Nitrogen cycling in Brachiaria pastures: the key to understanding the process of pasture decline

By R. Boddey, R. Macedo, R. Tarré, E. Ferreira, O. C. Oliveira, C. P. D. Rezende, R. B. Cantarutti, J. M. Pereira, B. Alves, S. Urquiaga. 2004

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Performance of dairy heifers in a silvopastoral system (2011, background): “themselves in the process of degradation soon after establishment due to problems arising from incorrect management associated with reduced soil fertility (Boddey et al., 2004).”
LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics * (2015, unknown): “In grazed systems, losses are small, although redistribution of N within pure grass pastures becomes important at high stocking rates (Boddey et al. 2004).”
Crescimento de capim-braquiária influenciado pelo grau de sombreamento e pela estação do ano (2008, background): “Introdução No Brasil, as pastagens cultivadas com gramíneas tiveram grande expansão entre as décadas de 1970 e 1990, principalmente com o plantio de espécies do gênero Brachiaria, com predominância de B. decumbens e B. brizantha (Boddey et al., 2004).”
Chemical and biological indicators of decline/degradation of Brachiaria pastures in the Brazilian Cerrado (2004, background): “Recent studies on nutrient cycling in grazed Brachiaria pastures indicate that pasture decline is principally associated with a lack of maintenance fertilisation with P and K, and over-stocking, which leads to high proportions of nutrients being cycled through the animal rather than via senescent pl”