Impact of livestock grazing on extensively managed grazing lands

Environmental Impacts of Pasture-Based Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 122-143

  Schacht, Walter H ^a   Reece, Patrick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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