Long-term impacts of livestock herbivory on herbaceous and woody vegetation in semiarid savannas

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-23

  Weber, Gerhard E ^a,b   Jeltsch, Florian ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degradation; Savanna vegetation; Semiarid rangelands; Shrub encroachment; Ungulate herbivory

Indexed keywords

UNGULATA;

EID: 0002935666     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00002     Document Type: Article

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