Site use of grazing cattle and sheep in a large-scale pasture landscape: A GPS/GIS assessment

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 54-67

  Putfarken, Dorothee ^a   Dengler, Jürgen ^a   Lehmann, Stephan ^a   Härdtle, Werner ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feeding electivity; Herbivore; Mixed species grazing; Nature conservation; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CATTLE; GIS; GPS; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; PASTURE; SHEEP; SITE SELECTION; VEGETATION TYPE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 41149126855     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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