Performances and limits of using meadows with scattered fruit - trees under long term grazing and cutting conditions in South GermanyTrček, Uršula (Avtor) Elsäßer, Martin (Mentor) Klopčič, Marija (Komentor) orchardsgrasslandbotanical compositionforage qualityGrassland with scattered fruit trees (Streuobstwiesen) is very common in Baden-Wuerttemberg and highly significant for the ecological situation. Moreover, the use of this areas is not sustainable because the change of agricultural structure and lack of suitable utilization concepts. The objective of the current observational study was to examine the agricultural value of such ecological precious grasslands comparing grazing and mowing. Additionally, the effects of shadow under the trees on dry matter yield and botanical composition was observed. The results had shown that scattered fruit trees influenced dry matter yield production negatively. DM yield was, compared to sunny areas, under shaded areas of scattered fruit trees 25 % lower on pastures and 29 % lower on meadows. The DM yield per year cannot be compared between meadows and pastures, due to the length of observation period only until the end of June. In the observed time, meadows produced more DM yield as pastures. Botanical composition on meadows was more diverse as on pastures, slight differences between sunny and shaded areas were recognised. Therefore, the differences in forage quality existed. All this resulted also on measuring of photosynthetic active radiation, where shaded areas reach 64 % less photosynthetically active radiation as sunny areas.20172017-10-07 07:15:52Magistrsko delo/naloga96655sl