Timescale of Perennial Grass Recovery in Desertified Arid Grasslands Following Livestock Removal

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2002-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01045.x
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