Lidiane Fonseca

TL;DR: As especies forrageiras mais produtivas e com maior potencial para utilizacao em ambiente silvipastoril foram: Axonopus catharinensis e Brachiaria brizantha cv.

TL;DR: Quantifying the mechanisms by which intake rate is determined in swards of contrasting structure and forage species reveals the importance of animal choice in the interaction between animal and sward, and it seems that bite mass first increased and then decreased with increasing sward height, a result that seems due to animal choice and not from restrictions imposed by the swards.

TL;DR: It is concluded that tussock grazing must be incorporated in future versions of the model, after experiments showed that sward structure does determine bite mass and short-term intake rate in the complex native grasslands the authors studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated grazing times of heifers in natural pasture, obtained by visual assessment in 5-minute intervals, and calculated observation intervals of 10, 15 and 20 minutes.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that increasing proportion of Eragrostis plana Nees tus- socks, a non-preferred diet item in natural grassland, will constrain the accessibility of the preferred diet item for grazing animals, and sheep would be less restricted than cat- tle.