| 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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| Überweidung | Definition:
Eine zu starke Inanspruchname (Übernutzung) der Vegetation (schlimmstenfalls Kahlfrass) durch von Hirten geführte Tiere heisst in der Fachsprache Überweidung. |
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