Comparison of two sampling methods for quantifying changes in vegetation composition under rangeland development

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 537-545

  Laliberté, Etienne ^a   Norton, David A ^a   Tylianakis, Jason M ^a   Scott, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

community composition; monitoring; rangeland assessment; vegetation sampling; visual ranking

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELDWORK; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERB; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOMASS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGELAND; SAMPLING; SHEEP; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

LUPINUS POLYPHYLLUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77957220799     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-09-00156.1     Document Type: Article

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