Field Handbook of Xerophytic Woody Legumes
Foreword
Today we could share a diversity of images and characteristics of Tropical Xerophytic Woody Legumes. Present in the Very Dry, Semi-arid and Arid Tropical Forest; of American origin and in various phenological stages; as well as the nutritional and anti-nutritional composition of its plant parts in different physiological stages (phenology). In order to serve as support to agricultural farmers with herbivores for their recognition, protection and propagation in Agroforestry and Silvopastoral Systems, as a way of supplying forage, pods, wood, organic matter and protection of local biodiversity, adapted to soils and rainfall. , capable of growing without irrigation under various conditions of management, harvest and rotation to grazing or for conservation.
Gustavo Nouel Borges