Estabelecimento de leguminosas em pastagens de Brachiaria humidicola: varia??es sazonais de atributos do dossel vegetativo

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Roberta Cristiane
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/564
• topic: ?rea foliar; consorcia??o; ?ndice de cobertura vegetal; radia??o fotossinteticamente ativa; active radiation; leaf area; photosynthetically; plant cover index; Zootecnia

In the way to improve the agronomic indexes and animal science of acting in the pastures cultivated on State of Rio de Janeiro soils, it`s needing a deeper studies to evaluate the impact of forage legumes in those ecosystems introduction. Seeking to contribute in that direction, an experiment was installed aiming at research the effects with different introduction methods of forage legumes in a pasture forage grass in monoculture. The work hypothesis was the treatments of nature chemical or mechanical that reduces the growth in the established grass, will have favorable effects on the establishment and persistence forage legume. The work was accomplished in the experimental field of Forage study, in the Institute animal science, the Universidade Federal Rural of Rio de Janeiro, from November/2003 to Abril/2005. The studied forage legumes were estilosantes cv. Campo Grande and desm?dio (Desmodium ovalifolium Wall cv. Itabela), installed into grass pasture of Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweickt. The introduction methods compared were: i) herbicide (Glyphosate, 0,75%, V/L), one day before the planting; ii) with grass mechanical cut; iii) planting in furrows and; iv) prepare soil with use of harrowing, being used a design was a randomized block, with four repetitions. The growth of the forage legumes in the several swards formed after the installation of the treatments, it was accompanied through count of the plants number and plants height, frequency estimates, absolute and relative, of grass and legume in the sward, and the Index of Leaf Area. Together, they were made evaluations of interception photosynthetically active radiation and degree of covering of the sward mixed pasture. The contribution forage legume to the production forage mass, green and dry, was done through cuts, to the 157 and 430 days after seeding. The mixed with estilosantes cv. Campo Grande didn't prosper, due the failure in the germination and or plants emergency of the forage legume. In contrast, in the mixed case between the braqui?ria and the desm?dio specie, the initial hypothesis was confirmed fully, once all the introduction methods allowed the establishment and permanence forage legume in the grass pasture. Specifically, for this associate, it was ended that to foment a fast covering of the soil, the most suitable treatments are the harrowing and weeds (mechanical cut), while to harmonize his associate, protecting the persistence of both components, the plantings in furrow and herbicide use was the most interesting alternatives.