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Feeding value of different plant functional types of oak mediterranean ecossystems
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Trees and shrubs are useful sources of cheap feed for ruminant
animals, especially during dry or cool seasons when conventional
forages are scarce and of low quality. Further, conventional
livestock farmers experience risks in feed provision due to climate
change, while tree fodders and shrubs can increase the system´s
resilience to weather variability and extreme events.
However, amongst ligneous species there is a great variability on,
their feeding value since the proportion between contents (protein,
sugars, starch) and cell walls (cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin), the
production of secondary metabolites (phenols, tannins) and other
defence mechanisms (thorns) against herbivory depends on the
ecological strategy of the plant which influences their chemical
composition.
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Palavras-chave
Oak mediterranean ecossystems
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Castro, Marina; Fernández-Núñez, E. (2018). Feeding value of different plant functional types of oak mediterranean ecossystems. In 4th European Agroforestry Conference Agroforestry as Sustainable Land Use. Nijmegen, Holanda
Editora
EURAF, USC