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- Title
Avanços na avaliação de pastagens cultivadas com forrageiras tropicais no Brasil: Uma Revisão.
- Authors
de Morais, Leonardo Fiusa; Brandão De Carvalho, Carlos Augusto; Assis Anjos, Amanda Nunes; Renato Viegas, Carlos; Ferreira Da Silva, Pedro Henrique
- Abstract
The objective of this review is to present the concepts and current research on the main methods for evaluation of the sward in pastures planted with tropical forage plants environments. In the evaluation of pastures, the study of variables that directly affect the productive performance of the animals, has been prioritized, and thus, there are some determining factors on the performance of the production system, all of which seek greater consumption of forage and better performance of the animals. One of the determining factors to estimate a pasture carrying capacity, is getting the forage mass, and the most accurate method to estimate forage mass of a pasture is the harvest of all this material in the area to be evaluated. However, this has operational limitations to run on large areas, which meant that indirect methods based on geographic modeling and information technologies were widely studied. In addition to the production characteristics, morphogenetic and structural characteristics may interfere directly on the efficiency of the system, so that characterize the grassland ecosystem, and can predict important information such as the life of a pasture and consumption of animals. Thus, the importance of methods to evaluate pastures contribute relevant information and additional fodder production and behavior of grasses in pasture ecosystems, through information on the stability of the plant population contributing to reducing the risk of degradation of pastures.
- Publication
Brazilian Journal of Applied Technology for Agricultural Science / Revista Brasileira de Tecnologia Aplicada nas Ciências Agrárias, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
1983-6325
- Publication type
Article