Vegetation cover and forb responses to cattle exclusion: Implications for pronghorn

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 234-238

  Loeser, Matthew R ^a   Mezulis, Sharon D ^a   Sisk, Thomas D ^a   Theimer, Tad C ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona grassland; Grazing; Horizontal cover; Plant composition; Plant cover; Semiarid grassland

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; GRAZING; VEGETATION COVER;

ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 22744457179     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2005)58[234:VCAFRT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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