Effects of grazing by free-ranging cattle on vegetation dynamics in a continental north-west European heathland

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  2000

• Venue

  Journal of Applied Ecology

• Publication date

  2000-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1046/J.1365-2664.2000.00507.X
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