A provisional model for smooth brome managemen in degraded tallgrass prairie

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 34-38

  Willson, Gary D ^a,b   Stubbendieck, James ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMUS INERMIS;

EID: 0003235316     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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