera, Samuel A. Schmid, Adrián Lázaro-Lobo, Cory M. Shoemaker, Andrew Sample, Mackenzie Cade, Gary N. Ervin, Gray Turnage Jan 2024

Invasion Ecology Of Alternanthera Philoxeroides, Cyperus Blepharoleptos, Panicum Repens, And Triadica Sebifera, Samuel A. Schmid, Adrián Lázaro-Lobo, Cory M. Shoemaker, Andrew Sample, Mackenzie Cade, Gary N. Ervin, Gray Turnage

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Several invasion ecology hypotheses explain patterns of invasion, but these effects are often complex and multifaceted. Within the study of aquatic invasive species, small aquatic ecosystems are often neglected, despite them representing most global freshwater bodies. This study uses community composition and environmental and geographic factors to explain the occurrence of invasive species in small lakes in the southeastern United States. Specifically, this study predicted that several ecosystem factors would predict the probability of occurrence of invasive species of the lakes studied. Four of the most common invasive species were selected as the focus of this study: Alternanthera philoxeroides, Cyperus …