ON THE RELEVANCE OF NONEQUILIBRIUM CONCEPTS TO ARID AND SEMIARID GRAZING SYSTEMS

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  1999-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0798:OTRONC]2.0.CO;2
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