Vegetation change after 65 years of grazing and grazing exclusion

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 574-582

  Courtois, Danielle R ^a   Perryman, Barry L ^b   Hussein, Hussein S ^b  

^a US Department of the Interior Bureau Land Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Exclosures; Herbivory effects; Succession

Indexed keywords

ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; GRAZING; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15944397974     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4004011     Document Type: Article

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