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Impact of Year-Round Grazing by Horses on Pasture Nutrient Dynamics and the Correlation with Pasture Nutrient Content and Fecal Nutrient Composition

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Horse grazing may benefit biodiversity. This study compared the effect of horses grazing year-round to that of mowing on pasture quality in a forest-grassland landscape in Sweden. Twelve Gotlandsruss stallions were kept in three enclosures (~0.35 horse/hectare) without supplementary...

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Autores principales: Ringmark, Sara, Skarin, Anna, Jansson, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31362460
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9080500