Floristic and soil organic matter changes after five and thirty-five years of native tallgrass prairie restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-196

  Kindscher, Kelly ^a   Tieszen, Larry L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; RESTORATION; TALLGRASS PRAIRIE;

USA, KANSAS;

EID: 0031687761     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1998.06210.x     Document Type: Article

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