African lovegrass in Australia: A valuable pasture species or embarrassing invader?

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 86-97

  Firn, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS CURVULA; ERAGROSTIS ECHINOCHLOIDEA;

EID: 77949297721     PISSN: 00494763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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