Twenty-year changes in burned and unburned sand prairie remnants in northwestern Illinois and implications for management

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-45

  Bowles, Marlin L ^a   Jones, Michael D ^b   McBride, Jenny L ^a  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b Christopher B Burke Engineering Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PRAIRIE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

BRORAUS INERMIS; COREOPSIS; COREOPSIS PALMATA; ECHINACEA PALLIDA; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS PAUCIFLORUS PAUCIFLORUS; HELIANTHUS RIGIDUS; HESPEROSTIPA SPARTEA; POA; POA PRATENSIS; POACEAE; SCKIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUS; STIPA; STIPA SPARTEA;

EID: 0037235423     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)149[0035:TYCIBA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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