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Soil Carbon and Nitrogen of Northern Great Plains Grasslands as Influenced by Long-Term Grazing

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L Hofmann, Donald L Tanaka, Ronald F Follett, and Albert B Frank, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen of Northern Great Plains Grasslands as Influenced by Long-Term Grazing: .

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Three mixed prairie sites at Mandan, N.D. were grazed heavily (0.9 ha ), moderately (2.6 ha ), or left ungrazed (exclosure) since 1916. These sites provided treatments to study the effects of long-term grazing on soil organic carbon and nitrogen content and to relate changes in soil carbon and nitrogen to grazing induced changes in species composition. Blue grama [Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag. ex Griffiths] accounted for the greatest change in species composition for both grazing treatments. Relative foliar cover of blue grama was 25% in 1916 and 86% in 1994 in the heavily grazed pasture and 15% in 1916 to 16% in 1994 in the moderately grazed pasture. Total soil nitrogen content was higher in the exclosure (1.44 kg N ha-1) than [...]

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