Resilience of Foothills Rough Fescue, Festuca campestris, rangeland to wildfire

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-59

  Bork, Edward W ^a   Adams, Barry W ^b   Willms, Walter D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^c LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Festuca campestris; Foothills Rough Fescue; Forage quality; Precipitation; Production; Resilience

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FORAGE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RANGELAND; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

CANADA;

FESTUCA CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0036461630     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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