Temperate grasslands are affected by nutrient deficiency and this deficiency is one of the main limiting factors for forage production, such as the grasslands of the Salado River Basin (Argentina), which exhibit low-P ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonize the root systems of most natural grassland species and usually increase plant growth by enhancing nutrients provision. This effect on growth responses of cultivated forage grasses ...

Questions: Responses of wetland systems to grazing can be highly variable with both positive or negative responses. However, the sustainable use of wetlands for grazing will depend on the management implemented and the ...

This study determined the impact of a change in grazing system on beef production from lucerne pastures in Argentina. One system (T500) used the traditional recommendation to commence grazing in spring when lucerne was ...

Interspecific competition plays a key role in the organisation of ant communities. In ant–plant interactions, individual host plants are usually occupied by a single ant colony, and co-occurring ant species compete for ...

The aim of this study was to identify the models which best fit the degradation profiles of some forages used in ruminant nutrition in order to obtain better estimates of the parameters that describe the kinetics of ruminal ...

Pasture management is a key-factor of integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS), being necessary to understand plant and animal growth. The nitrogen fertilizer is another important factor to ICLS, because the availability ...

Woodpeckers feed primarily on insects, larvae and other arthropods; however, several members of this family include plant products in their diets, such as sap. Among them, the genera Sphyrapicus and Melanerpes include the ...

Helicoverpa armigera Hubner, 1805 and Spodoptera frugiperda Smith, 1797 are polyphagous pests of great agricultural importance in subtropical and temperate climate regions. The usual management of production areas in the ...