A narrower gap of grazing intensity. Reply to Fetzel et al., 2017. Seasonality constrains to livestock grazing intensity
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Seasonality constraints to livestock grazing intensity.
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Change Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1354-1013
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13800