The erosional impacts of grazing animals

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 251-268

  Evans, R ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/030913339802200206     Document Type: Article

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