Nutritive value of winter-collected annual twigs of main European woody species, mistletoe and ivy and its possible consequences for winter foddering of livestock in prehistory

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 659-667

  Hejcman, Michal ^a   Hejcmanová, Pavla ^a   Stejskalová, Michaela ^a   Pavlů, Vilém ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

agricultural history; forage quality; Hedera helix; livestock feeding; prehistory; Viscum album; year round forest grazing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; BIOMASS; CATTLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; FODDER; FORAGE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; NITROGEN; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PARASITIC PLANT; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; PREHISTORIC; SENESCENCE; WINTER;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84901029578     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614526904     Document Type: Article

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