Methods for Determining the Nutritive Quality of Range Ruminant Diets: a Review

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• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  Journal of Animal Science

• Publication date

  1982-02-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology

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  DOI 10.2527/JAS1982.542363X
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