Isotopes, wool, and rangeland monitoring: Let the sheep do the sampling

Environmental Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 145-152

  Witt, G Bradd ^a   Moll, Eugene J ^a   Beeton, Robert J S ^a   Murray, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope ratios; Monitoring; Rangelands; Vegetation change; Wool

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ISOTOPES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

RANGELAND MONITORING;

WOOL;

CARBON;

DIET; GRAZING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; RANGELAND MONITORING; SHEEP; WOOL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DIET; ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SOUTH AFRICA; VEGETATION; WOOL;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

SHEEP; WOOL FIBRES;

EID: 0031963176     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900091     Document Type: Article

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