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Title: THE CHANGES OF FOREST GROUND VEGETATION CAUSED BY GRAZING, LATVIA

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2024

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THE CHANGES OF FOREST GROUND VEGETATION CAUSED BY GRAZING, LATVIA

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Authors

Inga Straupe; Alise Dimane

DOI

10.5593/sgem2024/3.1/s14.48

DOI Issue

10.5593/sgem2024/3.1

ISSN

1314-2704

ISBN

978-619-7603-70-5

Language

English

Volume

Issue

3.1

Editor

• Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE
• Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA

Scientific Area

Forest Ecosystems

Abstract/ Foreword

The aim of the research is to find out how the forest ground vegetation changes in forest pasture where wild horses are allowed to graze, and what impact their grazing in the forest have on the vegetation and how the situation changes in a forest stand where animals are allowed to graze and, in a forest, stand of the same type without grazing. So far forest pastures practically have not been studied, but forest management using animals especially in private forestry is becoming more and more relevant. Almost no similar study has been conducted in Latvia on the impact of large herbivores (wild horses) on forest ground vegetation. Forest stand is divided into two parts – one where the animals graze, the other behind the fence in the same forest stand where they are not grazed, so it is possible to objectively assess the changes between the two territories and how the ground vegetation changes under the influence of animals. The study compares changes between forest pasture and ungrazed forest area: the number, the occurrence and the projective coverage of plant species, as well as other vegetation indicators. It has been established that the ground cover of forest pastures does not differ significantly to compare with ungrazed forest area.

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This study was funded by Latvia University of Life sciences and Technologies’ Z72 project ‘Influence of meteorological factors on radial increment of introduced tree species in Latvia’.

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Proceedings of 24th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2024

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24th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2024, 1 - 07 July, 2024

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Proceedings Paper

Publisher

STEF92 Technology

Series

International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, SGEM

Organization

SWS Scholarly Society; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci and Arts; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; European Acad Sci, Arts and Letters; Acad Fine Arts Zagreb Croatia; Croatian Acad Sci and Arts; Acad Sci Moldova; Montenegrin Acad Sci and Arts; Georgian Acad Sci; Acad Fine Arts and Design Bratislava; Russian Acad Arts; Turkish Acad Sci.

Pages

409-416

Date

1 - 07 July, 2024

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Keywords

forest pasture, forest grazing, wild horses, forest ground vegetation

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