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Georgia Stamou, Matina Katsiapi, Maria Moustaka-Gouni and Evangelia Michaloudi
Grazing potential (GP, in % day-1) was estimated for the plankton communities of 13 Greek lakes covering the trophic spectrum, in order to examine its sensitiveness in discriminating different classes of ecological water quality. Lakes with high GP value...
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Giuseppe Di Miceli, Marialetizia Ponte, Lucia Dinolfo, Giuseppe Maniaci, Marianna Pipi, Riccardo Gannuscio, Simona Prestigiacomo, Adriana Bonanno and Antonino Di Grigoli
In Sicilian forage systems, the introduction of native self-seeding annual legumes can be beneficial in low-input farming. Intercropping would be a valuable strategy for implementing pasture resources in Sicilian forage systems during late spring. The ai...
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Cecilia Loza, Hannah Davis, Carsten Malisch, Freidhelm Taube, Ralf Loges, Amelia Magistrali and Gillian Butler
The sustainability of dairying has been questioned, yet cattle exploit non-food resources (especially forages) and provide key nutrients for consumers? health. This study, using different forage types, considered milk?s nutritional quality, focusing on f...
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Cesar A. Meza-Herrera, Maria G. Machado-Ramos, Angeles De Santiago-Miramontes, Miguel Mellado, Cayetano Navarrete-Molina, Maria de los Ángeles Sariñana-Navarrete, José R. Arévalo, Oscar Angel-García, Alan S. Alvarado-Espino and Rafael Rodriguez-Venegas
Founded on a circular economy perspective, the possible effect of targeted supplementation with leftover feed from dairy cows (i.e., intensive system) upon the productive economic performance of crossbred?rangeland goats (i.e., extensive system) in north...
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Huilan Shi, Mengping Liu, Shihai Zhu, Zhonghua Duan, Rongrong Wu, Xiaolong Quan, Mengci Chen, Jiexue Zhang and Youming Qiao
To maintain alpine grassland in a healthy and sustainable state, a sound warning system was developed to diagnose its potential degradation risk. Data related to grassland quality (six indicators), habitat (six indicators), and eco-carrying capacity (thr...
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Piotr Golinski, Patrycja Sobolewska, Barbara Stefanska and Barbara Golinska
Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture being the most cost-effective nutrient source. However, the disadvantages of convent...
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Georgios Theodosiou and Sampson Panajiotidis
Urban streams are ecosystems of great ecological and hydrological importance for human environments. However, they face pressure on biodiversity, hydromorphology, and water quality. In this study, an urban riparian system of a Mediterranean city (Thessal...
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Sanjok Poudel, Wayne E. Zeller, John Fike and Gabriel Pent
Tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceous (Schreb.) Dumort. nom. cons. Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.) toxicosis results from the consumption of alkaloids released by wild-type endophytes (Epichloe coenophiala) that live in symbiosis with the plant....
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Steven M. Ostoja, Hyeyeong Choe, James H. Thorne, Pelayo Alvarez, Amber Kerr, Jennifer Balachowski and Julian Reyes
On a global scale, rangelands occupy approximately half of the world?s land base surface; have a critical role in carbon sequestration and biodiversity; and support a diverse and critical economy, but at the same time, are under threat by many factors, i...
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Worasit Sangjan, Lynne A. Carpenter-Boggs, Tipton D. Hudson and Sindhuja Sankaran
Pasture management approaches can determine the productivity, sustainability, and ecological balance of livestock production. Sensing techniques potentially provide methods to assess the performance of different grazing practices that are more labor and ...
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