Adapting a bite coding grid for small ruminants browsing a deciduous tropical forest

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-70

  Gonzalez Pech, P G ^a,b   Torres Acosta, J F J ^a   Sandoval Castro, C A ^a  

^a Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia   (Mexico)

^b Centro Multidisciplinario de Educacion   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bite categories; Direct observation; Feeding behaviour; Goats; Sheep

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900016790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18700462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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