Determining the pre-grazing sward height of Kikuyu grass (Cenchrus clandestinus - Hochst. ex Chiov.) for optimizing nutrient intake rate of dairy heifers

• Alejandra Marín Gómez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: amaring@unal.edu.co

  Affiliations Grazing Ecology Research Group, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1083-6405

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• Emilio A. Laca,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Tiago Celso Baldissera,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (Epagri), Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-7497

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• Cassiano Eduardo Pinto,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (Epagri), Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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• Fábio Cervo Garagorry,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (Epagri), Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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• Angel S. Zubieta,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grazing Ecology Research Group, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Carolina Bremm,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Grazing Ecology Research Group, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7612-2771

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• Jerôme Bindelle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Precision Livestock and Nutrition Unit, AgricultureIsLife, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Liège University, Gembloux, Belgium

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• Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grazing Ecology Research Group, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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