Seasonal variation of chemical composition and dry matter digestibility of rangelands in nw Greece

Journal of Central European Agriculture

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 547-555

  Mountousis, Ioannis ^a,c   Papanikolaou, K ^b   Stanogias, G ^a   Chatzitheodoridis, F ^a   Roukos, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Municipality of Kato Klines   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Herbage; In vitro digestibility; Northwestern Greece; Rangelands

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE;

EID: 57349147236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13329049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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