Effects of seasonal fire, bison grazing and climatic variation on tallgrass prairie vegetation

Plant Ecology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 235-246

  Coppedge, B R ^a   Engle, D M ^a   Toepfer, C S ^a   Shaw, J H ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bison bison; Canonical correspondence analysis; Functional group; Phytomass; Regression

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE; FIRE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAZING; PRAIRIE; SEASONALITY;

UNITED STATES;

BISON BISON;

EID: 0031699478     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009728104508     Document Type: Article

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