Mediating water temperature increases due to livestock and global change in high elevation meadow streams of the Golden Trout Wilderness
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Nusslé S., Matthews K.R. & Carlson S.M. (2015) Mediating water temperature increases due to livestock and global change in high elevation meadow streams of the Golden Trout Wilderness. PLoS ONE, 10, e0142426.
Published source details Nusslé S., Matthews K.R. & Carlson S.M. (2015) Mediating water temperature increases due to livestock and global change in high elevation meadow streams of the Golden Trout Wilderness. PLoS ONE, 10, e0142426.
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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.
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Other biodiversity: Exclude grazers
A site comparison in 2014 in an alpine meadow in southern California, USA, found more and larger willow Salix sp. trees in a plot from which cattle were excluded, compared to a grazed area. Plants: Streamside vegetation within a plot from which cattle were excluded had more willows than the surrounding grazed area (980 trees in 1,200 m vs 75 in 900 m) and had a lower cover of sedges Carex sp. (data not reported). Willows within the ungrazed plot were larger than those in the grazed area (average height: 48 vs 25 cm; maximum height: 300 vs 170 cm). Methods: Cattle were excluded from a 1,200 m section of stream in 1991 but were allowed to graze on the remaining 900 m. Vegetation within 2 m of the stream was surveyed in 2014.
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