Low sustainability and short persistence of renovated pastures are main issues for pastoral production systems. Pasture establishment and the first year of production were evaluated following different pasture improvement ...

Brazil possesses circa 90 million hectares of good quality pastures and 15 million hectares of pastures that are currently in state of degradation. However, according to a report on changes in land cover and use in Brazil, ...

Variation in aboveground net primary production (ANPP) is usually studied across wide environmental gradients focusing on spatial averages of zonal natural communities. We studied the spatial and temporal variation of ANPP ...

In the Neotropics the predominant pathway to intensify productivity is generally thought to be to convert grasslands to sown pastures, mostly in monoculture. This article examines how above-ground net primary productivity ...