Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
overgrazing
Norwegian translation:
Overbeiting
Sep 7, 2009 07:57
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English term
overgrazing
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Environment & Ecology
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 sentences:
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)
Proposed translations
(Norwegian)
5 +3 | Overbeiting | Hakon Vinje |
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Proposed translations
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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 sentences:
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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Vedis Bjørndal
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Per Bergvall
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Øyvind Strømmen
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