Short- and long-term vegetation change related to grazing systems, precipitation, and mesquite cover

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 368-379

  Mashiri, Fadzayi E ^a   McClaran, Mitchel P ^a   Fehmi, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term experimentation; Plant cover and density; Santa Rita experimental range; Seasonal rotation grazing; Semiarid grassland; Yearlong grazing

Indexed keywords

CROP ROTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA RITA EXPERIMENTAL RANGE; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA;

EID: 61949138225     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/07-109.1     Document Type: Article

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