Restoration management of cattle resting place in mountain grassland
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43903423" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903423 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00027006:_____/21:10174575 RIV/60460709:41330/21:85496 RIV/60077344:_____/21:00559291
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249445" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249445</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249445" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0249445</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Restoration management of cattle resting place in mountain grassland
Original language description
This study investigated the effect of restoration management of a weed-infested area, previously used as cattle resting place, on herbage production and nutrient concentrations in the soil and herbage. The experiment was undertaken from 2004 to 2011 at the National Park of Nizke Tatry, Slovakia. Three treatments were applied: (i) cutting twice per year, (ii) herbicide application, followed after three weeks by reseeding with a mixture of vascular plant species and then cut twice per year, and (iii) unmanaged. Treatments had significant effect on biomass production and concentration of nutrients in the soil and in herbage. Nutrient concentrations in herbage and in soil declined progressively under the cutting treatments and reached optimum ranges for dairy cattle at the end of the experiment when herbage N was less than 15 g kg(-1) and herbage P was 3.4 g kg(-1). There was also a strong positive relationship under the cutting treatments between soil nutrient concentrations and herbage nutrient concentrations for N, P, K, Mg and Ca. Although the cutting management as well as the combination of herbicide application with cutting management reduced nutrient concentrations in the soil and in herbage, the nutrient concentrations remained relatively high. We can conclude that restoration of grassland covered with weedy species like Urtica dioica and Rumex obtusifolius, with excessive levels of soil nutrients, cannot be achieved just by cutting and herbicide application.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS One
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000636467000063
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103793447