Effect of vertebrate grazing on plant and insect community structure

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1047-1054

  Rambo, Jennie L ^a   Faeth, Stanley H ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAZING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032864919     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98504.x     Document Type: Article

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