Effects of sown grasses and stocking rates on pasture and animal production from legume-based pastures in the seasonally dry tropics

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-150

  Jones, R J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNANTHERA; ANIMALIA; BOTHRIOCHLOA PERTUSA; CHLORIS GAYANA; MACROPTILIUM ATROPURPUREUM; POACEAE; STYLOSANTHES HAMATA; STYLOSANTHES VISCOSA; UROCHLOA MOSAMBICENSIS;

EID: 0242307207     PISSN: 00494763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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