Stocking rate and riparian vegetation effects on physical characteristics of riparian zones of midwestern pastures

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-128

  Bear, Douglas A ^a   Russell, James R ^a   Tufekcioglu, Mustafa ^b   Isenhart, Thomas M ^a   Morrical, Daniel G ^a   Kovar, John L ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARTVIN CORUH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

cover; grazing; stream bank erosion; sward height

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; BARE SOIL; MANURE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PASTURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL NUTRIENT; STOCKING DENSITY; STREAM BED; WATERSHED;

EID: 84858973308     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00133.1     Document Type: Article

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