• Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions 

      Chirinda, Ngonidzashe; Loaiza, Sandra; Arenas, Laura; Ruiz, Veronica; Faverin, Claudia; Alvarez, Carolina; Savian, Jean Víctor; Belfon, Renaldo; Zuniga, Karen; Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto; Trujillo, Catalina; Arango, Miguel; Rao, Idupulapati; Arango, Jacobo; Peters, Michael; Barahona, Rolando; Costa, Ciniro; Rosenstock, Todd; Richards, Meryl; Martinez Baron, Deissy; Cardenas, Laura (Nature Publishing, 2019-01-29)
      A decline in pasture productivity is often associated with a reduction in vegetative cover. We hypothesize that nitrogen (N) in urine deposited by grazing cattle on degraded pastures, with low vegetative cover, is highly ...
    • Improving the accuracy of beef cattle methane inventories in Latin America and Caribbean countries 

      Congio, Guilhermo F.S.; Bannink, André; Mayorga, Olga L.; Rodrigues, João P. P.; Bougouin, Adeline; Kebreab, Ermias; Carvalho, Paulo C.F.; Berchielli, Telma T.; Mercadante, Maria E.Z.; Valadares-Filho, Sebastião C.; Borges, Ana L. C.C.; Berndt, Alexandre; Rodrigues, Paulo H.M.; Ku-Vera, Juan C.; Molina-Botero, Isabel C.; Arango, Jacobo; Reis, Ricardo A.; Posada-Ochoa, Sandra L.; Tomich, Thierry R.; Castelán-Ortega, Octavio A.; Marcondes, Marcos I.; Gómez, Carlos; Ribeiro-Filho, Henrique M.N.; Gere, Jose Ignacio; Ariza-Nieto, Claudia; Giraldo, Luis A.; Gonda, Horacio; Ceron Cucchi, Maria Esperanza; Hernandez, Olegario; Ricci, Patricia; Hristov, Alexander N. (Elsevier, 2023-01)
      On-farm methane (CH4) emissions need to be estimated accurately so that the mitigation effect of recommended practices can be accounted for. In the present study prediction equations for enteric CH4 have been developed in ...