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| Provedor de dados: |
Animal Sciences
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Indicators of land use by cattle: associations among methods and role of environmental factors
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| Autores: |
Costa, Mateus José Rodrigues Paranhos da
Páscoa, Adriano Gomes
Sant'Anna, Aline Cristina
Silva, Lívia Carolina Magalhães
Jung, Jens
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| Data: |
2017-09-22
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| Ano: |
2017
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| Palavras-chave: |
Zootecnia
Ecologia dos Animais Domésticos e Etologia beef cattle
Tracks dung pats
Spatial statistical analysis
Geographic information system.
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| Resumo: |
The objectives of this study were to investigate the associations among direct and indirect indicators of land use by cattle and to understand the role of some environmental factors on the definition of these indicators. The study was carried out in two areas, Nature Reserve (63.6 ha) and Private Area (30.4 ha), with 53 Hereford animals in each area. Daytime observations of animals’ location were used as direct indicator of land use; while cattle track and dung pat distributions throughout the areas were used as indirect indicators. Environmental characteristics recorded were: terrain slope, prevalence of woody vegetation cover (forests, isolated tress and open grasslands), as well as the position of fences, water sources and salt blocks. Spatial correlations among the three indicators of land use were low (r < 0.30). The environmental factors had lower predictive power of animals’ sightings distribution, followed by cattle tracks, and the highest predictive power occurred for dung pat distribution. We concluded that each one of the methods evaluated in this study addresses a different aspect of land use by cattle. The environmental factors assessed were useful to predict the dung pat distribution, but less valuable to predict the cattle tracks and animals’ sightings distributions.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/view/35426
10.4025/actascianimsci.v39i4.35426
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| Editor: |
Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maringá
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| Relação: |
http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/view/35426/pdf
http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/downloadSuppFile/35426/14255
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| Formato: |
application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences; v. 39, n. 4 (2017); 409-418
Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences; v. 39, n. 4 (2017); 409-418
1807-8672
1806-2636
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| Direitos: |
Direitos autorais 2017 Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences
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