Canopy cover and herbage accumulation of fourteen grassland species when stocked with chickens

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 727-734

  Breitsameter, Laura ^a   Küchenmeister, Kai ^a   Küchenmeister, Frank ^a   Wrage Mönnig, Nicole ^b   Isselstein, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 84877287389     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2012.0348     Document Type: Article

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