Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua

11 ilus. 5 tab. Bib. p. 38-41

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Main Author: Aastum, M.I.
Format: Tesis
Language:Inglés
Published: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Noruega) CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) 2014
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Online Access:https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/2169
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spelling RepoCATIE21692021-12-22T20:55:44Z Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua Aastum, M.I. NICARAGUA GANADO RAZAS MIXTAS ALIMENTACION DE LOS ANIMALES TIERRAS DE PASTOS FORRAJES VARIEDADES ELECCION DE ESPECIES DEFICIENCIAS NUTRITIVAS 11 ilus. 5 tab. Bib. p. 38-41 Tesis (Mag.Sc.) - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Noruega), 2006 Three paddock types differing in soil nutrient content and grazing pressure were studied, i.e. nutrient poor (NP) paddocks with high and low grazing pressure, and nutrient rich (NR) paddocks with low grazing pressure. In each paddock the floristic composition of diets, cow tansects and control transects were measured, and the proportion of each species in the diet and in the transects was calculated. Additionally, an index of selectivity (IS) was calculated from this data.This study indicates that the cows in the nutrient poor paddocks were not excessively selective in their choice of forage, probably due to low abundance of preferred species, and realtively high abundance of species of low forage quality. Further, the utilization of the paddocks are probably not the most advantageous, as a relatively large proportion of the species were avoided in both the diet and the feeding sites, and quite few species were avoided in both the diet and the feeding sites, and quite few species were selected in both. 2014-10-17T15:35:39Z 2014-10-17T15:35:39Z 2006 Tesis de maestría 370288 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/2169 en info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Noruega) CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
spellingShingle NICARAGUA
GANADO
RAZAS MIXTAS
ALIMENTACION DE LOS ANIMALES
TIERRAS DE PASTOS
FORRAJES
VARIEDADES
ELECCION DE ESPECIES
DEFICIENCIAS NUTRITIVAS
Aastum, M.I.
Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua
title Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua
title_full Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua
title_fullStr Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua
title_full_unstemmed Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua
title_short Forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in Nicaragua
title_sort forage selection by cattle in heterogeneous pastures in nicaragua
topic NICARAGUA
GANADO
RAZAS MIXTAS
ALIMENTACION DE LOS ANIMALES
TIERRAS DE PASTOS
FORRAJES
VARIEDADES
ELECCION DE ESPECIES
DEFICIENCIAS NUTRITIVAS
url https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/2169
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