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Trees and shrubs as sources of fodder in Australia
Citation
Lefroy, EC and Dann, PR and Wildin, JH and Wesley-Smith, RN and McGowan, AA, Trees and shrubs as sources of fodder in Australia, Agroforestry Systems, 20, (1-2) pp. 117-139. ISSN 0167-4366 (1992) [Refereed Article]
Abstract
Experience with browse plants in Australia is briefly reviewed in terms of their forage value to animals, their economic value to the landholder and their ecological contribution to landscape stability. Of the cultivated species only two have achieved any degree of commercial acceptance (Leucaena leucocephala and Chamaecytisus palmensis). Both of these are of sufficiently high forage value to be used as the sole source of feed during seasonal periods of nutritional shortage. Both are also leguminous shrubs that establish readily from seed. It is suggested that a limitation in their present use is the reliance on stands of single species which leaves these grazing systems vulnerable to disease and insects. Grazing systems so far developed for high production and persistence of cultivated species involve short periods of intense grazing followed by long periods of recovery. Similar management may be necessary in the arid and semi-arid rangelands where palatable browse species are in decline. © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Plant biology |
Research Field: | Plant biology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Plant Production and Plant Primary Products |
Objective Group: | Other plant production and plant primary products |
Objective Field: | Other plant production and plant primary products not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Lefroy, EC (Professor Ted Lefroy) |
ID Code: | 46566 |
Year Published: | 1992 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 39 |
Deposited By: | Centre for Environment |
Deposited On: | 2007-08-27 |
Last Modified: | 2011-08-30 |
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