Burning and grazing management in a California grassland: Growth, mortality, and recruitment of Nassella pulchra

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-296

  Dyer, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bunchgrass; Burning; Grazing; Life history; Long term response; Nassella pulchra; Purple needlegrass; Topography

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GROWTH; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECRUITMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

NASSELLA; NASSELLA PULCHRA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0141649139     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.00168.x     Document Type: Article

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