Fire and grazing impacts on plant diversity and alien plant invasions in the southern Sierra Nevada

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1355-1374

  Keeley, Jon E ^a,b   Lubin, Daniel ^a   Fotheringham, C J ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliens; Biological invasions; Blue oak savanna; Chaparral; Colonization; Coniferous forest; Elevational patterns; Fire severity; Forest understory; Plant diversity; Sierra Nevada (USA); Species richness; Species area curves

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISTURBANCE; ELEVATION; FIRE MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; POACEAE; QUERCUS; QUERCUS DOUGLASII;

EID: 0346899545     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5002     Document Type: Article

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