Sampling techniques influence understory plant trajectories after restoration: An example from ponderosa pine restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 504-515

  Korb, Julie E ^a,b   Covington, W W ^b   Fulé, Peter Z ^b  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest ecology; Herbaceous; Methodology; Monitoring; Plant community dynamics; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAMPLING; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

EID: 0345761839     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.rec0170.x     Document Type: Article

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