Promoting kangaroo as a sustainable option for meat production on the rangelands of Australia

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 38-45

  Spiegel, Nicole B ^a   Wynn, Peter C ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kangaroo; Meat quality; Rangelands; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941803741     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2014-0032     Document Type: Article

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