overgrazing

Norwegian translation: Overbeiting

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English term or phrase:overgrazing
Norwegian translation:Overbeiting

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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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Overbeiting
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Overbeiting skjer når dyr beiter så lenge på et sted at plantene de spiser, ikke lenger kan fornye seg.
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Overbeiting


Definition from Wikipedia:
Overbeiting skjer når dyr beiter så lenge på et sted at plantene de spiser, ikke lenger kan fornye seg.

Example sentence(s):
  • Overbeiting på Finnmarksvidda har ført til en økologisk katastrofe. De områdene som er hardest rammet er allerede ørken. Problemet er størrelsen på reinsdyrflokkene. - Wikipedia  
  • Beitedyr i Somalia. Overbeiting kan medføre erosjon og framtidig ødeleggelse av beitelandet. - Nasjonal Digital læringsarena  
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