The use of pasture reflectance characteristics and arbuscular mycorrhizal root colonization to predict pasture characteristics of tallgrass prairie grazed by cattle and bison

Grass and Forage Science

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-41

  Villarreal, M ^a   Cochran, R C ^b   Johnson, D E ^b   Towne, E G ^b   Wilson, G W T ^b   Hartnett, D C ^b   Goodin, D G ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Bison; Cattle; Pasture characteristics; Reflectance methods; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; GRAZING; PASTURE; REFLECTANCE; ROOT COLONIZATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BISON; BOS TAURUS; FUNGI;

EID: 33645125030     PISSN: 01425242     EISSN: 13652494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2494.2006.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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