Effects of 20 years of grazing exclusion in an area of the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 333-341

  Lenzi Grillini, Carlo R ^a   Viskanic, Paolo ^a,c   Mapesa, Moses ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Uganda Institute of Ecology   (Uganda)

^c NONE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

biodiversity; exclusion; grazing; monitoring; thicket clumps

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LARGE HERBIVORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

UGANDA, QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK;

CAPPARACEAE; CAPPARIS TOMENTOSA; POACEAE; SPOROBOLUS PYRAMIDALIS;

EID: 0030301343     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.1996.tb00629.x     Document Type: Article

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