Impacts of Grazing on the Selected Features of Herbaceous Species and Harvested Dry Matter Yield of Natural Pasture

Table 4

Impacts of grazing on the selected features of herbaceous species and dry matter yield.

Features of herbaceous species	Grazing type			Overall	value
	Grazing exclusion areas	Controlled grazing	Continuous grazing
Biomass (t·ha^−1)	2.75 ± 0.2^a	2.41 ± 0.37^ab	1.75 ± 0.27^b	2.31 ± 0.17	0.023
Basal cover (%)	64.76 ± 1.98^a	62.60 ± 3.66^ab	55.00 ± 2.18^b	60.78 ± 1.87	0.008
Shannon–Weiner diversity index	1.81	1.70	1.68
Richness	35	31	24
Evenness	0.87	0.82	0.73

Means within the same row with different superscript letters differ significantly () among grazing types.