The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Feb/2002
João Ambrósio de Araújo Filho, Fabianno Cavalcante de Carvalho, Rasmo Garcia, Reginaldo Alves de Sousa
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982002000100002
The research was carried out at the Centro de Assessoria e Apoio aos Trabalhadores e Instituições Não-Governamentais, Alternativas (CAATINGA) in the Ouricuri county, state of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the period of 1989-1994, with the objective of comparing different practices of woody vegetation manipulation, as alternatives of sustainable pastoral management of caatinga and determining their viability to the small producers. Plots measuring 25 x 100 m had the woody vegetation submitted to the following experimental treatments: deforestation, thinning, thinning-lowering, lowering and […]
Keywords: deforestation; management; thinning-lowering; trees; understory