Tools for diversity: Fire, grazing and mowing on tallgrass prairies

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 136-143

  Davison, Coleen ^a   Kindscher, Kelly ^b  

^a USDA NRCS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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