Montane Meadow Plant Community Response to Livestock Grazing
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Montane meadow plant community response to livestock grazing.
We examined long-term (10 years) meadow plant community responses to (1) livestock grazing under riparian grazing utilization limits; (2) suspension of livestock grazing; and (3) meadow site wetness and precipitation on the Inyo National Forest, California. Observed trends in meadow plant species richness, diversity, and frequency of soil stabilizing species were not significantly different bet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Management
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0364-152X,1432-1009
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0294-y