Potential herblayer production and grazing effects in anthropogenic savanna-grasslands in the moist tropical forests of the Western Ghats of India

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 574-587

  Lélé, Sharachchandra ^a,c   Hegde, Gurupada T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE   (India)

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