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Nutrition and fertilization of forage grasses / edited by Renato de Mello Prado, Gustavo Caione.
Springer Nature - Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0) eBooks 2025 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- de Mello Prado, Renato.
- Series:
- Biomedical and Life Sciences Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture.
- Soil science.
- Botany.
- Soil Science.
- Plant Science.
- Local Subjects:
- Agriculture.
- Soil Science.
- Plant Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book addresses the relevance of tropical pastures and the challenges they face in terms of soil fertility, productivity, and sustainability. These pastures are characterized by highly weathered soils, low fertility, acidity, high aluminum saturation, poor management, and low technological investment, leading to inevitable degradation. The 15 chapters in this publication cover a wide range of topics related to pasture nutrition and fertilization. Readers will find in this work basic concepts, a brief history, and advances and challenges in forage plant nutrition as well as the importance of proper establishment and maintenance of pastures for high productivity and sustainability. It highlights the need for diagnostic practices, monitoring soil fertility and plant nutrition in conservation agricultural systems.
- Contents:
- Introduction to pasture nutrition and fertilization
- Challenges and advances in pasture nutrition
- Nutritional diagnosis of pastures
- Impact of climate change on physiology, production and quality of tropical pastures.-Economic efficiency of conventional and irrigated pasture fertilization
- Innovations in soil fertility management in integrated agricultural production systems
- Soil fertility in pastures: how to build and monitor
- Good practices for the efficient use of fertilizers in pastures
- Use of limestone and gypsum in pastures
- Nitrogen fertilization recommendation for pasture
- Phosphate fertilizer recommendation for pastures
- Potassium fertilizer recommendation for pastures
- Recommendation for fertilization with micronutrients for pastures
- Alternatives for fertilization of intensively managed pastures
- The role of silicon in forage nutrition.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-031-91903-3
- OCLC:
- 1526851123
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