本书是一本全英文著作，改编自作者在德国撰写的英文博士论文，系统的介绍了放牧对内蒙古草原牧草生长及动物生产性能的影响，内容前言，试验严谨客观，数据翔实，语言规范，可为草业及动物营养专业的研究者提供参考。

1 General introduction
1.1 Grasslands in Inner Mongolia
1.2 Grassland utilization in the Inner Mongolian steppe
1.3 Effect of stocking rate on the grassland vegetation and animal production
1.4 Grazing systems
1.5 Research project
1.6 References
2 Effects of rotational and continuous grazing on herbage quality, feed intake,
and performance of sheep on a semi-arid grassland steppe
2.1 Abstract
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Materials and methods
2.3.1 Site of study and current land use system
2.3.2 Experimental design
2.3.3 Herbage mass and quality
2.3.4 Animals and live weight gain
2.3.5 Feed intake and digestibility of ingested herbage
2.3.6 Statistical analysis
2.4 Results
2.4.1 Herbage mass and quality
2.4.2 Digestibility of ingested herbage and feed intake
2.4.3 Live weight gain
2.5 Discussion
2.5.1 Effect of grazing system
2.5.2 Effect of year
2.5.3 Effect of month
2.6 Conclusions
2.7 References
3 Effect of grazing system on feed intake and performance of sheep in a
semi-arid grassland steppe
3.1 Abstract
3.2 Introduction
3.3 Materials and methods
3.3.1 Study area
3.3.2 Experimental design
3.3.3 Animals live weight gain
3.3.4 Herbage allowance
3.3.5 Digestibility of ingested herbage and feed intake
3.3.6 Statistical analysis
3.4 Results
3.4.1 Effects of grazing system and grazing intensity
3.4.2 Effects of year and month
3.5 Discussion
3.5.1 Effects of grazing system
3.5.2 Interaction between grazing system and grazing intensity
3.5.3 Effects of month
3.6 Conclusions
3.7 References
4 General discussion
4.1 Grazing management systems
4.2 Choice of measured parameters
4.3 Grazing systems for Inner Mongolia
4.4 References
5 General conclusions
6 Summary
Appendix 1 AOAC Official Method 942.05 Ash of Animal Feed First Action
1942 Final Action
Appendix 2 AOAC Official Method 2001.11 Protein (Crude) in Animal
Feed, Forage (Plant Tissue), Grain, and Oilseeds Block
Digestion Method Using Copper Catalyst and Steam Distillation
into Boric Acid First Action 2001
Appendix 3 AOAC Official Method 920.39 Fat (Crude) or Ether Extract
in Animal Feed First Action 1920 Final Action
Appendix 4 AOAC Official Method 934.01 Loss on Drying (Moisture) at
95 ～ 100℃ for Feeds Dry Matter on Oven Drying at 95 ～ 100℃
for Feeds First Action 1934 Final Action Codex-Adopted-AOAC
Method
Appendix 5 AOAC Official Method 978.10 Fiber (Crude) in Animal Feed
and Pet Food Fritted Glass Crucible Method First Action 1978
Final Action 1979
Appendix 6 AOAC Official Method 2001.12 Determination of Water/Dry
Matter (Moisture) in Animal Feed, Grain, and Forage
(Plant Tissue) Karl Fischer Titration Methods First
Action 2001