Daily intake and the selection of feeding sites by horses in heterogeneous wet grasslands

By G. Fleurance, P. Duncan, Bruno Mallevaud. 2001

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Comparative foraging and nutrition of horses and cattle in European wetlands (2002, background): “They spent up to 70% of their grazing time on these (as in other areas; Odberg & Francis-Smith 1976; Putman 1986) and apparently improve the quality of their diet (crude protein 38% higher; Fleurance, Duncan & Mallevaud 2001 ).”
Foraging behaviour of domestic herbivore species grazing on heathlands associated with improved pasture areas (2013, background): “Equines are known to possess very high grazing times (14–17 h/day) as previously observed in different vegetation conditions (Edouard et al., 2009; Fleurance et al., 2001).”
Effects of grazing by horses and/or cattle on the diversity of coastal grasslands in western France (2004, background): “communities, as Fleurance et al. (2001) showed, in this particular site, that the quality of the vegetation is higher on short swards than in taller vegetation.”
Factors and processes affecting plant biodiversity in permanent grasslands. A review (2011, unknown): “Horses focus their grazing activities on attractive sites with greater forage quality or nutrient content (Fleurance et al. 2001).”
Grazing and pasture management for biodiversity benefit (2003, background): “Inter-animal distance and percentage of time spent on upland pasture by Scottish Blackface and Suffolk ewes rearing lambs either of their own, or of the other breed (according to Dwyer and Lawrence [8]).”