Effects of herbage mass and herbage quality on spatially heterogeneous grazing by cattle in a bahia grass (Paspalum notatum) pasture

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 172-179

  Ogura, S ^a   Hasegawa, H ^a   Hirata, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

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PASPALUM NOTATUM;

EID: 0036758331     PISSN: 00494763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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