Application of an Herbivore-Plant Model to Rest-Rotation Grazing Management on Shrub-Steppe Rangeland

Abstract

A graphical model of a discontinuously stable herbivore-plant system is used to demonstrate analytically relationships between the amount of rest, stocking rate, and seasons of use in rest-rotation livestock grazing management on shrub-grass ranges. All three of these components are important and their interaction determines the system's response. Important points applicable to management are enumerated.