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Projeto SUMO: Sustentabilidade do Montado - Uma abordagem multidisciplinar ao e...

O projeto “SUMO: Sustentabilidade do Montado” pretende contribuir para o conhecimento e valorização do ecossistema Montado e tem como foco principal a produção animal e a sua compatibilização com a manutenção e promoção da biodiversidade vegetal, animal e micológica, no sentido de promover uma produção agropecuária sustentável e resiliente. O projeto SUMO envolve 15 parceiros entre os quais duas Instituições de...

Pastoreio em Floresta - Oportunidade de produção diferenciada e ferramenta de g...

Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex si...

s shown by the Green Deal's ambition, the European Commission is progressively pushing for an environmental shiftand climate action in Europe. For the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), this involves a stronger focus on greening policy objectives.For agri-environmental schemes, this entails changes toward performance-based payments, partially replacing traditional activity-basedpayments. The CAP foresees greater...

Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a r...

The Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar landscape, the Dehesa, covers ca. three million hectares in Spain. These silvopastoral systems can simultaneously benefit the environment and socio-economic activities by pr...

Characterization of grazing behaviour microstructure using point-of-view cameras

Grazing patterns, intake structure, and diet selection are dynamic responses to animals’ feeding environment. This study uses video sequences from animal-borne cameras to capture time- and scale-dependent grazing behaviour variables related to sward explanatory conditions. We observed grazing ‘through’ the sheep’s eyes using point-of-view (POV) cameras coupled with event logging software. Time-specific sward fe...

Grazing in silvopastoral systems: multiple solutions for diversified benefits

Abstract Silvopastoral systems are multifunctional systems that combine herbage, shrub and tree layers with grazing animals in a single site. The multiple possible combinations of components within these systems creates different options that have in common the capacity to deliver positive outcomes related to land productivity and environmental and climatic benefits. This editorial provides a perspective of the...

Use of point of view cameras for welfare management in extensive grazing systems

Grazing patterns can be a major indicator for welfare assessment in extensive systems. The aim of this study was to test animal-borne video as a method to evaluate sheep grazing behavior. To test the changes in grazing duration, grazing frequency and grazing rate, we used wide angle cameras (Go-Pro and infra-red night vision) to access diurnal and nocturnal grazing activities of ewes in a native sward, during t...

Pastor.i _ Uma aplicação de smartphone para facilitar a gestão do pastoreio

Grazing in extensive beef farming systems is often manage in an empirical way based on past experience and on the visual appreciation of animal behavior and forage potential. Records of entrances and exits of the animals in the paddocks in a regular basis are rare. However, knowing the occupation period and the animal density, when coupled with biomass defines the grazing pressure and carry capacity. This knowl...

Tecnologia GNSS de baixo custo na monitorização de ovinos em pastoreio

As pastagens naturais e biodiversas que suportam a pecuária extensiva são caracterizadas por marcada variação da biomassa das espécies botânicas presentes, e do seu estado fenológico ao longo das estações do ano. Nestas circunstâncias, a utilização do alimento e a ocupação do espaço da pastagem podem ser muito heterogéneas devido, entre outras causas, ao comportamento de pastoreio dos ruminantes. Uma gestão efi...

Can digital camera images provide useful information for pasture management?

Introduction The assessment of availability and nutritional quality of Mediterranean native pastures is a major challenge. Being multi-species they also present plant communities of high heterogeneity both in the vertical and horizontal planes. Pasture structure also changes along season as different plant species with different phenology mature. Therefore, frequent data collection with non-destructive methods,...