Improving the monitoring of rangelands

Rangelands

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 9-14

  West, Neil E ^a   Smith, E Lamar ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND MANAGEMENT; RANGELAND;

EID: 0031400374     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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