Plant community responses to disturbance by mechanized military maneuvers

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1533-1547

  Milchunas, Daniel G ^a   Schulz, Keith A ^a,b   Shaw, Robert B ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; LOADS (FORCES); MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY VEHICLES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

MILITARY TRAINING; PHYSIOGNOMY; SOIL TEXTURE; VEHICULAR DISTURBANCE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARMY; ARTICLE; LAND SPREADING; MOTOR VEHICLE; SOIL; VEGETATION;

CACTACEAE; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 0033198666     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq1999.00472425002800050019x     Document Type: Article

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