Sheep grazing and plant cover dynamics of a shadscale community

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 214-222

  Alzérreca Angelo, Humberto ^a,b   Schupp, Eugene W ^b   Kitchen, Stanley G ^c  

^a Utah State University ^*  (Bolivia)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia spinescens; Atriplex confertifolia; Ceratoides lanata; Climate; Hilaria jamesii; Oryzopsis hymenoides; Sporobolus cryptandrus; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COMMUNITY SHADSCALE; GRAZING; PLANT COVER; PLANT TRAIT;

USA; UTAH;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ACHNATHERUM HYMENOIDES; AMARANTHACEAE; ANIMALIA; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA SPINESCENS; ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX CONFERTIFOLIA; CERATOIDES; CHENOPODIACEAE; HILARIA; KRASCHENINNIKOVIA LANATA; LANATA; ORYZOPSIS; OVIS ARIES; PLEURAPHIS JAMESII; SPOROBOLUS CRYPTANDRUS;

EID: 2642606986     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003210     Document Type: Article

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