Seasonal diets of sheep in the steppe region of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

• Main Authors: Posse, G., Anchorena, J., Collantes, M.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Rangeland Ecology & Management / Journal of Range Management Archives 1996
• Subjects: tertiary sediments;festuca gracillima;Festuca;tussock grasslands;steppes;steppe soils;species diversity;diet;woody plants;sheep;seasonal variation;Argentina;canopy;forage; Argentina; Hooker; Ice Sheet; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/jrm/article/view/9080

Sheep diets were determined seasonally for large flocks grazing year-round in 2 landscape types of the Magellanic steppe of Argentina. A tussock-grass steppe of Festuca gracillima Hooker f. dominates the uplands of the whole area. On acid soils (Quaternary landscape), woody variants of the steppe pr...