Influence of climate variability on the potential forage production of a mown permanent grassland in the French Massif Central

Dynamic simulation of management events for assessing impacts of climate change on pre-alpine grassland productivity

“…With this approach, scheduled cutting events are coupled to plant growth by triggering a cut after a minimum of 30 days of regrowth and declining plant growth rates during 10 consecutive days. This was widely used to automatically derive management operations for site and regional simulations ( Chang et al, 2015 ; Gómara et al, 2020 ; Vuichard et al, 2007 ), and within regional climate change assessment studies ( Chang et al, 2017 ). So far these studies applied a rather coarse validation scheme by comparing simulated yields with data from Europe wide yield databases ( Chang et al, 2015 ; Vuichard et al, 2007 ; Rolinski et al, 2018 ).…”

“…Modelling studies can help to assess the influence of different management practices, agricultural adaptions ( Gómara et al, 2020 ; Sándor et al, 2018 ) and future climate changes on the above mentioned key grassland functions by executing long-term climate change scenario simulations ( Chang et al, 2017 ; De Bruijn et al, 2012 ; Graux et al, 2013 ; Höglind et al, 2013 ; Kipling et al, 2016 ; Owen et al, 2015 ). The response of grassland productivity and functional diversity to climate change is complex as it implies interactions of weather with soil water and nutrient availability as well as execution of management routines.…”

“…It triggers a cut after a minimum of 30 days of regrowth and declining plant growth rates during 10 consecutive days. This approach was adopted for regional simulations by Chang et al (2015) , single site simulations by Gómara et al (2020) and even for regional climate change assessments ( Chang et al, 2017 ). Another relatively simplistic mechanism for regional simulations was developed by Rolinski et al (2018) with the dynamic global vegetation model Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL).…”

Strategy for Adaptation of Forage Crops to Climate Change

“…Respon tanaman terhadap stress kekeringan tergantung pada lamanya terpapar stress, tahapan perkembangan tanaman, potensi genetik dan lingkungan sekitarnya (Zargar et al 2017). Beberapa langkah yang dapat dilakukan adalah dengan menyesuaikan jadwal pemotongan rumput, stocking rate, pengairan, pemupukan dam skema produksi lainnya (Gómara et al 2020).…”

Biochar and nitrogen application rates alter some forage and soil minerals concentrations and soil leachate quality in a semiarid mixed grassland system

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Forages form the basal diet of herbivorous grazing livestock and play a vital role not only in their sustenance but also in the production of quality products in the form of meat and milk for human consumption globally (Gómara et al, 2020). Over the past two decades, there has been a substantial consumer demand for grass-fed beef, and this has been attributed to the improved fatty acids composition and antioxidant content of grass-fed relative to grain-fed beef (Daley et al, 2010).

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