Mid-term impacts of excluding large grazing animals on a burren grass/scrubland patch

Biology and Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Deenihan, Aislinn ^a   Donlan, Jennifer ^a   Breen, John ^a   Moles, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

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EID: 69549083507     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3318/BIOE.2009.109.2.107     Document Type: Article

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