Short-term grazing exclusion impacts using brush packs on soil and grass layers in degraded communal rangelands of semi-arid South Africa and implications for restoration and pasture utilization
Brush packs from very thorny tree branches were used to simulate grazing exclosures to measure differences in herbaceous vegetation and soil characteristics over 2 years on small ungrazed plots and large continuously grazed communal rangelands on 3 semi-arid soil types [shallow, red stony ground (SR...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales |
| Online Access: | https://www.tropicalgrasslands.info/index.php/tgft/article/view/677 |