Effects of grazing livestock on grassland functioning may depend more on grazing intensity than livestock diversity
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911488116