The mark of zorro: Effects of the exotic annual grass Vulpia myuros on California native perennial grasses

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-17

  Brown, Cynthia S ^a   Rice, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California native perennial grasses; California prairie restoration; Competition; Elymus glaucus; Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum; Melica californica; Nassella cernua; Nassella pulchra; Poa secunda ssp. secunda; Vulpia myuros

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PRAIRIE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

ELYMUS; ELYMUS GLAUCUS; GLAUCUS; HORDEUM BRACHYANTHERUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MELICA CALIFORNICA; NASSELLA CERNUA; NASSELLA PULCHRA; POA; POA SECUNDA; POACEAE; VULPIA MYUROS;

EID: 0034075886     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2000.80003.x     Document Type: Article

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