Contributors; Preface; 1 Sustainability of Grazing Systems: Goals, Concepts and Methods; 2 Effects of Nitrogen and Water Supply on N and C Fluxes and Partitioning in Defoliated Swards; 3 An Integrated View of C and N Uses in Leaf Growth Zones of Defoliated Grasses; 4 Effects of Grazing on the Roots and Rhizosphere of Grasses; 5 Reserve Formation and Recycling of Carbon and Nitrogen during Regrowth of Defoliated Plants; 6 Shoot Morphological Plasticity of Grasses: Leaf Growth vs. Tillering; 7 Tiller Dynamics of Grazed Swards
Summary
This text presents edited key papers from the International Symposium on Grassland Ecophyisiology and Grazing Ecology held in Curitiba, Brazil in August 1999. It considers how plants within grasslands respond to and are adapted to grazing animals
