Estimation of herbage mass in a bahia grass (Paspalum notatum) and a centipede grass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) pasture using a capacitance probe, a sward stick and a rising plate

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-30

  Ogura, S ^a,b   Nagatomo, Y ^a   Hirata, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EREMOCHLOA; EREMOCHLOA OPHIUROIDES; PASPALUM; PASPALUM NOTATUM;

EID: 24644498138     PISSN: 00494763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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