The effects of pasture management practices

The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 291-322

  Schnabel, R R ^a   Franzluebbers, A J ^b   Stout, W L ^a   Sanderson, M A ^a   Stuedemann, J A ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Richard B Russell Agricultural Research Center   (Georgia)

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