Restoring native perennial grasses to rural roadsides in the Sacramento valley of California: Establishment and evaluation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 214-228

  Bugg, Robert L ^a   Brown, Cynthia S ^a   Anderson, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hedgerow Farms   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMUS; BROMUS CARINATUS; ELYMUS ELYMOIDES; ELYMUS GLAUCUS; ELYMUS MULTISETUS; ELYMUS TRACHYCAULUS; FESTUCA IDAHOENSIS; FESTUCA OVINA; FESTUCA RUBRA; GLAUCUS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM BRACHYANTHERUM SUBSP. BRACHYANTHERUM; HORDEUM BRACHYANTHERUM SUBSP. CALIFORNICUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; NASSELLA CERNUA; NASSELLA PULCHRA; OVIS ARIES; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; POA; POA SECUNDA; POACEAE; THINOPYRUM INTERMEDIUM; TRICHOPHORUM;

GRASSLAND; HABITAT RESTORATION; RURAL ROADSIDES;

CALIFORNIA; USA;

EID: 0031392272     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100x.1997.09726.x     Document Type: Article

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