Isabel Ferraz de Oliveira, de la Universidad de Évora, nos presenta el área de aprendizaje del Sitio de Monfurado, un área de montado o dehesa situada en el Alentejo central. Se trata de una zona Natura 2000 especialmente bien conservada, y que cuenta con gran diversidad de hábitats y de especies. La principal actividad económica es la producción de corcho y la ganadería extensiva, con el ganado vacuno en aumen...
High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) can be defined as “those areas in Europe where agriculture is a major land use and where that agriculture supports or is associated with either a high species and habitat diversity or the presence of species of European conservation concern, or both”. HNV-Link is an H2020 project that ultimately aims at improving the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of HNVf acros...
To combine efficient livestock farming with environmental conservation is nowadays an important societal challenge in face of the increased generalised loss of biodiversity. The extensive grazing systems frequently associate with High Nature Value farming areas are central to biodiversity management, particularly in Europe. In order to reverse this trend in biodiversity loss new solutions are needed. The result...
The precision agriculture approach can be used in grazing management. The underlying principle is the same, understanding the variability of a system components, in this case pasture and animals, in order to adapt supply to demand. And there is no more variable agricultural system than grazing systems. Preserving the dynamic balance among pasture and animals is always a challenge, and grazing livestock are freq...
The interactive relationship between society and science is one of the critical challenges of the modern construction of science. Two premises can be found in research aiming to be socially meaningful. The first premise is the involvement of enlarged peer communities for the co-construction of knowledge in order to enrich scientific research. The second premise is the acknowledgment of the central role of forms o...
Extensive grazing systems are an integrated combination of animals, soils, plants and procedures, used to address animal production in ever changing environments. Within extensive grazing systems livestock spatial distribution is a central issue, both for production and conservation objectives. The Portuguese silvopastoral Montado is a human shaped ecosystem characterized by an open tree canopy of Quercus. rotu...
Os n-alcanos presentes na cutícula das plantas têm sido utilizados com sucesso como marcadores fecais para a estimar a ingestão e a digestibilidade ~ dos alimentos em ruminantes. Em porcos, existem poucos trabalhos publicados referentes à utilização da técnica dos n-alcanos, particularmente em suínos de raça Alentejana. Este trabalho teve como objectivo a validação da técnica dos n-alcanos para a estimativa da ...