Do pasture-scale nutritional patterns affect cattle distribution on rangelands?

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-196

  Ganskopp, Dave ^a   Bohnert, Dave ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crested wheatgrass; Diet quality; Forage conditioning; Grazing behavior; Range management

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD QUALITY; GPS; GRAZING; NUTRITION; PASTURE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGELAND; TRACKING;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; AGROPYRON DESERTORUM; BOS TAURUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 33749163976     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/04-152R1.1     Document Type: Article

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