Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4393342 Journal of Arid Environments 2012 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Short-term intensive grazing by cattle in winter or summer reduced grass cover. ► Exclusion of winter rainfall reduced perennial grass cover. ► Three successive years of exclusion of summer rainfall killed all perennial grasses. ► Same greatly reduced soil microarthropod abundance. ► Fire reduced perennial grass cover almost equally in grazed and ungrazed areas.
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