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Natural grasslands have a very large range of diversity both in terms of botanical composition, and with respect to edaphic and climatic conditions, in temperate and tropical regions. Moreover, grasslands are subjected to a wide variety of defoliation treatments according to management plans. This diversity of conditions leads to large temporal and spatial variations in sward structure: i.e., botanical composition, plant morphology and architecture, plant growth habits, which make it difficult to use a diagnosis of the sward state to predict either its growth potential or its ability to be grazed and to provide adequate feed for animals.
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Duru, M., Lemaire, G., Cruz, P. (1997). Grasslands. In: Lemaire, G. (eds) Diagnosis of the Nitrogen Status in Crops. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60684-7_3
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