Advances in environmental management in grasslands soils

• Grant number: 19/04991-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: July 15, 2019
• End date: July 29, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Pastures and Forage Crops
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Andrade Reis
• Grantee: Ricardo Andrade Reis
• Visiting researcher: Maria Lucia Silveira
• Visiting researcher institution: University of Florida, Ona (UF), United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/16631-5 - Management strategies to reduce environmental impacts of beef cattle production systems, AP.PFPMCG.TEM

Abstract

Pasture ecosystems are complex systems involving interactions in soil-plant-animal and atmosphere. Soil is the basis of the animal production system. The nutrients needed for plant growth are provided by soil and numerous gaseous exchanges between pasture soils occur such as the production of methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. During the visit will discuss the results of 8 years of research in the field of climate change and nutrient cycling in pastoral ecosystems. The interaction will result in new research projects and high-level publications. (AU)