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Seasonality of biomass production of irrigated Mombaça ‘Guinea grass’

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Soil and Plant Science, 2021
Seasonality in tropical forage production is common in tropical and subtropical regions and should be identified for decision making on the stocking rate for each period.
Fernanda Lamede Ferreira de Jesus, Arthur Carniato Sanches, Débora Pantojo de Souza, Fernando Campos Mendonça, Eder Pereira Gomes, Rodrigo Couto Santos, Jannaylton Everton Oliveira Santos, Jhon Lennon Bezerra da Silva   +7 more
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Silages of sorghum, Tamani guinea grass, and Stylosanthes in an integrated system: production and quality

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Crop–livestock integration systems are efficient technologies for diversifying production and promoting agricultural sustainability. However, less is known about the triple intercropping of crops for silage production.
Laís Guerra Prado, Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa, Luciana Maria da Silva, Adriano Carvalho Costa, Eduardo da Costa Severiano, João Victor Campos Pinho Costa, Eduardo Habermann, João Antônio Gonçalves e Silva   +7 more
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Tropical vegetation response to Heinrich Event 1 as simulated with the UVic ESCM and CCSM3 [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2013
We investigated changes in tropical climate and vegetation cover associated with abrupt climate change during Heinrich Event 1 (HE1, ca. 17.5 ka BP) using two different global climate models: the University of Victoria Earth System-Climate Model (UVic ...
D. Handiani, A. Paul, M. Prange, U. Merkel, L. Dupont, X. Zhang   +5 more
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Temperate pine barrens and tropical rain forests are both rich in undescribed fungi. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Most of fungal biodiversity on Earth remains unknown especially in the unexplored habitats. In this study, we compared fungi associated with grass (Poaceae) roots from two ecosystems: the temperate pine barrens in New Jersey, USA and tropical rain ...
Jing Luo, Emily Walsh, Abhishek Naik, Wenying Zhuang, Keqin Zhang, Lei Cai, Ning Zhang   +6 more
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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity : a synthesis [PDF]

, 2009
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is it recognized threat to plant diversity ill temperate and northern parts of Europe and North America. This paper assesses evidence from field experiments for N deposition effects and thresholds for terrestrial plant
Alkemade, R., Ashmore, M., Bobbink, R., Bustamante, M., Cinderby, S., Davidson, E., De Vries, W., Dentener, F., Emmett, B., Erisman, J. -W., Fenn, M., Galloway, J., Gilliam, F., Hicks, K., Nordin, A., Pardo, L., Spranger, T.   +16 more
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Performance of Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands Planted with Indigenous Species for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Production in Kerala, India [PDF]

Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2021
This study evaluates the performance of tropical subsurface vertical flow constructed wetlands (VFCW) having indigenous plants as decentralized ecological treatment systems for municipal wastewater treatment combined with biomass production.
Jaya S. Pillai and A. N. Brijesh Nair
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Parks, people and pixels: evaluating landscape effects of an East African national park on its surroundings [PDF]

, 2010
Landscapes surrounding protected areas, while still containing considerable biodiversity, have rapidly growing human populations and associated agricultural development in most of the developing world that tend to isolate them, potentially reducing their
Binford, Elizabeth, Binford, Michael W, Chapman, Colin A., Chapman, Lauren J, Goldman, Abraham, Hartter, Joel N., Omeja, Patrick, Southworth, Jane   +7 more
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Weaned lambs from different litter size submitted to contrasting feeding systems on tropical pastures [PDF]

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance and ingestive behavior of singleton and twin lambs after weaning under different feeding systems on tropical pasture.
Andressa Miranda Madruga, Cesar Henrique Espírito Candal Poli, Jalise Fabíola Tontini, Leonardo Deiss, Gladis Ferreira Correa, Neuza Maria Fajardo, Viviane da Silva Hampel, Mariana de Souza Farias, Paul Richard Kenyon, José Carlos Ferrugem Moraes   +9 more
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Natural lactic acid bacteria population of tropical grasses and their fermentation factor analysis of silage prepared with cellulase and inoculant [PDF]

, 2016
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Waroon Khota, Suradej Pholsen, David HIggs, and Yimin Cai, 'Natural lactic acid bacteria population of tropical grasses and their fermentation factor analysis of silage prepared ...
Cai, Yimin, Higgs, David, Khota, Waroon, Pholsen, Suradej   +3 more
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Morphological characteristics, nutritive quality, and methane production of tropical grasses in Brazil [PDF]

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2018
: The objective of this work was to evaluate three tropical forage species for their in vitro methane (CH4) production and organic matter degradability, in order to determine the relationships between forage grass nutritive quality and CH4 production ...
Danilo Montalvão Lima, Adibe Luiz Abdalla Filho, Paulo de Mello Tavares Lima, Gabriel Zanuto Sakita, Tairon Pannunzio Dias e Silva, Concepta McManus, Adibe Luiz Abdalla, Helder Louvandini   +7 more
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