overgrazing

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07:57 Sep 7, 2009
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Environment & Ecology
Additional field(s): Livestock / Animal Husbandry
English term or phrase: overgrazing
Definition from Biodiversity & human health:
Destruction of vegetation when too many grazing animals feed too long and exceed the carrying capacity of a rangeland area.

Example sentence(s):
  • Overgrazing by domestic animals like sheep, goats, cows, mules, horses and yaks has been responsible for large scale degradation of the vegetative cover in many parts of the Himalayas. Himalayas
  • What constitutes overgrazing is failure to move or rotate animals in harmony with forage growth. Proper grazing management is a matter of moving animals before they have the opportunity to regraze lush regrowth. Beef magazine
  • Overgrazing by large herbivores such as red deer and sheep has been the primary cause of the lack of tree regeneration in the Caledonian Forest in the past 150-200 years. Trees for life
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nuganymas


Definition from Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis te:
Nuganymas reiškia leidimą gyvuliams nuėsti ar paukščiams nulesti pasėlius, sąmoningai gyvulius ir paukščius paleidžiant į pasėlius arba netinkamai juos prižiūrint.

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  • Sprendimo dėl Owenduff-Nephin Beg Complex dalykas taip pat buvo veikla, kuriai turėjo būti užkirstas kelias, t. y. žemės nuganymas ir apželdinimas mišku. - Eur-lex  
  • Žemės ūkio įmonių ir ūkininkų ūkių pasėlių nuganymas, laukuose esančio nuimto žemės ūkio kultūrų derliaus sugadinimas, sunaikinimas, želdinių sužalojimas, kuriuos padaro gyvuliai ar paukščiai, - užtraukia baudą nuo septyniasdešimt penkių iki vieno šimto penkiasdešimties litų. - Teisingumo ministerija  
  • Viena iš dažniausių žmogaus sukeliamų dykumėjimo priežasčių yra nuganymas, kai galvijų tankis esamomis klimato sąlygomis yra per didelis. - Wikipedia  
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