The impacts of cattle grazing on stream ecosystems in Grasslands National Park of Canada, Saskatchewan

The impacts of cattle grazing on stream ecosystems in Grasslands National Park of Canada, Saskatchewan

Cattle are responsible for the deterioration of aquatic and riparian ecosystems throughout the North American prairies. Marked preference for riparian areas has resulted in vegetation loss, stream bank destabilization, changes in sediment particle size, and increased nutrient loads in the streams. A...

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Main Author: Wlasichuk, Cynthia
Other Authors: Galloway, Terry (Entomology)
Published: 2014
Subjects:
grasslands
prairies
mixed grass
cattle
streams
invertebrates
macroinvertebrates
RCA
reference
BAGMA
grazing
impacts
Saskatchewan
National
Park
Intensity
regression
model
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23873

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http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23873

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