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Short-term management and stocking rate effects of grazing sheep on herbage quality and productivity of Inner Mongolia steppe

P. Schönbach A E , H. Wan A , A. Schiborra B , M. Gierus A , Y. Bai C , K. Müller D , T. Glindemann D , C. Wang D , A. Susenbeth D and F. Taube A
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A Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding - Grass and Forage Science/Organic Agriculture, Christian-Albrechts-University, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 9, 24118 Kiel, Germany.

B Group Animal Husbandry in the Topics and Subtropics, Georg-August-University of Goettingen and University of Kassel, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 3, 37075 Goettingen, Germany.

C Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, P.R. China.

D Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 9, 24118 Kiel, Germany.

E Corresponding author. Email: pschoenbach@email.uni-kiel.de

Crop and Pasture Science 60(10) 963-974 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP09048
Submitted: 6 February 2008  Accepted: 10 July 2009   Published: 18 September 2009



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