Interaction of Plant Species Diversity on Grazing Behavior and Performance of Livestock Grazing Temperate Region Pastures
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Crop Science
- Vol. 47 (1), 416-425
- https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2006.01.0061
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