Choice by cattle between conterminous monocultures of two tropical grasses
Botanical composition as well as the availability and quality of forage is a crucial vegetation factor in feeding location choice by grazing animals.In recent years,an experimental design using conterminous monocultures of plants has increased our understanding of the interspecific selection of forage plants by animals because this experimental system allows animals to express unconstrained preference by minimizing physical constraints to selection (Chapman et al.2007).However, such a methodology has never been used for tropical pasture species.This study investigated preference in cattle grazing conterminous monocultures of two tropical grasses.
cattle diet selection reward tropical grass
M.Hirata
Division of Grassland Science,Faculty of Agriculture,University of Miyazaki,Miyazaki 889-2192,Japan
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）