Grazing as a tool to maintain biodiversity of grassland - a review

Animal Science Papers and Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 315-334

  Metera, Ewa ^a   Sakowski, Tomasz ^a   Słoniewski, Krzysztof ^a   Romanowicz, Barbara ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

^b Food Business   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Grassland; Grazing; Herbivores; Landscape protection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78649813574     PISSN: 08604037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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