Plant community structure in relation to long-term disturbance by mechanized military maneuvers in a semiarid region

Environmental Management

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 525-539

  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

Diversity; Off road vehicles; Perturbations; Pinon juniper woodlands; Plant community physiognomy; Resistance resilience; Shortgrass steppe; Vehicular tracking

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; COMPACTION; MILITARY VEHICLES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

COVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MILITARY LAND; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ARMY; ARTICLE; EROSION; FLORA; FOREST; GRASS; MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOIL; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

EID: 0034110902     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679910041     Document Type: Article

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