Claim · model-written summary
Summer tiller density and forage mass and bulk density were lower in the silvopastoral system.
- Taxon
- Brachiaria decumbens
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Urochloa decumbenst0 - Treatment
- SPSe0
- Outcome
- tiller population density, total and green forage mass, and total and green forage bulk densitye0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Qualifier
- in the summere0
- Comparator
- OPe0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“There was reduction in the tiller population density, total and green forage mass, and total and green forage bulk density in the SPS when compared to the OP in the summer.”
t0“Brachiaria decumbens”
Title
Marina A. Lima; Domingos S. C. Paciullo; Mirton J. F. Morenz; et al. Grass and Forage Science 2018. doi:10.1111/gfs.12395
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