The long-term bioeconomic impacts of grazing on plant succession in a rangeland ecosystem

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 59-73

  Cooper, Kevin ^a   Huffaker, Ray ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Livestock grazing economics; Plant succession; Successional threshold

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; LIVESTOCK; RANGELAND; SUCCESSIONAL THRESHOLD;

POACEAE;

EID: 0030617660     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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