In a pasture-based livestock system, canopy light interception (LI) is the first process in a sequence of events that results in forage production (Parsons, Leafe, Collett, & Stiles, 1983). In mixed pastures that involve the growth of two or more species (grasses and legumes (i.e., vegetation community; Allen et al., 2011), the incident light is distributed along canopy composed by species with different leaf architecture, and leaf proportion ranging across the year (Gomes
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