Desertification and livestock grazing: The roles of sedentarization, mobility and rest

Pastoralism

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Weber, Keith T ^a   Horst, Shannon ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

desertification; grazing; nomadism; ranching; transhumance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975483128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-1-19     Document Type: Review

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