The Impacts of Grazing Animals on the Quality of Soils, Vegetation, and Surface Waters in Intensively Managed Grasslands

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 94, Issue , 2007, Pages 237-280

  Bilotta, G S ^a,b   Brazier, R E ^a   Haygarth, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33846348685     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2113(06)94006-1     Document Type: Review

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