Comparison of nutritive values of tropical pasture species grown in different environments, and implications for livestock methane production: a meta-analysis

P Jayasinghe, T Ramilan, DJ Donaghy, KG Pembleton… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Globally, tropical pasture species predominate in tropical and subtropical
climates, and are the primary feed source for grazing livestock including dairy cattle …

Nutritional Evaluation of Tropical Forage Grass Alone and Grass-Legume Diets to Reduce in vitro Methane Production

S Quintero-Anzueta, IC Molina-Botero… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Forage grass nutritional quality directly affects animal feed intake, productivity, and enteric
methane (CH4) emissions. This study evaluated the nutritional quality, in vitro enteric CH4 …

Methane emission of Blackbelly rams consuming whole sugarcane forage compared with Dichanthium sp. hay

H Archimède, C Martin, F Périacarpin… - Animal Feed Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Dietary strategies are options to mitigate enteric methane from ruminants. This trial has been
performed to estimate the production of methane with a sugar-rich forage versus a high-fibre …

Seasonal Effect of Grass Nutritional Value on Enteric Methane Emission in Islands Pasture Systems

HPB Nunes, CSAM Maduro Dias, CM Vouzela… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This study investigates the impact of seasonality on enteric methane
emissions in islands with pasture systems, focusing on the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on …

Using highly nutritious pastures to mitigate enteric methane emissions from cattle grazing systems in South America

Y Dini, JI Gere, C Cajarville… - Animal Production …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Enteric methane (CH4) emissions are directly related to the quantity and type of feed intake.
Existing mitigation strategies, for example, the addition of legumes to grass-based diets and …

[PDF][PDF] Nutritive value, fiber digestibility and methane production potential of tropical forages in rabbits: effect of species and harvest maturity.

S Khan, S Ullah, NA Khan, I Khan… - JAPS: Journal of Animal …, 2017 - thejaps.org.pk
The aim of this study was to quantify the nutrient composition, neutral detergent fibre (NDF)
digestibility (in vitro) and methane (CH4) emission potential of commonly used tropical …

Strategies for enteric methane mitigation in cattle fed tropical forages

JC Ku-Vera, OA Castelán-Ortega… - Animal, 2020 - cambridge.org
Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas (GHG) produced and released by eructation to the
atmosphere in large volumes by ruminants. Enteric CH4 contributes significantly to global …

Nutritional Quality, Voluntary Intake and Enteric Methane Emissions of Diets Based on Novel Cayman Grass and Its Associations With Two Leucaena Shrub Legumes

X Gaviria-Uribe, DM Bolivar, TS Rosenstock… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Methane (CH4) emissions from enteric fermentation in cattle are an important source of
greenhouse gases, accounting for about 40% of all agricultural emissions. Diet quality plays …

Does grazing management provide opportunities to mitigate methane emissions by ruminants in pastoral ecosystems?

ÁS Zubieta, JV Savian, W de Souza Filho… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agriculture, and livestock production in particular, is criticized for being a contributor to
global environmental change, including emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Methane …

In vitro evaluation, in vivo quantification, and microbial diversity studies of nutritional strategies for reducing enteric methane production

AL Abdalla, H Louvandini, SMAH Sallam… - Tropical Animal Health …, 2012 - Springer
The main objective of the present work was to study nutritive strategies for lessening the CH
4 formation associated to ruminant tropical diets. In vitro gas production technique was used …