Carrying capacity in arid rangelands during droughts: the role of temporal and spatial thresholds

Assessing the carrying capacity is of primary importance in arid rangelands. This becomes even more important during droughts, when rangelands exhibit non-equilibrium dynamics, and the dynamics of livestock conditions and forage resource are decoupled. Carrying capacity is usually conceived as an eq...

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Main Authors: F. Accatino, D. Ward, K. Wiegand, C. De Michele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731116001531