Seasonal Changes of Nutritive Values and Digestibility of Range Forage of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran

Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and Rangeland

Gholamreza Shadnoush ¹ , Mohammad Hassan Jouri ² , Diana Askarizadeh ³ , Vahid Rahimi Kakroodi ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor of Ruminant Nutrition Department of Animal Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources Research Center of Shahrekord, Iran
2 - Assistant Prof., Nour Branch, Islamic Azad University, Nour, Mazandaran, Iran
3 - Ph.D. Student, Range Science, Natural Resources Faculty, Tehran University, Iran
4 - M.Sc. Student of Horticulture, Ornamental Plants, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Rasht, Gillan, Iran

Received: 2014-11-01 Accepted : 2014-12-21 Published : 2015-07-01

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