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Diet Selection by Grazing Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

John A. Milne
John A. Milne
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Pentlandfield, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RF
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Symposium on ‘Diet selection’
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 77 - 85
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1991

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