A permanent or semi‐permanent field of grass and other herbaceous plants, cropped for hay. A water meadow is grassland close to a river and commonly subject to seasonal flooding. Pasture and hay production are the common uses (Larin, 1965).
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Larin, I.V., 1965. Advances in Pasture and Hay-meadow Management. Jerusalem, Israel Program for Scientific Translations. 479 p.
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(2008). Meadow. In: Chesworth, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3995-9_347
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