Does cattle grazing facilitate or hinder the recruitment of podocarps in floodplain forest patches, south Westland, New Zealand?

Ecological Management and Restoration

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-233

  Miller, Craig ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Forest fragments; Podocarps; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; GRAZING; RECRUITMENT; REGENERATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33750696053     PISSN: 14427001     EISSN: 14428903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-8903.2006.312_5.x     Document Type: Article

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