title: When does grazing benefit plants?
abstract: Many recent studies have attempted to support the hypothesis that grazing can have positive effects on plant growth and fitness. However, a recent critical survey has shown that many of these studies suffer from poor experimental design, and consequently that the hypothesis may only be tenable under very particular circumstances.
authors.affiliation: Section Research on Natural Environment and Landscape, Road and Hydraulic Engineering Division, Ministry of Transport and Public Works, PO Box 5044, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Verkaar