Clipping and Japanese brome reduce western wheatgrass standing crop

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 692-698

  Haferkamp, Marshall R ^a   Heitschmidt, R K ^a   Karl, Michael G ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agropyron smithii; Bromus japonicus; Competition; Defoliation; Northern Great Plains; Pascopyrum smithii

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CLIPPING; FORAGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RANGELAND;

AGROPYRON; BROMUS; BROMUS JAPONICUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; POACEAE;

EID: 0031789570     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003614     Document Type: Article

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