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  1. New South Wales Department of Primary Industry, Orange, NSW, Australia

    D. L. Michalk

  2. Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

    Hua Limin & Wu Jianping

  3. Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW, Australia

    David Kemp & Taro Takahashi

  4. Asian Development Bank, Manilla, NSW, Australia

    Randall Jones

  5. Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

    Nan Zhibiao

  6. Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China

    Xu Zhu

  7. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Inner Mongolia, China

    Han Guodong

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Michalk, D.L. et al. (2010). Redesigning Livestock Systems to Improve Household Income and Reduce Stocking Rates in China’s Western Grasslands. In: Squires, V., Hua, L., Li, G., Zhang, D. (eds) Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9622-7_14

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