Grazing effects on herbage mass and composition in grass-birdsfoot trefoil mixtures

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1257-1262

  Leep, Richard ^a   Jeranyama, Peter ^b   Min, Doo Hong ^a   Dietz, Timothy ^a   Bughrara, Suleiman ^a   Isleib, James ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BIODIVERSITY; CROPS;

STOCKING SYSTEMS;

AGRONOMY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS; BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS; BROMUS SECALINUS; DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; LOTUS; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; ORNITHOPUS PERPUSILLUS; PHLEUM PRATENSE; POACEAE; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS;

EID: 2242440843     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2002.1257     Document Type: Article

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