A model to detect grazing sensitivity of myoporum platycarpum in the arid rangelands of south Australia

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 587-607

  McArthur, Lynne ^a   Boland, John ^b   Tiver, Fleur ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid rangelands; Grazing; Herbivore; Long term growth rate; Matrix population models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053040906     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2006.tb00195.x     Document Type: Article

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