overgrazing

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16:54 Nov 28, 2008
English to Danish translations [PRO]
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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5overgræsning
Anna Haxen


  

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overgræsning


Definition from Den Store Danske:
overgræsning, meget hård afgræsning af et område, så senere vækst nedsættes eller måske ophører.

Example sentence(s):
  • Rensdyrene vandrer hurtigt videre for at søge andre græsgange, når føden er sparsom, mens moskusokserne og får har for vane at græsse mere intensivt, hvorfor faren for overgræsning er mere udtalt for disse arter. - Environmental Protection Agency  
Anna Haxen
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