Vegetation response to late growing-season wildfire on Nebraska Sandhills rangeland

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 421-426

  Volesky, Jerry D ^a   Connot, Sherry B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Burning; Herbage standing crop; Soil temperature; Species composition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FIRE; PRODUCTIVITY; RANGELAND;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033849863     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003754     Document Type: Review

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