Ground cover in temperate native perennial grass pastures. II. relationship with herbage and litter mass

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 301-312

  Lodge, G M ^a   Murphy, S R ^a,b  

^a NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ground cover; Herbage mass; Litter mass; Native pastures; Total mass

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142083959     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ02017     Document Type: Article

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