Impacts of grazing management options on pasture and animal productivity in a Heteropogon contortus (black speargrass) pasture in central Queensland. 2. Population dynamics of Heteropogon contortus and Stylosanthes scabra cv. Seca

Crop and Pasture Science

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-267

  Orr, D M ^a   Yee, M C ^a   Rutherford, M T ^a   Paton, C J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burning.; Legume oversowing; Stocking rate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS BURNING; DOMINANCE; GRASS; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LEGUME; NATIVE SPECIES; PASTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFALL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED BANK; SOWING; STOCKING DENSITY; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABILITY; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ANIMALIA; HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS; PIPTOCHAETIUM; STYLOSANTHES SCABRA;

EID: 71949123898     PISSN: 18360947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/CP09194     Document Type: Article

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