Establishing North American prairie vegetation in urban parks in northern England: Part 1. Effect of sowing season, sowing rate and soil type

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 75-90

  Hitchmough, James ^a   De La Fleur, Marcus ^b   Findlay, Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Heriot Watt University ^*  (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergence; Establishment; Prairie forbs; Soil type; Sowing date; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

LANDSCAPE PRACTICES;

URBAN PLANNING;

PRAIRIE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL TYPE; SOWING DATE; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SHEFFIELD [ENGLAND]; SHEFFIELD [SHEFFIELD (MTD)]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

COREOPSIS; COREOPSIS TRIPTERIS; ECHINACEA PALLIDA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; MONARDA; MONARDA FISTULOSA; OLIGONEURON OHIOENSE; OLIGONEURON RIGIDUM RIGIDUM; POACEAE; RATIBIDA; RATIBIDA PINNATA; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO OHIOENSIS; SOLIDAGO RIGIDA; SPOROBOLUS; SPOROBOLUS HETEROLEPIS; VERONICASTRUM; VERONICASTRUM VIRGINICUM;

EID: 0842306416     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(03)00096-3     Document Type: Article

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