To graze or not to graze? Sheep, voles, forestry and nature conservation in the British uplands

Agriculture & Biology

• natural resources conservation 100%
• voles 95%
• forestry 86%
• highlands 77%
• sheep 58%
• grazing 52%
• livestock 52%
• biodiversity 17%
• tree damage 10%
• Microtus agrestis 10%
• foresters 9%
• grazing intensity 9%
• heathlands 8%
• tourism 8%
• aesthetics 8%
• vegetation structure 8%
• birds of prey 8%
• prey species 7%
• stocking rate 7%
• woodlands 7%
• land use 6%
• plant communities 6%
• plantations 5%
• farming systems 5%
• ingestion 5%
• vertebrates 5%
• economics 4%
• birds 4%
• cattle 4%
• habitats 4%
• synthesis 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• sheep 91%
• nature conservation 90%
• livestock 79%
• forestry 77%
• grazing 66%
• grazing pressure 23%
• biodiversity 20%
• moorland 13%
• raptor 12%
• prey availability 12%
• damage 12%
• vegetation structure 10%
• stocking 10%
• esthetics 9%
• cattle 9%
• plant community 8%
• woodland 8%
• vertebrate 8%
• plantation 8%
• tourism 8%
• bird 7%
• experiment 7%
• effect 6%
• young 6%
• food 6%
• land use 6%
• habitat 5%
• economics 5%
• index 4%
• rate 3%