干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): The fodder grass resources for ruminants: A indigenous treasure of local communities of Thal desert Punjab, Pakistan

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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0224061
	The fodder grass resources for ruminants: A indigenous treasure of local communities of Thal desert Punjab, Pakistan
	Shaheen, Humaira 1,2; Qureshi, Rahmatuallah 3; Qaseem, Mirza Faisal 4,5; Bruschi, Piero 6
通讯作者	Shaheen, Humaira
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2020
卷号	15 期号:3
英文摘要	Indigenous people have been using local grasses for rearing their animals for centuries. The present study is the first record of traditional knowledge of grasses and livestock feeding system from the Thal desert in Pakistan. A snowball sampling method was used to identify key participants. Information was collected from the respondents from six districts of Thal Desert through semi-structural questionnaire and site visits. The data was analyzed through Smith's salience index and Composite Salience using ANTHROPAC package in R software. On the whole 61 grasses were recorded from the study area: most of them belong to the Poaceae family (52 species). Based on palatability grasses were categorized into three major groups i.e. (A) High priority, (B) Medium priority and (C) Low priority. Species in Group A, abundantly present in the study area represent a source of highly palatable forage for all ruminants. 232 (141M +91W) local participants were interviewed. Participants were grouped into three major age categories: 20-35 (48 participants), 36-50 (116 participants) and 51-67 years old (68 participants). ANTHROPAC frequency analysis confirmed the Smith's salience index and Composite Salience; Cynodon dactylon was the favorite species (6.46 SI, 0.6460 CS) followed by Cymbopogon jwarancusa (5.133 SI, 0.5133 CS) and Sorghum sp. was the third most salient species (5.121 SI, 0.5121 CS). Grasses were mostly available during the months of August and October and had also ethnoveterinary importance. This document about the traditional feeding of livestock in Thal Desert can underline the importance of conserving a traditional knowledge, which was poorly documented before.
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Pakistan ; Peoples R China ; Italy
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000535265600007
WOS关键词	TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ; MEDICINAL-PLANTS ; RANGELANDS ; LIVESTOCK ; PROVINCE
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/318541
作者单位	1.COMSATS Univ Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan; 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Digital Bot Garden Guangdong Prov, South China Bot Garden, Key Lab Plant Resources Conservat & Sustainable U, Guangzhou, Peoples R China; 3.Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agr Univ Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan; 4.State Key Lab Conservat & Utilizat Subtrop Agrobi, Guangzhou, Peoples R China; 5.South China Agr Univ, Coll Forestry & Landscape Architectures, Guangdong Key Lab Innovat Dev & Utilizat Forest P, Guangzhou, Peoples R China; 6.Univ Florence, Dept Agr Environm Food & Forestry Sci DAGRI, Florence, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shaheen, Humaira,Qureshi, Rahmatuallah,Qaseem, Mirza Faisal,et al. The fodder grass resources for ruminants: A indigenous treasure of local communities of Thal desert Punjab, Pakistan[J],2020,15(3).
APA	Shaheen, Humaira,Qureshi, Rahmatuallah,Qaseem, Mirza Faisal,&Bruschi, Piero.(2020).The fodder grass resources for ruminants: A indigenous treasure of local communities of Thal desert Punjab, Pakistan.PLOS ONE,15(3).
MLA	Shaheen, Humaira,et al."The fodder grass resources for ruminants: A indigenous treasure of local communities of Thal desert Punjab, Pakistan".PLOS ONE 15.3(2020).