Catastrophic vegetation shifts and soil degradation in terrestrial grazing systems.

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  1997-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01133-6PMID 21238102
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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