Nutritional constraints for grazing animals and the importance of selective grazing

Grassland Productivity and Ecosystems Services

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 19-26

  Poppi, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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