The effects of first defoliation and previous management intensity on forage quality of a semi-natural species-rich grassland

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027006:_____/21:10174578 RIV/00027014:_____/21:N0000282 RIV/60460709:41330/21:85490 RIV/60077344:_____/21:00559281 RIV/60460709:41210/21:91112

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248804" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248804</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248804" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0248804</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The effects of first defoliation and previous management intensity on forage quality of a semi-natural species-rich grassland

Original language description

Semi-natural grasslands occupy large parts of the European landscape but little information exists about seasonal variations in their nutritive value during the growing season. This paper presents results of novel data showing the effect of 13 years of previous contrasting management intensities on herbage nutritional value in relation to different dates of first defoliation (by grazing or haymaking). The treatments were: extensive management and intensive management from previous years (1998-2011). Both treatments were cut in June followed by intensive/extensive grazing for the rest of the grazing season (July-October). To evaluate forage quality in the first defoliation date, biomass sampling was performed in the year 2012 for 23 weeks from May to mid-October, and in 2013 for seven weeks from May to mid-June. Sampling was performed from plots that were not under management during the sampling year. Previous extensive management was associated with significantly reduced forage quality for in vitro organic matter digestibility (IVOMD), crude protein, neutral detergent fibre, acid detergent fibre and reduced divalent cations (Ca, Mg) and Na during the first seven weeks of the grazing season and the forage was suitable only for beef cattle. Due to low forage IVOMD, the forage is suitable only for cattle maintenance or for low quality hay when the start of grazing was postponed from seven weeks of vegetative growth to 13 weeks, regardless of the previous intensity. Herbage harvested after 13 weeks of the grazing season was of very low quality and was unsuitable as a forage for cattle when it was the only source of feed. Agri-environmental payments are necessary to help agricultural utilisation to maintain semi-natural grasslands by compensating for deterioration of forage quality, not only for the postponement of the first defoliation (either as cutting or grazing) after mid-June, but also when extensive management is required.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000636359600025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85103573699