Grazing maintains native plant diversity and promotes community stability in an annual grassland.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/14-1093.1PMID 26485954
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