Potential impacts of the invasive exotic shrub Rhamnus frangula L. (glossy buckthorn) on forests of southern New Hampshire

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 277-296

  Frappier, Brian ^a   Eckert, Robert T ^a   Lee, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRANGULA; FRANGULA ALNUS; RHAMNUS; RHAMNUS FRANGULA;

EID: 0141925390     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2003)010[0277:PIOTIE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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