Two examples of application of ecological modeling to agricultural production: Extensive livestock farming and overyielding in grassland mixtures

Hugo Fort, Francisco Dieguez, Virginia Halty and Juan Manuel Soares Lima

Ecological Modelling, 2017, vol. 357, issue C, 23-34

Abstract: Livestock production plays an important role in guaranteeing food security worldwide and has an important contribution to the economy of many countries. Precision livestock production (PLP), or the manipulation of livestock activity taking into account the different components of agroecosystems −pastures, cattle and pasture-cattle interactions−, has acquired growing importance in recent years to optimize productivity. Regarding the pasture component, multi-species pasture mixtures are commonly used worldwide to increase primary productivity and thereby secondary productivity.

Keywords: Agriculture optimization; Lotka-Volterra models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.03.023

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