Variation in nutritional values of shrub forages in the pastoral zone of western Australia

摘要

The semi-arid southern rangelands of Western Australia are dominated by shrubs,providing year‐round palatable forage for livestock with seasonal flushes of annuals and biennials.The data presented herein challenge the assumption that nutritional values of shrubs exhibit little variation in time and place (Wilson 1977,Leigh et al.1978).