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Sheep excreta as source of nitrous oxide in ryegrass pasture in Southern Brazil.
Get PDFABSTRACT Livestock urine and dung are important components of the N cycle in pastures, but little information on its effect on soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions is available. We conducted a short-term (39-day) trial to quantify the direct N2O-N emissions from sheep excreta on an experimental area of ryegrass pasture growing on a Typic Paleudult in southern Brazil. Four rates of urine-N (161, 242, 323, and 403 kg ha-1 N) and one of dung-N (13 kg ha-1 N) were applied, as well as a control plot receiving no excreta. The N2O-N emission factor (EF = % of added N released as N2O-N) for urine and dung was calculated, taking into account the N2O fluxes in the field, over a period of 39 days. The EF value of the urine and dung was used to estimate the emissions of N2O-N over a 90-day period of pasture in the winter under two grazing intensities (2.5 or 5.0 times the herbage intake potential of grazing lambs). The soil N2O-N fluxes ranged from 4 to 353 µg m-2h-1. The highest N2O-N fluxes occurred 16 days after application of urine and dung, when the highest soil nitrate content was also recorded and the water-filled pore space exceeded 60 %. The mean EF for urine was 0.25 % of applied N, much higher than that for dung (0.06 %). We found that N2O-N emissions for the 90-day winter pasture period were 0.54 kg ha-1 for low grazing intensity and 0.62 kg ha-1 for moderate grazing intensity. Comparison of the two forms of excreta show that urine was the main contributor to N2O-N emissions (mean of 36 %), whereas dung was responsible for less than 0.1 % of total soil N2O-N emissions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and nutrient cycling in a long-term no-tillage integration soybean-beef cattle system
No full textSistemas integrados de produção agrícola e pecuária estão sendo cada vez mais adotados no país e existe um grande potencial, no subtrópico brasileiro, de integrar a pecuária nas grandes extensões de pastagens hibernais cultivadas, antecedendo lavouras de verão, como soja e milho. Nesses sistemas, enquanto o animal é considerado o elemento catalizador e o solo é o compartimento que centraliza e captura as modificações impostas pelo manejo. Neste estudo, investigou-se um sistema com produção de soja-bovinos de corte, em um consórcio de azevém + aveia preta, manejada em diferentes alturas de pastejo (10, 20, 30, 40 cm) e uma área sem pastejo. O experimento foi instalado em maio de 2001, em São Miguel das Missões - RS, em Latossolo Vermelho distroférrico, em sistema plantio direto. Foram abordados aspectos relacionados aos impactos do manejo do sistema sobre os teores e os estoques de carbono e nitrogênio após nove anos da instalação do experimento. Também foi estudada a cinética de liberação de carbono, nitrogênio, fósforo, potássio, cálcio e magnésio, em dois ciclos pastejo-soja (2009/11), a partir da decomposição dos resíduos vegetais, em sacos de decomposição (litter bags). Intensidades de pastejo moderadas a leve (20, 30 e 40 cm de altura do pasto) promoveram aumento nos teores e estoques de carbono orgânico e nitrogênio, total e particulado, semelhantemente ao observado na área sem pastejo. Valores do índice de manejo de carbono (IMC), em comparação com os da área tomada como referência (mata nativa e SP), indicam alta degradação da qualidade da matéria orgânica na maior intensidade de manejo (10 cm). A velocidade da ciclagem dos nutrientes foi maior nas intensidades moderadas de pastejo (20 e 30 cm), tanto dos resíduos da pastagem como do esterco. A decomposição dos resíduos da soja, cultivada na sequência, não foi afetada pelo manejo do pasto. As folhas apresentaram uma decomposição mais rápida, e consequente liberação mais rápida de nutrientes, em relação aos caules. A quantidade de nutrientes liberados dos resíduos em um ciclo pastejo-soja é suficiente em relação à demanda das plantas (pastagem e soja) e, majoritariamente, determinada pelos resíduos do pastejo (pasto + esterco), que foram maiores nas áreas com pastejo leve e nas áreas sem pastejo.Integrated crop-livestock systems are lately being increasingly used in the country, and there is a great utilization potential in brazilian subtropic region, by integrating catlle production in a large area covered by winter pastures, preceeding summer crops, mostly soybean and corn. The animal, in such systems, is considered the catalizing agent, while the soil is the compartment that captures all the modifications imposed by animal and pasture management This research investigated a soybean-cattle system in a pasture mixture (ryegrass + black oat), managed at different plant heights (10, 20, 30 and 40 cm) and no grazed areas. The experiment was established in May, 2001, in São Miguel das Missões county, Rio Grande do Sul state – Brazil, in a clayey Hapludox, under no-tillage system. The impacts of the integrated system management in total and particulated fractions of carbon and nitrogen were studied nine years after the experiment started. Nutrient (carbon. nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium) cycling was also studied in two soybean-livestock cycles (2009/11), by plant and animal residue decomposition in litter bags. Moderately and light (20 and 30 and 40 cm plant height, respectively) pasture pressure resulted in similar increase of total and particulated carbon and nitrogen stocks and contents, as found in no-grazed area. Carbon managements indexes (CMI), as compared with the reference areas, indicated high degradation of organic matter quality under the most instensive grazing intensity (10 cm of pasture height). Nutrient cycling was higher in moderately grazing (20 and 30 cm pastures height), for pasture and cattle residues. Soybean residue decomposition was not affected by pasture and cattle management; however soybean leaves were more readily decomposed, and in this way, fastly release nutrients, as compared with stem decomposition. The amount of released nutrients in a soybean-cattle cycle is high as compared with plants (pasture and soybean) requirement for high yields and mostly determined by cattle and pasture residues that were higher under light and no grazing intensities, due to higher residue production
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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